Engineering Education
Magazine
In Search of a Strategy
NSF’s “potpourri of programs” to boost diversity isn’t working, a division director finds. BY KATHRYN MASTERSON Theresa Maldonado vividly recalls her first encounter with male dominance in technical subjects. She…
Category: Up Close
The ‘Z’ Factor
A start-up veteran guides researchers’ adventures in entrepreneurship. BY ALISON BUKI Whether surfing, backcountry skiing, hurtling down Los Angeles mountainsides on a bicycle, or launching a start-up, Krisztina “Z” Holly…
Northern Ambition
A Canadian pursues top talent in the United States and abroad. BY PIERRE HOME-DOUGLAS As a crystallographer, Suzanne Fortier got used to viewing the world a little differently from most,…
Not All Black and White
A course probes the gray areas of engineering ethics. BY THOMAS K. GROSE In 1971, the Ford Motor Co. launched the Pinto, a big-selling subcompact with a big problem. If…
The Right Stuff
An engineer-astronaut lends his unique experience to a spaceflight course. BY THOMAS K. GROSE Only about 500 people have had a chance to go into space, so far at least….
Lose The Lectures
A physics professor relies on Q&A, class discussions. As a young physics professor at Harvard in the 1980s, Eric Mazur was certain his lecture-hall classes were a huge success. And…
Geek Girl Pride
BY THOMAS K. GROSE Dinner, IT, and the Y Chromosome London — Five years ago, while working for a healthcare company, software engineer Sarah Blow joined a male colleague at…
A Joint Effort
A professor enlists students to help probe flaws in hip and knee implants. For people with damaged or painful joints, a knee or hip replacement can be the key to…
High Spire Act
BY THOMAS K. GROSE LONDON – British academic and TV broadcaster Jonathan Foyle spent much of this past summer doing a bit of urban climbing – an extreme sport that…
Open Door, Open Heart
BY ROBIN TATU Acclaimed Massachusetts professor assures students they matter. What makes Jeanine Plummer a valued instructor? Consider this: When graduate student Jennifer Griffin signed on to work with Plummer,…