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Degree Programs Target Supply Chain Management Shortfall

Forget about finance and venture capitalism. One of today’s hottest M.B.A.s is supply chain management. And while it may not sound all that sexy, the long-term prospects for growth in this area, along...

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Manufacturers Open Their Doors to Quash Misconceptions

This Friday, manufacturing and education facilities around the country will be opening their doors to those looking for a career in manufacturing, or just curious to know more about it. Manufacturing...

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Skills Gap May Impact Innovation, MIT Study Finds

The debate over whether or not there is a shortage of workers with engineering and math skills in key industries has taken a new twist, with serious implications for innovation. Researchers at MIT,...

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FIRST LEGO League Week 1: Let the Games Begin

It started with an innocent email this past May. “Information meeting for FIRST LEGO League.” As a parent, I was intrigued. Anything that develops interest in design, science, engineering and team work...

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US Sailing Brings Science and Engineering to Kids

“All sailing is really about science and math,” says John O’Flaherty, executive director of Community Boating Center in Providence, RI. “You’re immersed in it, whether you realize it or not.” To...

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FIRST LEGO League Week 3: Training, Trials and Tempers

This blog series shares the journey of the FIRST LEGO League team Tech Crew as we progress through all that’s required for this year’s challenge, Nature’s Fury. In early October I was just beginning my...

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Computer Science Education Week Highlights Urgent Need

When I was a kid, my father was recognized as Science Teacher of the Year. He ran enrichment programs, shuffling kids onto buses after school and walking them through the local salt marshes, loaded...

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FIRST LEGO League Week 7: A Very Special Team

This blog series shares the journey of Tech Crew, a FIRST LEGO League team competing in this year’s challenge, Nature’s Fury. We are three meetings away from competition. Three. And the team is in its...

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Engineering Schools Fail to Teach Empathy

With its relentless emphasis on technical problem-solving, engineering education may be overlooking something equally important according to a new study. The research, by a Rice University sociologist...

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U.S. Students Fall Further Behind on Global Test

Test results taken from half a million 15-year-olds across the globe once again indicate that the United States has a lot to learn about STEM education. “American 15-year-olds are still well behind...

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Cash Strapped Colleges and Tech Firms Speed Up Deals

Mobile technology seems to change almost as quickly as it’s changing the way the world communicates. The halls of higher learning? Not quite so speedy. So when Motorola Mobility, an arm of Google,...

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New Comic Superheroes Inspire Young Engineers

Who doesn’t like to read comics? Author Jeff Kinney has inspired a whole new generation of reluctant young readers through his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series – graphic novels illustrated with his own...

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FIRST LEGO League Week 12: The Competition

It began like any December Sunday in Minnesota – below zero temperatures and a winter storm warning. The car was loaded with all the parts and pieces, charts, laptops, batteries and snacks to get the...

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Singapore Students Best Problem Solvers

In much of the developed world, demand for workers who can perform routine tasks like bookkeeping or sorting has been declining for decades. Machines have eroded the need for such workers, and now...

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Best Engineering Schools for 2015

A new study from U.S. News rates Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the top engineering school in the United States for 2015, outpacing Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley....

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Is Flipped Learning the Future of Education?

It’s a typical scene in many college classrooms: sleepy-looking students sit at desks—either with a notebook and pen or a laptop—and an instructor stands before them. With the help of either PowerPoint...

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FIRST Robotics Teams Compete at Tech Show

BOSTON—Like dystopian bumper cars, the gangly limbed automatons collide and withdraw as an announcer calls the play-by play with enthusiasm worthy of caged bare-fisted boxing. It’s an odd thing to see...

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Formula SAE Takes Engineering Beyond Theory

Engineering students from all over the world descended on Lincoln, Nebraska’s this past June to put their skills to the ultimate test at Formula SAE (FSAE). A collegiate level design competition...

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Why Pop Culture Needs More All-American Nerds

More nerds. That’s what policymakers say America needs: more people who are good at science, technology, engineering, and math. But a growing chorus of researchers says cultural stereotypes continue to...

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Urban Program Helps Boost Minorities, Women in Engineering

ST. LOUIS—Eric’El Johnson was great at science and math in high school, so you’d think the move to engineering school would have been smooth for her. But two things stood in the way: stereotypes and...

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