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...
View ArticleManufacturers 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...
View ArticleSkills 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,...
View ArticleFIRST 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...
View ArticleUS 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...
View ArticleFIRST 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...
View ArticleComputer 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...
View ArticleFIRST 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...
View ArticleEngineering 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...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleCash 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,...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleFIRST 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...
View ArticleSingapore 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...
View ArticleBest 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....
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleFIRST 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...
View ArticleFormula 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleUrban 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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