Published by patricia on 22 Dec 2008
HCC expands engineering training (The Pasadena Citizen)
AVEVA has announced that Houston Community College (HCC) is increasing the number of courses, as well as the number of campuses, that provide training in AVEVA s Plant Design Management System (PDMS).
Published by patricia on 22 Dec 2008
UI engineering college gets $899,391 grant (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
University of Iowa College of Engineering researchers have received a three-year, $899,391 National Science Foundation grant to improve water pollution monitoring.
Published by patricia on 19 Dec 2008
School hires engineering company to solve traffic problems (The Malibu Times)
Palm tree fracas addressed; parent volunteer group that planted trees offers to remove but says money and volunteers needed to do so.
Published by patricia on 19 Dec 2008
Schools consider engineering degree (Montgomery Advertiser)
MOBILE — Alabama’s community colleges may offer a new associate’s degree in engineering next fall to meet industry demand.
Published by patricia on 17 Dec 2008
Freshmen swimmers take on engineering (The Daily Iowan)
The Hawkeye swimming and diving program boasts three members enrolled in the College of Engineering. Freshmen Paul Gordon and Tommy Radtke joined junior Laura Mozdzen this year on the team’s slate of Hawkeye engineers, extending a tradition of successful Iowa swimmers in the engineering program.
Published by patricia on 17 Dec 2008
Freshmen swimmers take on engineering (The Daily Iowan)
The Hawkeye swimming and diving program boasts three members enrolled in the College of Engineering. Freshmen Paul Gordon and Tommy Radtke joined junior Laura Mozdzen this year on the team’s slate of Hawkeye engineers, extending a tradition of successful Iowa swimmers in the engineering program.
Published by patricia on 16 Dec 2008
Ala. community colleges may offer new associate engineering degree (NBC 13 Birmingham)
Alabama s community colleges may offer new associate s degree in engineering next fall to meet industry demand. Figures from Gov. Bob Riley s Office of Workforce Development show that Alabama needs 1,100 new engineers a year. Alabama Community College System Chancellor Bradley Byrne recently organized a meeting among deans at some of the state s four-year and two-year colleges to come up with a …
Published by patricia on 16 Dec 2008
Summit Promotes Engineering (R News)
Biomedical Engineering is a major and expanding industry. Students can learn the discipline at the University of Rochester and RIT. A summit at the U of R was aimed at encouraging interest among high school students and connecting college graduates to some cutting edge local jobs.
Published by patricia on 12 Dec 2008
Reading, writing and rockets: Andover students the only ones in state to all be offered engineering classes (The Eagle-Tribune)
ANDOVER Launching bottle rockets 250 feet into the air and taking apart windup toys to see how they work are not typical classroom activities. But that is what’s happening under the direction of Laurie Farrell at Wood Hill Middle School.
Published by patricia on 12 Dec 2008
Applications for engineering degrees are up – but don’t celebrate just yet, write Jessica Shepherd and Peter Kingston (Guardian Unlimited)
The number of students applying for degrees in engineering and technology has risen by 7% in the last five years. So said the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB) yesterday. And so far, so good. UK plc needs engineers more than ever to, among many other things, secure our supply of energy, boost our production of biofuels, and switch to identity cards. But let’s just take a “reality …