Engineering Education
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Down, But Not Out
By Thomas K. Grose, Mary Lord and Lynne Shallcross Photographs Courtesy of Jeremy Martin. IT’S BEEN ANYTHING BUT EASY. After Hurricane Katrina pummeled New Orleans in late August, Tulane University…
News - Part 23
A Human Touch
By Lynne Shallcross STUDENTS AT THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES ARE LOOKING FARTHER THAN THE FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM. In the blisteringly hot October heat of Honduras, it wasn’t the…
Circle Of Support
By Margaret Loftus AS ENGINEERING PROGRAMS STRIVE TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN MORE FEMALE STUDENTS, SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES AND SERVICE COMPONENTS ARE NO LONGER THE EXCEPTION-THEY’RE BECOMING THE RULE. Although she excelled…
Doing Time
By Lynne Shallcross ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA ARE GOING BEHIND BARS. THEY’RE TEACHING MATH TO PRISONERS. It’s Wednesday night, time for engineering student Sean Rhea to head to class. But…
The Real World
By Anna Mulrine Cara Stepp is trying to figure out what she’s going to tell the seniors at Smith College’s Picker Engineering Program when she returns for a visit in…
Making It Big
By Corinna Wu Julie Higbee, a senior at the University of Utah, is in a position many of her peers would envy. Months before graduation, she has six job offers—from…
Summer 2005 – Briefings
Tenure – Family Matters Most academics today face family as well as career demands. That’s particularly true of women, and it’s a reason why they are underrepresented in full-time tenure…
American Society for Engineering Education – SUMMER 2005 – VOLUME 14, NUMBER 9
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,…
SEND IN THE ENGINEERS – By Thomas K.
By Thomas K. Grose On the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, a massive earthquake along the Sumatra Fault, lying off the coast of Indonesia, triggered a huge tsunami, the likes…
THE NEXT REVOLUTION – By Lucille Craft
By Lucille Craft BEIJING—As the world’s most populous nation transforms itself from a farming nation to factory behemoth, another drama is unfolding, far from the assembly lines, steel foundries and…