Engineering Education
Magazine
Follow the Evidence
Discipline-based education research dispels myths about learning and yields results – if only educators would use it. OPINION BY SUSAN SINGER & KARL SMITH Last year, the National Research Council…
News - Part 6
A School Of One’s Own
Holly Matusovich worked as a metallurgical engineer until a particularly stressful long-term assignment prompted her to reassess her career and explore education. It took just a few classes at Purdue University’s…
Hardy Perennials
In the summer of 1893, a group of engineering academics took time out from reviewing the showcase of technological prowess at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago to form the Society…
Summer 2013 – Cover Story
ASEE’s founding in 1893 coincided with an era of unprecedented technological progress driven by engineering innovation, entrepreneurship, and invention. Preceding decades saw engineering shift from apprenticeships to classroom instruction, with the…
Summer 2013 – First Look
ROBOTICS Get the Drift Jellyfish may be the bane of beachgoers worldwide, but Virginia Tech researchers have found much to admire —and to mimic. The invertebrates’ very low metabolic rate…
A Researcher’s Fight
A Penn State scientist recounts his ordeal as a target of climate-change deniers. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann, Columbia…
Grave New World
Among pet and wildlife lovers, few topics incite more fury than the use of animals in laboratories. But federal regulators and many scientists agree that mice, along with rabbits, dogs, and…
Dance With the Dragon
A SHOUT OUT at the State of the Union address tells a federal agency its work finds favor at the highest levels. So when President Obama lauded brain research as an…
Alfred Lee Loomis – Scientist of the Day
Alfred Lee Loomis was the last true science buff who never sought to get money for his hobby. He was born into a wealthy New York family in 1887 and,…
Breakthroughs and trends in the world of technology
GLOBAL COMMERCE We Can Dig It Designated as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Panama Canal was the moon…