Maine has a new tourist attraction that’s also an engineering wonder: the $89 million Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory, which arches across the river some 20 miles south of Bangor….
The ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition features numerous professional, educational and networking opportunities. Here are some of this year’s conference highlights. MAIN PLENARY Sponsored by Lockheed Martin Monday, June 23, 2008 8:30…
By all accounts, Katherine Jeffery is a college admissions officer’s dream. The Lubbock, Texas, high school senior excels in calculus and chemistry, maintains a 99% average in physics, and, with…
To most Minneapolis commuters, Wednesday, August 1, was just another day of traffic tedium. The evening rush hour traffic was crawling at its usual glacial pace, the kind of stop-and-go…
BANGALORE, India — To get a feel for the ambition coursing through this country’s high-growth, high-tech sector, take a ride south of here to Electronics City, a 330-acre industrial park known…
Engineers spend more time talking than doing. Success requires social skills as much as expertise. It is astonishing that at the start of the 21st century we still only have…
lan Russell, the chemical engineering professor who heads the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, is an expert in the interconnection of chemicals, biology and materials….
ABOUT PRISM: Prism is the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education, a nonprofit association of more than 12,000 engineering faculty members, U.S. colleges of engineering and engineering technology, corporations,…
BY MARGARET LOFTUS In her office at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., electrical and computer engineering professor Karen Panetta pulls out a stack of engineers’ portraits crayoned by elementary students…
It’s September, the start of the school year, and Dan Moriarty’s engineering students have their first assignment: “design the world’s best organizer.” Working in teams over the course of the…
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