Engineering Education
Magazine
STUN GRENADES + STRANGE BIOFUELS + MEDICAL UAVs
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING STAR TURN The thrill of soaring 541 feet — or 40 stories — is just one of the rare experiences offered by the Singapore Flyer. There are also…
Category: Briefings
Summer 2010 – Briefings
USEFUL TOBACCO + TINY BATTERIES + FASTER BULLETS LASERS Mr. Thousand Points AUSTRALIA – Daryl Tewksbury, who heads New South Wales-based Laservision, says he’s “living proof” engineering can be fun….
Dubai Blues + Lightning Mystery + Seeing Red
GEOTHERMAL TECHNOLOGY HOT LITHIUM TROVE The geothermal wastewaters of California’s inland Salton Sea are awash with lithium, according to a start-up California company, Simbol Mining. And that’s good news, with…
October 2009 – Briefings
MASSIVE BOMB + APARTMENTS AFLOAT + PROSTHETIC EYE SPORTS STADIUMS Fair Catch? The video boards of the new Cowboys Stadium in Dallas loom 90 feet above the playing field, well beyond the…
March 2008 – Briefings
ISRAEL—Few Middle East problems lend themselves to engineering solutions. But visionaries believe one particular project could help alleviate two problems at once. Here’s the idea: Build a canal that can…
Offshore Tutoring + Shrinking Water Supplies + Brain Magnets
Maine has a new tourist attraction that’s also an engineering wonder: the $89 million Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory, which arches across the river some 20 miles south of Bangor….
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….
January 2006 – Briefings
SECURITY – CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU BOOK NOTES – BAD INFLUENCE EMERGENCY PLANNING – EASING THE PAIN OF WAITING AEROSPACE – FLIGHT TIPS FROM A FLY HIGHER ED –…
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…
Nov 2003 – Briefings: Attracting Women in Engineering
Attracting Women to Engineering For years it’s been assumed that young women avoid careers in mathematics-based fields, like engineering and physics, because they lack confidence in their math skills. But…