Engineering as diplomacy
You cannot look into the eyes of a child who is dying from a disease caused by drinking dirty water — something that rarely, if ever, happens in the United States — and not feel changed. You cannot stand before her parents without thinking, “I’m an engineer. There must be something I can [...]

A recent New York Times articles took another look at the Olin College of Engineering: Re-engineering Engineering
The result is a school with no academic departments or tenure, and one that emphasizes entrepreneurship and humanities as well as technical education. Its method of instruction has more in common with a liberal arts college, where the focus [...]

From the Electrical Engineering focused EEBeat Blog - Surface antennas conform to any shape:
Recently developed Holographic Artificial Impedance Surfaces–or Textured Impedance Surfaces, for short–are surface-coating materials from HRL Laboratories (Malibu, CA) that enable any object to become a Tx/Rx antenna. Constructed of thin sheets of dielectric with small metal patterns on them, the materials have [...]