Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
In confronting the “gathering storm” of declining competitiveness in the global marketplace , policy makers and business leaders often point to the importance of foreign students and international education in boosting both research and the American work force. A new report released on Thursday argues instead that the solution lies at home, “untapped,” waiting for the nation to wake up to the “quiet crisis” of minority underrepresentation in engineering-related fields.
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Friday 2 May, 2008 10:26 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
A TEAM of engineering boffins at Neath Port Talbot College has helped Corus develop a new system for treating water at the plant.
Their creation secured the A-level students runners-up place in the best working model or prototype category at the Engineering Education Scheme Wales Awards.
The students picked up their award at a presentation evening at the five-star Celtic Manor Resort in Newport.
They outclassed teams from nearly 60 other further education colleges across Wales, also coming second in the most commercial potential and the most effective use of materials categories.
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Thursday 1 May, 2008 02:37 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Volume alone hasn’t raised spirits to almost a third of alcohol sales. Sky-high prices and dazzling packaging also factor in.
Not too many decades ago, vodka was a proletarian drink that could fuel a combustion engine in a pinch. Today, vodka is a star in the distilled spirits galaxy, with super premium and ultra premium brands crowding low-end vodkas off the shelf.
Now, the fallen are mighty.
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Thursday 1 May, 2008 06:35 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
Hidden deep inside the jungle-covered carst mountains of northern Laos lies a secret cave city where revolutionary leaders survived nearly a decade of US bombing during the Vietnam war.
Now, over 30 years since the conflict ended, the communist country has opened up the remote wartime hideaway to tourism, hoping to bring development to this explosives-littered and dirt-poor part of the country.
...as an engineer, this type of story alway makes me think about the logistics of having a community of this size exist in these conditions. Simple things like sewage, water and services....
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Tuesday 29 April, 2008 06:39 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
One train leaves Station A at 6 p.m. traveling at 40 miles per hour toward Station B. A second train leaves Station B at 7 p.m. traveling on parallel tracks at 50 m.p.h. toward Station A. The stations are 400 miles apart. When do the trains pass each other?
Entranced, perhaps, by those infamous hypothetical trains, many educators in recent years have incorporated more and more examples from the real world to teach abstract concepts. The idea is that making math more relevant makes it easier to learn.
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Sunday 27 April, 2008 06:01 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the folks at Nemo Equipment beat you to it.
"The strange thing is, people hardly noticed. They'd drive by, maybe look – but that's all," mused Connie Yang, director of engineering for Nemo, which creates a line of backcountry tents in its Factory Street plant. (Passers-by were probably too busy talking on their cell phones.)
This unorthodox trip was made last November by the company's two-person backpacking tent, the Morpho AR, shortly after it made an even more unorthodox car-top trip up and down the airstrip at the Nashua Municipal Airport – all in the name of good television.
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 02:10 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
In July 2007, Professor Helen Atkinson, Head of the Mechanics of Materials Group at the University of Leicester, was awarded the highest accolade an engineer can receive in the UK.
Professor Atkinson, described as among the ‘cream of the UK’s engineering talent’, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of only two women elected last year. The Royal Academy has 1,407 Fellows. Only 27 are women.
She is, of course, thrilled at her election to the Royal Academy of Engineering. “I feel incredibly honoured, but I also see it as a recognition of the teams of people I’ve worked with over the years. I’ve been very fortunate in that respect and I see this as a tribute to them as well as to what I’ve achieved.”
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Monday 21 April, 2008 02:21 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
ICS Penetron International, Ltd. announced their involvement and support of Engineers Without Borders-USA , a non-profit humanitarian organization that strives to improve the quality of life of developing communities worldwide. Penetron, a leading manufacturer in the field of integral crystalline capillary systems for the waterproofing, protection and repair of concrete, has committed its forces to the EWB organization through corporate, chapter and individual member sponsorships as well as material and technical support.
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Saturday 19 April, 2008 10:06 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
In 1908 a famous Nottingham name took to the city streets for the first time — the brainchild of a local engineer by the name of Thomas Henry Barton, founder of Barton buses.
In 2008, The University of Nottingham is backing a new drive to enthuse more young people about engineering.
As part of centenary celebrations to mark Barton's first service, the University is to run a new charitable fund, set up by Bartons plc, to encourage more young people to study engineering at degree level and take it up as a career. They will be following in the footsteps of TH Barton OBE ( 1866-1946 ) himself, who studied engineering at University College Nottingham — the predecessor of The University of Nottingham — in the 1890s.
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Friday 18 April, 2008 02:18 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
WASHINGTON-Tapping America’s Potential (TAP), a coalition of 16 of the nation’s leading business organizations, and the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation, a coalition of leading business, scientific and higher education organizations, today urged the President and the Congress to include critical funding for science and engineering research, and math and science education in the supplemental Fiscal Year 2008 spending bill that Congress will consider shortly.
