New research shows that gender disparity in math skills is due to culture, not biology

For as long as girls and boys have been attending co-ed schools, there has been a perceived gender gap in mathematical abilities that has seemingly led to a deficit in the number of women who will go on to study higher [...]

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Last week, novice and experienced scientists alike flocked to Reno, Nevada to participate in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. This event is the largest of its kind, affording millions of high school students around the world the opportunity to compete for nearly $4 million in prizes and scholarships. These young scientific [...]

A team of students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be spending part of the summer designing and starting to build solar-powered pasteurization systems for communities in rural Peru.
The group of engineers, led by Assistant Professor Lupita D. Montoya, was one of four student teams nationally to win a highly competitive Summer Engineering Experience in [...]

At Purdue, engineering looks to future
by Leah Jamieson, Dean of Engineering at Purdue University
A recent report from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching suggests that U.S. engineering schools need to change their curricula and teaching methods from an emphasis on theory to one that prepares students for a changing world filled with new [...]

HP grants aim to redesign college engineering
Aiming to reinvent undergraduate computer science and engineering programs through the use of technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is accepting proposals from colleges and universities for a new grant program called “HP Innovations in Education”–and more than $2.4 million in cash and equipment is available.
The company seeks proposals from two- [...]

Celeste’s Top 11 List of K-12 Engineering Education Programs
1) Engineering the Future (EtF): Science, Technology, and the Design Process is a laboratory course for the first year of high school science, created to help a broad spectrum of students. EtF is a full-year lab course organized around four projects, each of which is divided into [...]

Science and Technology Celebrated in Oldham County
In the early nineties, one man, an inventor by the name of Dean Kamen, set out to solve this problem. Dean founded, FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, an organization dedicated “To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and [...]

Mapping the bottom of Sandy Hook Bay

Rutgers scientists use unmanned vessel to comb sea bottom
Today, REMUS was directed to map several acres of the bay near Fort Hancock and a nearby cove to observe fish habitats. The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, headquartered in Tuckerton and managed by Rutgers, decided to use the event [...]

Last week representatives from Drexel University were able to join ASEE for a brown bag luncheon seminar in which they discussed their outreach efforts to K-12 students and the global engineering community. When discussing their ENGR 280: Introduction to Global Engineering they mentioned briefly a film they show students in the class. The [...]

If you’re trying to infuse snack making with physics’ lessons, this would be the way to do it. You can find the complete instructions and explaination via the instructables website. Or, let a 10 year old demonstrate.