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In The Family + Starry Night + Lightning Lessons
Want to walk over the Grand Canyon? That should now be possible, thanks to an amazingly engineered tourist attraction scheduled to open in late March, after several delays: the Skywalk….
News - Part 21
21st Century Professor
When Richard M. Felder launched his career as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 1969, he didn’t feel under any immediate great…
LAST WORD: The U.S. Edge in Education
BY RICHARD H. BRODHEAD Years of focus on increasing diversity in our universities has convinced me that elementary school is the time to start building the foundation for an engineering…
JAPAN’S SLOW-MOVING TIDE
BY LUCILLE CRAFT TOKYO Professor Tsuneo Kinoshita holds court in a windowless cubicle that somehow manages to accommodate a clutter of desks, chairs, whiteboards and laptops, not to mention the…
A FUTURE ENGINEER?
BY MARGARET LOFTUS AS a young boy growing up in Cuba, Oscar Garcia loved to tinker with radios, but it wasn’t until he got a toy motor kit for Christmas…
The Plague of Self-Plagiarism
It’s late. The deadline is near, and you haven’t started the literature review for your article. But wait. Your published 2002 article on teleological engineering has just what you need,…
American Society for Engineering Education – OCTOBER 2006 – VOLUME 16, NUMBER 2
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,…
Booting Up
As a freshman electrical engineering student at the University of Texas-Pan American in 2002, Andres Lugo struggled. UT Pan Am is a commuter school with a large Hispanic population in…
Getting in Gear
When American engineers talk about the need for the United States to better compete in the global economy, the discussion almost always centers on two countries: China and India. People…