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August 2008
What are the grand challenges for engineers? This NAE report states that "great challenges and opportunities remain to be realized,
and while some seem clear, many others are indistinct and many more surely lie beyond most of our imaginations." With this resource you can "...begin engineering a path to the future."
August is National Water Quality Month. Visit our educational resources in water quality engineering.
July 2008
Want to attract young people to engineering? The recently released
NAE report, Changing the Conversation, recommends
encouraging them to make a difference in the world, rather than emphasizing the challenge of math and science skills.
In July of 1790, the first U.S. patent
was issued to Samuel Hopkins. Check out our
resources in entrepreneurship, invention and creativity to spark your imagination...
June 2008
Join the American Society for Engineering Education in Pittsburgh, PA, for the 115th Annual ASEE Conference & Exposition! June 22-25, 2008.
May 2008
May is Asian Pacific Heritage Month. In honor of this year's celebration, consider the art of origami for your next engineering endeavor.
Whether origami is an indigenous Japanese craft, or if it arose earlier in China, it is the Japanese form of paper folding that is best known today.
For centuries, it was a modest domestic decorative craft, but today, the techniques of origami can also help engineers improve everything from maps and camping gear to airbags and space telescopes.
See our origami engineering resources, as well as those on
Asian American engineers and scientists.
The
2008 EPICS Conference on Service-Learning in Engineering and Technology
will be held at Purdue University, May 20-22.
April 2008
April is Service Learning Month and registration is open now for the
2008 EPICS Conference on Service-Learning in Engineering and Technology!
The conference will be held at Purdue University, May 20-22. Contact National EPICS Coordinator Natalie Kubat with any questions.
Visit our blog to have a look at the ideas for our site redesign
and the images submitted to our photo contest - then tell us what you think!
March 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan
and Dr. Lawrence E. Carlson,
recipients of the NAE
2008 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for
their creation of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
2008 Gordon Prize Winners
March is Women's History Month. Check out our gender equity and
Women in Information Technology resources.
Read and comment on the
National Academies' Beyond Bias and Barriers report.
ASEE's Engineering Research Council Summit is March 16-18.
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance 12th Annual Meeting is March 20-22.
February 2008
Engineers Week is February 17-23. Events and contests abound, as do outreach programs such as
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on the 21st. Engineers Make a World of Difference!
Congratulations to Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan
and Dr. Lawrence E. Carlson,
recipients of the NAE
2008 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for
their creation of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
January 2008
It's a new year, so check out our new resources for new ideas, innovations, and inspiration.
Call for Submissions 2008 Premier Award: Have you developed high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education? We want to see it! Submissions to the Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware competition are due July 11. Winners will be announced at the Frontiers In Education Conference, October 22-25.
December 2007
December is the month for giving gifts. Bloggers and retailers have rushed to round up the best products and services to green the holiday shopping frenzy.
You can engineer green all year round! See our related educational resources on green design,
manufacturing and sustainability.
November 2007
The
2007 Recipients of the 2007 Bernard M. Gordon Prize are Mr. Harold S. Goldberg, Mr. Jerome E. Levy and Dr. Arthur W. Winston "for the development of a multi-disciplinary graduate program for engineering professionals who have the potential
and the desire to be engineering leaders."
Log in and enter our Engineering Photo Competition.
Submission deadline has been extended to November 9th, and winning entries will be featured on the Engineering Pathway home page in late November.
October 2007
October 4th marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik
and the birth of the space age. View our Sputnik resources, as well as related resources in Aerospace Engineering.
Browse our collection of
resources about and for Hispanic engineers and scientists and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, which began in September and continues through mid-October.
The Engineering Pathway has teamed up with
JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society) to feature a K-12 resource every month in the
Pre-Engineering Times newsletter. The resource highlighted this month is Manufacturing Technologies:
Making a Picture Frame, a TeachEngineering resource that complements the feature article "Automation Engineers Control the World".
The recipient of the IEEE Education Society's 2007 Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award was recently announced;
Bonnie Heck Ferri was honored at FIE.
The Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware goes to
Arcade: Interactive Non-linear Structural Analysis and Animation, by Kirk Martini of University of Virginia. The Finalist Candidates awarded this year are
Jeliot 3 and JFLAP.
Congratulations to all!
September 2007
Seven Latin American countries mark their anniversary of independence this month. Browse our
collection of
resources about and for Hispanic engineers and scientists and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, beginning September 15.
September also hosts National Manufacturing Week.
Check out our Manufacturing Engineering Education Disciplinary site and
related educational resources.
The International Conference on Engineering Education
will be hosted this month in Portugal.
Get ready, the Premier Award is coming soon!
The Premier Courseware of 2007 will be announced at the Frontiers in Education Conference, October 10-13.
August 2007
Engineers must discover clues to the collapse of the Minneapolis bridge, and learn lessons to prevent similar incidents. Our
related resources on bridge failures, safety and design include the Online NewsHour interview
with Anthony Ingraffea and his Cooper River Bridge Case Study.
August is National Water Quality Month. Visit our educational resources in water quality engineering.
July 2007
In July of 1790, the first U.S. patent
was issued to Samuel Hopkins. Check out our
resources in entrepreneurship, invention and creativity to spark your imagination...
June 2007
2007 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 24-27, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii
Check Out the EP Workshop at ASEE!
May 2007
May is Asian Pacific Heritage Month. Engineering Pathway honors Duy-Loan T. Le as
a recipient of the Anita Borg Institute 2007 Women of Vision Award for Leadership.
Engineering Projects in Community Service for all levels of engineering education will be discussed at the
2007 EPICS Conference to be held
May 22-24 at the University of California, San Diego.
Give the National Academy of Engineering YOUR feedback on its research to identify messages
to better communicate with the public about engineering.
See study results and provide your input.
April 2007
April is Service Learning Month. Check out our
resources on Community Service Learning in Engineering.
Register Today! "Teach Engineering," an NSDL/ NSTA Web Seminar to be held on April 10, 2007,
will help you create more dynamic and interactive lessons through the real-world application of science and mathematics in your K-12 classroom!
Celebrate Earth Day, April 22, by using our
Green Design, Manufacturing and Sustainability resources.
March 2007
March is Women's History Month. Check out our gender equity and
Women in Information Technology resources.
Read and comment on the
National Academies' Beyond Bias and Barriers report.
ASEE's Engineering Research Council Summit is March 11-13.
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Meeting is March 22-23.
February 2007
February is Black History Month.
Browse our collection of related resources.
The AAAS Annual Meeting will be held February 15 - 19.
NSDL and its Pathway Partners will present workshops
for College and University Faculty and for K-12 Educators.
Engineers Make a World of Difference!
Engineers Week is February 18-24.
January 2007
Submit your courseware to the 2007 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education!
Please review the general, eligibility and
submission information.
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