Reinstated UW Petroleum Engineering Program to Graduate First Students
Just two years after the University of Wyoming reinstated an undergraduate degree program in petroleum engineering, 12 students will receive bachelor of science degrees in the discipline. Commencement is scheduled May 10.
“That (reinstating the B.S. degree) was a good decision,” says H. Gordon Harris, who heads the [...]

The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral [...]

Towards more renewable energy, posted to Google’s blog by Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of Products
Promising technologies already exist that could be developed to deliver renewable energy cheaper than coal. We think the time is ripe to build rapidly on the tremendous work on renewable energy. For example, I believe that solar thermal technology provides [...]

Richard Hoeg writes a blog, works and honeywell and has started an Engineering Learning and Knowledge Support Wiki. His lastest post asks for feedback on engineering knowledge transfer - Knowledge Collaboration, Learning and Web 2.0 … What’s Next?
This is my first serious test of asking a question via Web 2.0. I’ve asked this same [...]

The Google Way: Give Engineers Room
Google engineers are encouraged to take 20 percent of their time to work on something company-related that interests them personally. This means that if you have a great idea, you always have time to run with it.
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These grouplets have practically no budget, and they have no decision-making authority. What they [...]

Worker Shortage Called Maryland, USA Threat by Phillip McGowan, Baltimore Sun:
A shortage of workers with high-tech and other skills needed to fill defense and homeland security jobs threatens not only Maryland’s economic development but also the nation’s war on terrorism, according to a report released yesterday.
The Fort Meade Alliance, a group of business leaders that [...]

On our National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program site we have added a section onprofiles of past NSF Graduate Research Fellows. We started with probably the most famous fellow, and certainly the richest: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin.

“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very [...]

This is our first post on engineering and work (engineers at work). We plan to post on the diverse range of careers engineers take on once graduating with engineering degrees. In this speech Marissa Mayer discusses innovation at Google. She leads the product management efforts on Google’s search products- web search, images, [...]