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IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Erico Guizzo |
The Olin Experiment Can a tiny new college reinvent engineering education? |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Prachi Patel-Predd |
From Nerd to Wonk Tired of designing devices that policy-makers will misuse? Go back to school and train to become a policy maven yourself. Of course, there are other options for engineers who want to view the world through a wider-angle lens than the one they got in college. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Tekla S. Perry |
John L. Hennessy: Risk Taker Stanford University's president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online |
Popular Mechanics May 2009 |
10 Future-Proof Jobs You Can Get Right Now From undersea welders to independent video game designers to 3D sports technician, these jobs will be there for the future. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 David Schneider |
Robin Murphy: Roboticist to the Rescue Her intelligent robots help search for victims of disaster. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Katharine Gammon |
Room to Grow -- and Learn For undergraduates who have the opportunity to do high-level research, the experience can be unforgettable. |
CRM May 2014 Maria Minsker |
The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Students Hope Robot Snakes Slither Out of Lab A family of robots that mimic the movement of snakes have potential use in search-and-rescue and surveillance missions. |
National Defense December 2013 Maggie Heyn Richardson |
New Hub For Training Cyberworkers Emerges in Northern Louisiana Louisiana Tech University is a designated Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency and major defense contractors are located at the The National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Cori Vanchieri |
Jo Handelsman: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship? |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Jean Kumagai |
Rensselaer to Require All Engineering Students to Study Abroad A new effort to internationalize American engineering education. |
National Defense January 2011 Cynthia D. Miller |
Defense Department Embraces STEM Education Outreach The Defense Deaprtment hires more scientists and engineers, and sponsors more research and development projects than any other federal employer. |
National Defense July 2011 John Mercier |
The Jobs of the Future in National Security and Intelligence The nation's civilian and military leaders have delivered a consistent message: A highly skilled technical work force is key to national security. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2011 Danielle Reed |
Financial Planning Education 101: 10 Standout Schools A closer look at ten notable schools for with financial planning programs. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Jennifer Demski |
STEM Picks Up Speed The use of authentic scenarios to teach abstract concepts such as constant velocity is helping educators spark student interest in math and science. |
Wired March 2004 Douglas McGray |
The Great Robot Race Unmanned aerial vehicles are for wimps. 20 driverless bots are about to get down and dirty in the Pentagon's million-dollar rumble from L.A. to Las Vegas. Start your engines. |
National Defense July 2009 Edward M. Swallow |
'Project Lead the Way' Key to Future Defense Industry Workforce Maintaining a highly skilled U.S. aerospace, defense and homeland security work force is critical to the nation's security and economic strength, so the National Defense Industrial Association is taking action. |
Job Journal May 13, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Civil & Structural Engineers California's crumbling infrastructure adds to a growing demand for civil and structural engineers. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Neal Starkman |
Problem Solvers US students continue to lag behind the rest of the world in the four core STEM subjects. The answer, many believe, is a practical approach to instruction: project-based. |
Chemistry World March 26, 2015 Mark Peplow |
Thinking ahead Recognizing that a PhD can be a springboard to many different career paths is the first step towards ensuring that science students have every opportunity to succeed. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson |
Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research. |
Fast Company September 2009 Anya Kamenetz |
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is being transformed by a cadre of Web-savvy edupunks. |
Registered Rep. December 19, 2011 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
8 Facts You Didn't Know About the ACT and SAT In honor of test-taking season, here are some valuable statistics to know about the two tests. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 25, 2014 Michael Blanding |
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Hospodor & Hospodor |
Robo-girls Take On the World More than 10,000 teenagers from 344 teams traveled from 23 countries to the Georgia Dome for the 2007 FIRST Robotics World Championship. Seven all-girl teams made the run through the gauntlet of regional championships to be part of the Atlanta group. |
Fast Company Peg Tyre |
The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies In Education Some companies on the list include DonorsChoose.org, Inkling, and Kaplan. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Jones & Aaronson |
Showing Some Class Universities reach out to those affected by Katrina. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
How Music Teachers Got Their Groove Back Music Instruction Goes Digital Carol Broos is on a mission. She is determined to appeal to the estimated 80 percent of students who do not enroll in traditional school music programs -- band, orchestra, and choir. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 John Blau |
Germany Faces a Shortage of Engineers Even loosening immigration won't fill the gap, say experts |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Erico Guizzo |
The EE Gender Gap Is Widening Electrical engineering faces an age-old question: What do women want? |
National Defense May 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Industry, Academia, Government Grapple With Dwindling STEM Workforce The problems associated with a weak STEM applicant pool can threaten national security, some experts have said. In response, industry, academia and the government have funneled millions of dollars into STEM-education initiatives. But the numbers aren't budging. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Steven Cherry |
Robots, Incorporated Microsoft's best and brightest are quietly trying to bring robotics into the mainstream. Good robotics programming is far harder than writing a typical application for personal computers. |
National Defense May 2015 Alan Pellegrini |
Defense Innovation Requires Focus on STEM Education Organizations must look beyond their own walls to support people and ideas that help secure our nation and allow high-technology industries to thrive. One way to do this is through STEM programs. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
From R2D2 to Spirit and Beyond: What's in Store for Intelligent Robots? While we tend to imagine robots in terms of sci-fi adventures and movies, or as legions of automatons replacing human workers in the job force, the truth may be more mundane and less sinister. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Stephen Cass |
Ayanna Howard: Robot Wrangler NASA's twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have already rewritten the book on the Red Planet's history, their amazing discoveries transmitted to an audience of millions. But Ayanna Howard is not content to let NASA rest on its laurels. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss |
Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain. |
National Defense December 2010 Cynthia D. Miller |
JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades. |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Robert Gutnikoff |
Lab on the Move When the high school classroom setting is lacking, enter the mobile lab from the University of Texas -- Pan American, in Edinburg, funded with HHMI grants in 2004 and 2008. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Jamieson & Norberg |
The Mars Challenge Human exploration of the red planet will inspire new generations of engineers |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 |
President's Letter: Critical Thinking Though our efforts to improve the training of STEM teachers and students are modest in the big picture, we hope the work becomes an amplifying mechanism. And with new initiatives coming out of our science education group, we plan to have an even bigger influence on STEM education in this country. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Prachi Patel-Predd |
What's Up, Postdoc? Roughly 28% of all electrical and computer engineering Ph.D.s follow the academic career path, according to a 2003 survey. Here's how to climb the academic ladder. |
Fast Company April 2006 |
Oy, Robot! Are we doomed to some post-apocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Ray Almgren & Mark Walters |
Let the Games Begin The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition leaps onto a new controller platform. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web. |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
National Defense December 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Markey et al. |
The Benefits of Integrating an Information Literacy Skills Game into Academic Coursework: A Preliminary Evaluation BiblioBouts seeks to satisfy student requests for a gaming experience directly integrated into their current coursework. |