Engineering Education
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Grave New World
Over the past decade, the burst of new technologies has been breathtaking—and often revolutionary. Pilotless drones track human footprints to help locate bombing targets. Tiny molecular robots made from DNA seek…
News - Part 8
November 2012 – First Look
SPACE INSTRUMENTATION Heavenly View In the race for sharper digital images, the Dark Energy Camera (right) wins, hands down. The telephone-booth-size digital camera — the world’s most powerful — has…
American Society for Engineering Education – NOVEMBER 2012 – Volume 22 | Number 3
COVER STORY DANCE WITH THE DRAGON Research partnerships grow alongside U.S.-Chinese competition. + BY MARK MATTHEWS GRAVE NEW WORLD Emerging technologies with the power to harm or help pose tough…
Why the Double Standard?
When we urge students to become P.E.’s, we should lead by example. OPINION BY ROB LANG & KIRANKUMAR TOPUDURTI Engineering faculty members often stress to students the importance of a…
October 2012 – First Look
AERONAUTICS Icarus Redeemed Two years ago, the Solar Impulse became the first solar-powered airplane to fly 26 hours nonstop. Now the Swiss-made craft has chalked up another record. This summer,…
Miracle Material
It has been hailed as a wonder material full of suprising, often counterintuitive properties, one of the most versatile materials ever to spring from the engineering lab. Tougher than steel, a…
Bold Experiment
On MAY 2, 2012, some would argue, a new age in higher education officially dawned. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced they would each put $30 million into…
Revolutions
When MIT announced in 2001 that it would put course materials online, who imagined that before the end of the decade, its OpenCourseWare website would draw 15 million visits a…
‘At-Risk’ or Ill-served?
Analysis of a large-scale survey upsets some notions of why students leave engineering. BY ELIZABETH LITZLER AND JACOB YOUNG The drive for improved retention of engineering undergraduates demands a better…
Dream Factory
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button charmed moviegoers with the story of a man whose life unfolds in reverse, from wizened oldster to cherubic baby. The 2008 film, starring Brad Pitt,…