News - Part 13

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It Takes An Engineer

Experience in practice matters more than a Ph.D. in teaching undergraduates. If you want to prepare undergraduates to practice engineering, then most engineering faculty should have significant experience as practicing…

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Lose The Lectures

A physics professor relies on Q&A, class discussions. As a young physics professor at Harvard in the 1980s, Eric Mazur was certain his lecture-hall classes were a huge success. And…

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No-rinse Wash + Sahara Power + Clicker Craze

BIODIVERSITY Deep Beauty More than a spectacle for scuba divers, Jason deCaires Taylor’s underwater sculpture offers a rich environment for restoring coral reefs, the endangered “rain forests of the sea” that host…

Teaching

Great Communicators

+ BY JAIMIE SCHOCK How engineering instructors adapt to the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Eight students are having an animated discussion about automated systems, but the room is…

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Geek Girl Pride

BY THOMAS K. GROSE Dinner, IT, and the Y Chromosome London — Five years ago, while working for a healthcare company, software engineer Sarah Blow joined a male colleague at…

Features

Learning From Disaster

+ BY CHARLES Q. CHOI + ILLUSTRATION BY I-SHAN CHEN The Gulf oil spill holds powerful lessons for future engineers.   On April 20, executives from British Petroleum, which leased…

Features

A Winning Combination

+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE + ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN S. DYKES EPICS draws high school students to engineering through community service. Jessica Roggenbuck is midway through freshman year at the…

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Under Attack

BY DAVID ZAX + ILLUSTRATION BY LUNG-I LO Software engineers range widely across disciplines to unmask and defeat cyberfoes. But can they win?   It’s the nature of wars that…

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A Joint Effort

A professor enlists students to help probe flaws in hip and knee implants. For people with damaged or painful joints, a knee or hip replacement can be the key to…