Engineering Education
Magazine
Building Strategic Partnerships
Engineering schools are banking on entrepreneur programs to help students cash in on their ideas. By Dan McGraw Back in 1995, when Erik Selberg started work on a new Internet…
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Delivering Big Data
+ By Thomas K. Grose When Superstorm Sandy slammed ashore 5 miles south of Atlantic City, N.J., the night of October 29, where and when it hit came as no…
Field Of Dreams
IT WAS A CLASSIC EUREKA MOMENT. Browsing in an antique store on vacation two years ago, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University senior Manu Sharma chanced upon a display of spiraling front-porch adornments…
A Deeper Partnership
It’s a flinty November morning and nearly every second-grade teacher in Harford County (Md.) Public Schools has bundled into a local school to witness a retooling of the district’s science…
Preparing Future Engineers Around the World
Overseas and at home, innovations abound in science, technology, engineering and math instruction. An expanded cover story explores ideas and approaches in Finland; South Africa, Japan, Israel; France; Brazil, China,…
Under Attack
BY DAVID ZAX + ILLUSTRATION BY LUNG-I LO Software engineers range widely across disciplines to unmask and defeat cyberfoes. But can they win? It’s the nature of wars that…
Shoring Up
Federal aid to states and grants to researchers may bring only temporary relief to universities. When Robert C. Holub was installed last October as the 29th chancellor of the University…
Staying on Track
For a number of Daliana Rodriguez’s classmates, first-year engineering presented such “a dramatic change of culture” that they couldn’t cope, she recalls. Jolted by the rigorous lineup of science and…
21st Century Professor
When Richard M. Felder launched his career as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 1969, he didn’t feel under any immediate great…
A FUTURE ENGINEER?
BY MARGARET LOFTUS AS a young boy growing up in Cuba, Oscar Garcia loved to tinker with radios, but it wasn’t until he got a toy motor kit for Christmas…