“Unless the United States begins to invest seriously in America’s capacity to innovate, U.S. technological and economic leadership will be placed at risk,” said Craig Barrett, chairman of the Intel Corp. and corporate chair of the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation. “America became an affluent nation by building an educational system and a science and technology enterprise second to none. Maintaining these essential building blocks of national prosperity is critical to our future economic leadership and the wellbeing of future generations of Americans.”
“Innovation is the key to economic success in an increasingly competitive world economy,” said John Castellani, president of Business Roundtable, a TAP founding member. “That is true for nations, individuals and companies. It is our obligation to ensure that America’s children and tomorrow’s workforce receive the education necessary to live, thrive and work in our technology-driven society.”
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Friday 18 April, 2008 02:12 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
(Canada) When Robin McIntyre joined Rogers Communications in 1991, her employer was a family-run cable television company.
Today, Rogers is a leading multimedia entertainment provider , a transformation in which Ms. McIntyre has played a significant role.
And in that time, she has worked her way through a male-dominated engineering career to a top position as a regional president. Ms. McIntyre, 45, is responsible for video, Internet and residential phone service in the Ottawa area.
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Thursday 17 April, 2008 02:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
KOLKATA, India - Candidates aspiring for an engineering degree have reason to cheer, as at least 4,000 seats will be added to engineering colleges in the state this year. Around 14 new private colleges have approached the state higher education department and might enroll students after receiving the AICTE's approval. Presently, there are around 17,000 engineering seats and after the addition, the seat count in the engineering category might go up to 21,000.
The Joint Entrance Examinations Board has taken a host of measures to prevent goof ups during this year's Joint Entrance Examination. This comes after the board came under the scanner following the arrest of 21 persons on charges of impersonation.
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Thursday 17 April, 2008 06:01 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) Center of Engineering Excellence was inaugurated by Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, recently.
The new center at the Dubai Men’s College campus is one of several being set up through the higher colleges system of the UAE to serve as focal points for best practices, Sheikh Nahayan said.
“In Dubai and the UAE today, cutting edge engineering projects are distinguishing our progress,” he noted.
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Thursday 17 April, 2008 02:09 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
For years, college campuses across the country have seen fewer students interested in engineering. The same holds true locally. As a result, there are efforts underway to attract more young people to the field , and particularly, more diverse talent. WUWM's LaToya Dennis reports.
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Wednesday 16 April, 2008 06:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
Design Squad(TM) and Engineer Your Life(TM) Resources Make It Easy Design Squad is a powerful way of introducing students to the engineering process .
What do you get when you mix some rubber bands, cardboard, wooden skewers, and blank CDs? Thanks to the Design Squad Educators Guide, you get a racecar-and teachers across the country are using it to have their students engineer the zippiest racecars possible. At the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School in Manalapan, New Jersey, Donna Falk's eighth grade science class is discovering just how fun and engaging engineering challenges can be.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 02:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
Seventeen years ago, on April 10th 1991, a plane landed in John F. Kennedy airport . That plane had just crossed the Atlantic carrying, amongst others, passengers escaping the crumbling Soviet empire. One of whom was me. I walked off that plane with a first ever taste of Coca-Cola in my mouth, a lame teenage mustache, and not a clue about what to expect.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 10:06 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
A few years ago, Ernest Yanful, Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Ontario, thought about future international development issues and the growth of female students in the faculty.
But the ‘aha’ moment where he put the two issues together didn’t come until he saw the commitment of women at an international development conference. Out of that inspiration came a unique civil-engineering program that looks to the future for its success.
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Sunday 13 April, 2008 02:23 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Report from Oxford University’s Dept. of Sociology examines whether engineers are more likely to join extreme Islamic groups
Engineers supposedly have a shared mind-set, one that sometimes boils down to negative stereotypes in the public imagination. Engineers have excessively exacting personalities. They can’t communicate well. They wear pocket protectors. You’ve heard them all before. A much more disturbing glimpse of that shared mind-set recently appeared in “Engineers of Jihad,” an Oxford University study that examines the link between engineers and violent Islamic extremism.
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Friday 11 April, 2008 02:09 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Despite concerns about the UK economy, the majority of engineers remain positive that their businesses will continue their recent growth and output levels
New research from Fascia Graphics reveals that despite the growing concerns around the credit crunch and its effect on the UK economy, the majority of engineers (85%) remain positive that their businesses will continue their recent growth and output levels. Furthermore, more than half (56%) stated that 'more competitive pricing' will be the key driver in ensuring that the UK manufacturing industry sustains stronger levels of growth.
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Wednesday 9 April, 2008 10:24 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
One of the most popular storylines in science fiction is the one about the computer that eventually outsmarts its creator. The machine's maker either comes to a sticky end at the hands of his invention or puts it to work in a plot to dominate the world.
Professor Nik Kasabov, head of the Knowledge Engineering Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) at AUT University, has no fears of falling victim to a silicon-based killing machine - not for another 40 or 50 years, at any rate.
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