Engineering Education
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E-Readers US Market
E-readers in the United States for the first time overtook sales of paperback books. They are more convenient and light. Hardcover books and textbooks are beyond e-readers. E-readers for the…
News - Part 15
WHAT’S KEEPING THEM AFTER SCHOOL?
BY MARY LORD Flourishing clubs stress the E in STEM. It’s a Friday afternoon, yet no one in Room 400 at Willow Canyon High School in Surprise, Ariz., is stampeding…
The Place To Go
BY THOMAS K. GROSE Libraries reinvent themselves to serve digital-age students. Libraries – especially those catering to today’s tech-savvy engineering students – are so last century, right? Surely the proliferation…
The Variety of Change
Engineering degree production has increased substantially in recent years. From 2000 to 2008, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees increased by 16, 29, and 51 percent, respectively. A closer look at…
Dubai Blues + Lightning Mystery + Seeing Red
GEOTHERMAL TECHNOLOGY HOT LITHIUM TROVE The geothermal wastewaters of California’s inland Salton Sea are awash with lithium, according to a start-up California company, Simbol Mining. And that’s good news, with…
Asee Today
PRESIDENT’S LETTER Diversity: A National Imperative A broader workforce will benefit engineering and bolster American leadership. BY J.P. MOHSEN On January 12, I attended the Roundtable on Practical Approaches to…
Creative Disruption
If we want more and better engineers, our education system needs a shake-up. Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School has articulated the difference between “sustaining” innovation and “disruptive” innovation:…
Shoring Up
Federal aid to states and grants to researchers may bring only temporary relief to universities. When Robert C. Holub was installed last October as the 29th chancellor of the University…
Opening Minds, Raising Sights
Mentored by technical professionals, girls explore routes to upward mobility. One sunny Friday afternoon, Google engineering manager Patty Legaspi stood before a classroom of girls at Oakland Unity High School…
Those Who Can, Teach
BY MARY LORD Campus centers whet instructors’ appetite for a fresh approach. Think back to your undergraduate days and what drew you to engineering. It probably wasn’t those long lectures…