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Time & Tide
BY DAVID ZAX Rising sea levels wait for no man. Will we be ready in time? Whether or not the end-of-year talks in Copenhagen yield bold global action on…
News - Part 16
SUMMER 2009 – Volume 18 | Number 9
HIGHLIGHTS: A PLACE IN THE SUN SHADOWED BY THE PAST WAY TO GO ABOUT PRISM Prism is the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education, a nonprofit association…
October 2009 – Feature
BY MARGARET LOFTUS ALL IN THE FAMILY To reach the next generation of engineers, involve the parents, too. After participating in a recent K-12 engineering workshop, Emma Sarazin stopped to…
October 2009 – Briefings
MASSIVE BOMB + APARTMENTS AFLOAT + PROSTHETIC EYE SPORTS STADIUMS Fair Catch? The video boards of the new Cowboys Stadium in Dallas loom 90 feet above the playing field, well beyond the…
Open Door, Open Heart
BY ROBIN TATU Acclaimed Massachusetts professor assures students they matter. What makes Jeanine Plummer a valued instructor? Consider this: When graduate student Jennifer Griffin signed on to work with Plummer,…
September 2009 – Feature
BY THOMAS K. GROSE EMERGENCY RESPONSE Crisis engineers bring needed skills and order to disaster zones, easing victims’ plight with water, shelter, and sanitation systems. LONDON — Soon after a…
FLIGHT TO ACHIEVEMENT
BY MARGARET LOFTUS ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX NABAUM With cash incentives and coaching, a Texas-based initiative dramatically improves minorities’ success in science and math. Hintsa Hagos saw his dream of an…
Breaking The Sound Barrier
A Drexel lab blurs the line between music making and listening. PHILADELPHIA – In a windowless lab at Drexel University’s College of Engineering, Assistant Prof. Youngmoo Kim and his students…
HELP! I NEED SOME ’BOT-Y
BY LUCILLE CRAFT Japan’s robots build cars and entertain youngsters. Can they care for the old and the sick? KITAKYUSHU CITY, JAPAN – Earthquake evacuations will never be the same. Meet…