Engineering Education
Magazine
How They See Themselves
BY HOLLY M. MATUSOVICH, RUTH A. STREVELER, AND RONALD L. MILLER Students who identify with engineering persist in the field. Calls for a larger and more diverse pool of engineers…
News - Part 14
Adding Value To Teaching
BY DEBBIE CHACHRA What can we offer that students can’t get online? One of the most profound effects of the Internet is the democratization of knowledge. So why are we…
Code Red Research
Universities’ homeland security centers provide innovation on demand. As a computer-science doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California’s industrial engineering department, Praveen Paruchuri titled his 2007 dissertation “Keeping…
Peril In Small Places
BY CORINNA WU What dangers lurk in our expanding use of nanotechnology? Advertisers have always lured consumers with promises of the latest technology. Nowadays, the terms “space-age” and “new-and-improved”…
High Spire Act
BY THOMAS K. GROSE LONDON – British academic and TV broadcaster Jonathan Foyle spent much of this past summer doing a bit of urban climbing – an extreme sport that…
Hype Or Hope?
BY THOMAS K. GROSE ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN SLEDD A once favored alternative fuel is shunted to the slow lane. Bruce Logan, director of the Hydrogen Energy Center at Pennsylvania…
It Takes A Community
BY MARGARET LOFTUS Role models, peers, and parents are key to a program drawing underserved students into STEM. As a sophomore at Manual Arts High School in South Central Los…
In Their Grasp
BY MARGARET LOFTUS Students with disabilities seldom pursue engineering or science careers. But that may be about to change. Travis Bilbee has always struggled in the classroom. Lectures are tough…
Summer 2010 – Briefings
USEFUL TOBACCO + TINY BATTERIES + FASTER BULLETS LASERS Mr. Thousand Points AUSTRALIA – Daryl Tewksbury, who heads New South Wales-based Laservision, says he’s “living proof” engineering can be fun….