Tag: Engineering
Electric planes are coming: Short-hop regional flights could be running on...
Gökçin Çınar, University of Michigan
Electric planes might seem futuristic, but they aren’t that far off, at least for...
Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women
Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Despite various efforts to encourage...
Future engineers need to understand their work’s human impact – here’s...
Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego
Engineers spend much of their time absorbed in the technical aspects of problems, whether they’re designing the...
Stereotypes about girls dissuade many from careers in computer science
Allison Master, University of Houston; Andrew N. Meltzoff, University of Washington, and Sapna Cheryan, University of Washington
Stereotypes about...
Trailblazing women who broke into engineering in the 1970s reflect on...
Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University
Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated...
COVID-19 has spurred investments in air filtration for K-12 schools –...
Mark Thomas Hernandez, University of Colorado Boulder
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought increased attention to indoor air quality and...
Fish fins are teaching us the secret to flexible robots and...
Francois Barthelat, University of Colorado Boulder
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Florida condo collapse – searching for answers about what went wrong...
Norb Delatte, Oklahoma State University
The collapse of a huge condominium building near Miami, Florida was shocking news to...
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Amy Dacey, American University
With the U.S. presidential election rapidly approaching at a time of extraordinary political and social disruption, the possibility of an unclear...
