Engineering Education
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Jee Selects: The “Random Madness” of Work
Engineers spend more time talking than doing. Success requires social skills as much as expertise. It is astonishing that at the start of the 21st century we still only have…
Category: Teaching Toolbox
The Plague of Self-Plagiarism
It’s late. The deadline is near, and you haven’t started the literature review for your article. But wait. Your published 2002 article on teleological engineering has just what you need,…
Bioboom
By Margaret Loftus BIOENGINEERING HAS BECOME ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING MAJORS. When the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) started accepting applications last year for its brand-new bioengineering undergraduate program, it…
The Real Test
– BY ANNA MULRINE The ABET visits were a huge success at your school but now that they’re over, how do you put continuous improvement into practice? ABETvisits have never…
On Campus – New Solutions for Old Bridges
By Barbara Mathias-Riegel It’s a good thing the civil engineering lab at Bucknell University is a substantial size, because in it sit two 36-foot round logs cut from 60-foot used…
All Things Great And Small
It’s sometime in the not-so-distant future. Scientific advances have made it possible to genetically engineer embryos in laboratories. Any disease can be eradicated, as can other “defects,” such as a…
A Joint Venture in the Classroom
By Penny Hirsch and Barbara Swom When first-year Northwestern University students Eric Yang, Anita Patel, Liao Chang, and Antonella Lostumbo asked for a critique of their design project–a new feeding…
Sep 1999 – Teaching Toolbox: Calendar
September 8–10 Civil Engineering Learning Technology Conference, Cardiff University, Wales. Contact Cherrie Summers, e-mail: summersc@cardiff.ac.uk ; or see www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/engin/celtic . 16–17 1999 Manufacturing Accreditation Workshop, St. Louis. Sponsored by the…