Engineering Education
Magazine
Get Fracking
+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE + PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK OVASKA/REDUX Engineers stoke the natural-gas boom – and investigate its risks. Beneath the headline “Good News About Gas,” Massachusetts Institute of…
News - Part 12
Seeing And Doing
+ BY MARY LORD + ILLUSTRATION BY MARK MCGINNIS Revamped curricula show freshmen what it means to be an engineer. Stephen Belkoff couldn’t get his first-year students to grasp the importance…
Letter From The President: Let’s Become the Voice of Engineering Education
Faculty and policymakers should be asking, “What does ASEE think?” By Don P. Giddens ASEE is a complex organization with many stakeholders, all pursuing our common objective of educating the…
This Time, Let’s Make Progress
OPINION BY BEVLEE WATFORD ASEE has a new chance to promote diversity. While my husband and I were building a home, we used to visit the construction site on weekends…
Summer 2011 – Feature
+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE What wows the Facebook generation? It’s not exactly thermodynamics, but clearly some engineering faculty know how to transfer their energy and wisdom into cool classes that…
Whet Their Appetite
Down-to-earth illustrations – like an exploding sausage – are among techniques shown to stimulate learning and student retention. Casting about for everyday examples to drive home a thermodynamics principle,…
The Interdisciplinarian
NSF’s director wants to tear down barriers to research collaboration. To understand Subra Suresh’s vision for the National Science Foundation, it helps to know the intent behind a sleek new…
Profile – Keeping Up With Anita Jones
From Texas techie to Defense Department dignitary, the life and times of an engineering powerhouse. By Joannie M. Schrof Anita Jones is one of those people you just have to…
Engineering Trumps Science
Design details and urgent problem-solving, not study, save the day. The day after 33 Chilean miners were brought safely to the surface after being trapped underground for 70 days, a…
Preparing Future Engineers Around the World
Overseas and at home, innovations abound in science, technology, engineering and math instruction. An expanded cover story explores ideas and approaches in Finland; South Africa, Japan, Israel; France; Brazil, China,…