http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand Engineering snacks to whet your appetite Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:12:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en View webcasts of lectures from the Technology, Globalization, and Culture course at Iowa State University (Fall 2007). Lectures include: Jim Duderstadt, President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan on "The Globalization of Higher Education" Newt Gingrich, Author ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/technology-globalization-and-culture-lectures/ Recently, several articles have expressed concern for the low number of women in computer science.  This is nothing new except, rather then blaming male and female stereotypes that may influence female’s decision to go into the field or emphasizing the lack of female professor role models, new ideas are challenging ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/computer-science-a-growing-gender-gap/ According to an article this past January in the New York Times, entitled Global Advances Challenge U.S. Dominance in Science the United States is lagging behind the rest of the world in the development of new S&T talents. Thanks to globalization, Americans have become reliant on “foreign-born workers to fill ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/is-the-us-failing-behind/ Speaker urges revolution in engineering education "America faces the very real prospect of losing its engineering competence in an era in which technological innovation is the key to economic competitiveness, national security and social well-being," said Duderstadt, who is president emeritus of the University of Michigan, where he is a professor ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/duderstadt-urges-revolution-in-engineering-education/ Proposal calls for raising tuition in UW-Madison College of Engineering The proposal, which will go before the UW Board of Regents next week, would eventually raise tuition by $1,400 per year in the College of Engineering. The money would go toward hiring more faculty and improving academic programs. The School of Business ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/higher-tuition-for-engineering-students/ 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. ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/wyoming-petroleum-engineering-program-graduates-first-students/ A Closer Look at Minorities in Engineering “We find ourselves at this moment in history with the number of engineering graduates at one of its lowest levels of the past 20 years, and yet a time when the demand for young people prepared to work in America’s high-technology industries has never ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/minorities-in-engineering/ 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 ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/nsf-graduate-research-fellows/ K-12 Engineering Education This "Engineering the Future" class is one of several efforts across the country to introduce engineering to elementary- and secondary-school pupils. The programs, which are growing in number and in some cases being established on a statewide basis, come in response to countless studies over the years that ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/k-12-engineering-education/ 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 ... http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/engineers-without-borders/