Engineering Education and Careers
In this blog, Test & Measurement World contributing editors comment on the state of engineering education and careers for recent engineering graduates.
Space design challenge 2011
2011 will ring in another year for a NASA space design competition. For students who wish to help further space exploration and development, ASA is searching for college and graduate level students In the US who are interested in devising technology for the 2011 Space Tech Engineering Design Challenge. ASA has requested that those who have competed in other NASA contests, such as Lunabotics or RAS ...... Read More
Comments (1)Researchers want to know how engineers think
53 engineering educators will come together on December 13 to participate in the upcoming National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education program. The goal of the symposium is to focus on ways to ensure that students are learning the necessary fundamental engineering skills to become an effective engineer or engineering researcher. Shane Brown, an assistant professor fr ...... Read More
Comments (8)Students engineer independence
This could very well be the most stressful point in the semester for most students. Preparing for presentations, researching for final projects, and struggling to deliver quality work to achieve that ‘A’ can be altogether daunting. For one engineering class, getting an ‘A’ is not exactly what’s most important this semester. Students in one University of Colorado ...... Read More
Comments (1)Engineering class strives for professionalism
For most graduating engineering students, post-college can often seem overwhelming and even frightening. Yet, one Penn State Professor aims to educate students on developing skills to assertively dive into the job market. Anita Persaud, associate director of the Multicultural Engineering Program at Penn State has created the class, ENGR 497G: “Career Development Seminar,” with the go ...... Read More
Comments (8)Laser camera sees around corners
If you could tell me that you could see what’s coming around the corner, I would say you have psychic powers. Yet, Professor Ramesh Raskar, head of the Camera Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab, would say you have a new camera. A group of students from the MIT Media Lab and Raskar have developed a camera that can literally take pictures of something, or someone that’s hidden rig ...... Read More
Comments (6)Students discover engineering
At a time when there is an increasing shortage of engineers, several government organizations, universities, and engineering magnet high schools have partnered to respond to the nation’s need for technical leaders. A program called Discover Engineering; a one-day satellite event for the USA Science and Engineering Festival that motivates students to pursue an engineering career, has taken p ...... Read More
Comments (2)Ecocar: reaching out
How informed are you about sustainable mobility? How about sustainability in general? These are the types of questions Jennifer Spector, Outreach Coordinator for the RHIT (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) Ecocar team, aims to address as she strives to promote what her team has been involved in for the past three years. This year, Spector has been devoted to creating a consumer campaign in orde ...... Read More
Comments (1)Now you see me...now you don't!
Want to disappear for a little while? No, I’m not offering to take you on vacation or anything like that. Perhaps though, if you ask the researchers from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who developed the material, dubbed Metaflex, they could in fact make you disappear—literally! In a paper published in the November 4 issue of the New Journal of Physics, researchers Andrea D ...... Read More
Comments (2)EcoCar: A happy team is a productive team
With the final year of the EcoCar Challenge, brings the excitement of the final production of the Rose-Hulman team’s vehicle. The team, consisting of five team leaders, two graduate students, and 32 members all together, are in the optimization stage of the competition. Last year, Rose-Hulman was one of only five teams to be running a full hybrid vehicle with engine and electrical, but unfo ...... Read More
Comments (0)EcoCar: Fall Workshop and the Rose-Hulman Team
For the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology team, the long anticipated final year of the EcoCar Challenge has arrived. Rose-Hulman as well as other teams competing in the challenge came together for the Fall Workshop sponsored by MathWorks in Natick, MA. On September 30, 2010 we met with some of the team members from Rose-Hulman, as well as Paul Smith from MathWorks, to catch up with them on the p ...... Read More
Comments (1)Medical mirror measurements
Can you say that five times fast? A student from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is working on a system that could measure health indicators by putting a person in front of a low-cost camera. Instead of being poked and prodded by your doctor when you are feeling like the stuff on the bottom of your shoe, you could potentially sit in front of a mirror or a laptop Web cam to h ...... Read More
Comments (0)Mind reading headset
With a click of a mouse or a tap of a screen, this blog appears before you. The machine readily responds to physical touch or mechanical commands. Now, imagine simply staring at your computer or phone, envisioning a song to change, or your email to appear, and in a matter of seconds, it does. This is exactly what Tan Le, the co-founder and president of Emotiv Systems has in mind with her breakthro ...... Read More
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