Engineering College Central

School Board looking for engineering service (Columbia Daily Herald)
Maury County School Board members are searching for an architect and engineering firm. The board s contract with Brentwood-based SSOE Inc. expires June 30. The school system entered into a three-year contract in 2004 and then executed two one-year extensions.

Moms, daughters discover engineering through robots (Miami Herald)
Miriam Jean, 15, and her mom walked into the classroom, rolled up their sleeves and got right to work. A mother-daughter bake-off this was not. The mother held up a small plastic circuit board, while the daughter used a 400-degree soldering iron to attach a thin wire.

Engineering’s future secure at UW-WC (Greater Milwaukee Today)
WEST BEND – The University of Wisconsin-Washington County s four-year engineering program is still enrolling students in engineering classes for fall, but its immediate future rests with how the state handles its estimated $5.4 billion budget deficit.

Engineering’s future secure at UW-WC (Greater Milwaukee Today)
WEST BEND – The University of Wisconsin-Washington County s four-year engineering program is still enrolling students in engineering classes for fall, but its immediate future rests with how the state handles its estimated $5.4 billion budget deficit.

Funding for New FAMU/FSU Engineering Building Approved (WCTV Tallahassee)
Plans are moving forward for a new state-of-the-art facility at the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering.

Funding for New FAMU/FSU Engineering Building Approved (WCTV Tallahassee)
Plans are moving forward for a new state-of-the-art facility at the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering.

Apple’s New Head of iPhone and iPod Hardware Engineering Starts Soon [Apple] (Gizmodo)
Apple has cleared the way for Mark Papermaster to start working as head of iPod and iPhone development, starting April 24th. The previous roadblock was a non-compete clause from his time at IBM….

Grant helps students get engineering lessons (The Tuscaloosa News)
A federal grant of nearly $3 million to the University of Alabama will help Sumter County schools continue and expand an effort to get students interested in engineering.

UI s engineering receives contract (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
The University of Iowa College of Engineering Center for Computer Aided Design has received a two-year, $375,641 contract from Honda Research and Development Americas Inc. to further develop an intelligent computer manikin.

Pre-engineering classes catching on (The Citizens’ Voice)
When Tyler Vasquez was young, to the chagrin of his mother, he would dig through the recycling bin searching for the good stuff aluminum cans, cardboard boxes and anything else he could turn into a building, bridge or whatever else he imagined.