Engineering Education
Magazine
An Earth Friendly Curriculum
– By Linda Creighton Schools are broadening their coursework to teach students the environmental consequences of the products they’ll create. Starting the day with a glass of orange juice is…
Category: Teaching
WOW the Audience
Lisa D. Bullard, director of undergraduate studies in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU), spent nine years working for Eastman Chemical Co. So…
The 24/7 Tutor
An original dynamics course brings engineering under the big top. Teetering on a narrow metal bar 30 feet from the floor, AnnMarie Thomas lets go of the support ropes and…
The 24/7 Tutor
+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE Interactive courseware guides students through Statics at their own pace. Many engineering educators are embracing research-proven active-learning techniques — hands-on activities and in-class demonstrations…
Deadly Ingredients
+ BY MARGARET LOFTUS Industry internships can boost students’ skills and confidence – and keep them in engineering. Starting that first job out of college can be nerve-racking, but newly…
Low Cost, High Impact
+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE Student teams devise health technologies for $2-a-day populations. In many poor, rural areas of the world, scourges like malaria, HIV/AIDS, and malnutrition are endemic. Blood…
Rules For Rookies
A survival guide for new faculty members Starting your first university teaching job can feel a lot like groping in the dark. Just ask Stephan Durham and Wes Marshall, who…
Great Communicators
+ BY JAIMIE SCHOCK How engineering instructors adapt to the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Eight students are having an animated discussion about automated systems, but the room is…
WHAT’S KEEPING THEM AFTER SCHOOL?
BY MARY LORD Flourishing clubs stress the E in STEM. It’s a Friday afternoon, yet no one in Room 400 at Willow Canyon High School in Surprise, Ariz., is stampeding…
The Place To Go
BY THOMAS K. GROSE Libraries reinvent themselves to serve digital-age students. Libraries – especially those catering to today’s tech-savvy engineering students – are so last century, right? Surely the proliferation…