Engineering Education
MagazineNews - Part 25
Jolly Good Fellow
By Thomas K. Grose Noel Sharkey’s academic career path has crisscrossed an impressive range of disciplines: engineering, computer science, philosophy, and psychology, among them. But it’s for his work in…
Revolutionary Approach
By Stephen Budiansky TO BUILD THE NEXT GENERATION OF UNMANNED FIGHTERS, BOEING AND NORTHRUP GRUMMAN ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH A NEW DESIGN PROCESS: SPIRAL DEVELOPMENT. Vehicles that guide themselves without human…
The Cheating Culture
By Jeffrey Selingo CHEATING IS ON THE RISE, BUT MANY PROFESSORS ARE RELUCTANT TO CONFRONT DISHONEST STUDENTS BECAUSE IT’S TOO DIFFICULT TO PROSECUTE THEM. Last spring, John K. Schueller, professor…
A World-class Act
By Thomas K. Grose ENGINEERING STUDENTS ARE TRAVELING FAR AND WIDE TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF SOME OF THE WORLD’S POOREST COMMUNITIES. LAST JANUARY, Dale Meck, then a senior civil…
Expanding the Mind
BY DAN MCGRAW The cliché of creative scientists has been put forth throughout history—the Einsteinian wild hair, locked in a room for days at a time, mumbling to themselves, not…
From daVinci to the Classroom
Expanding the Mind Creativity is such an integral part of being an engineer, but how on Earth do you teach it? by Dan McGraw Illustration by Alicia Buelow Pure Motion…
Turned on to Technology
High School Goes High Tech Until recently, high schools that catered to students gifted in math and science were few and far between, but now they’re popping up all over…
Apr 2004 – On Campus
THE WRITE STUFF Engineering students can’t write. This truism is proven wrong with every new issue of illumin online magazine (http://illumin.usc.edu). Put out by the University of Southern California, the…
Toys that Teach
By Anna Mulrine Sherra Kerns recalls the day her daughter, then 6 years old, came to her one Saturday to say she wanted to get something from the top shelf…