Feature: Story Time
Posted on August 13th, 2009 by asee admin
A well-told yarn holds students’ attention and helps them remember what they’re taught. By Alice Daniel
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Feature: Goal-oriented
Posted on July 7th, 2009 by asee admin
Robo-soccer coach, teacher and fundraiser, this Spelman College computer science professor aims high. Can he inspire a black, female Bill Gates? By David Zax
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Tags: Minority Group Engineers, Robotics
Feature: Flight to Achievement
Posted on April 21st, 2009 by asee admin
With cash incentives and coaching, a Texas-based initiative dramatically improves minorities’ success in science and math.
By Margaret Loftus
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Feature: Route to the Top
Posted on April 8th, 2009 by asee admin
A fifth of the top executives at America’s biggest companies are engineers. One reason: Their hardnosed problem-solving skills help the bottom line. By Thomas K. Grose What do Fred Hassan, George W. Buckley, Michael R. Splinter, and David J. O’Reilly have in common? Well, they all breathe the rarefied air of some of America’s most […]
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Special Feature: Route to the Top
Posted on April 8th, 2009 by ASEE
What do Fred Hassan, George W. Buckley, Michael R. Splinter, and David J. O’Reilly have in common? Well, they all breathe the rarefied air of some of America’s most important executive suites: Each is the chief executive officer of a Standard & Poor’s 500 company.
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Report: Technology and Testing’s Future
Posted on January 1st, 2009 by ASEE
Students are growing up in a world overflowing with a variety of high-tech tools, from computers and video games to sophisticated mobile devices. Their schools are gradually following suit, integrating a range of technologies for instructional use. But when it comes to testing students, most revert to an era when iPhones were just a twinkle in some techie’s eye – even though technology can dramatically improve assessment and learning.
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Tags: assessments, Research on Learning
Enzyme Computer
Posted on February 24th, 2006 by csk
Itamar Willner has built a computer that may one day live inside you. Willner, who constructed the molecular calculator with colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, believes enzyme-powered computers could eventually be implanted into the human body and used to, for example, modify the release of drugs to match a specific person’s metabolism.
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Tags: Amazing Engineering, DNA
The Long Road to Recovery for New Orleans’ Universities
Posted on September 19th, 2005 by asee admin
As the flood waters slowly recede from New Orleans, and the city begins to pick itself up from the devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina, four local universities face severe and long-term financial stress. Loyola University, Southern University, and ASEE member schools Tulane University and the University of New Orleans, have all been placed on a watch list for possible downgrade by the Moody’s credit rating agency. With their finances ultimately dependent on enrollments, these universities are unsure whether or not they can hold on to their students, let alone recruit new ones to the city.
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Voices from the Classroom
Posted on May 17th, 2005 by asee admin
Voices from the Classroom allows undergraduate and graduate engineering students to relate their first-hand experiences working in K-12 engineering outreach.
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