Posts Tagged ‘Engineers’

$10M Engineering Center Launched

Monday, July 25th, 2011

NSF Awards $10 Million Grant to Stanford University to Launch National Center to Educate Entrepreneurial Engineers Next generation of engineers will combine innovation and entrepreneurial know-how with technical skills to power the nation’s growth The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to launch a national center for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship [...]

Modern Marvels

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Hail the Nation’s Top Mechanical Engineers   The next time you’re riding in a plane, train or automobile, the next time you’re popping in a piece of toast, microwaving a pizza or brewing coffee, the next time you fire up a laptop, gas grill or lawnmower, thank a mechanical engineer. We rely on the problem-solving [...]

Making Sweet Music with a New Lyre

Friday, June 4th, 2010
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Forgive Clint Downey and Jackson Cover for tooting their own horns these days. As freshmen at the University of Iowa, they play the trombone and trumpet in the Hawkeye Marching Band, while pursuing engineering degrees. They’re already well versed in engineering, thanks to Project Lead The Way (PLTW) courses they took at Jefferson High School in [...]