Engineering College Central

KCC, WMU sign engineering degree agreement (Battle Creek Enquirer)
A joint admissions program approved today by Kellogg Community College and Western Michigan University will allow local engineering students to pursue an associate s degree and a bachelor s degree at the same time.

School Page: Engineering for elementary schoolers (Naples Daily News)
There are little Einsteins at Laurel Oaks Elementary School. Sitting on the floor next to a wood meter stick, fifth-graders Briana Reynolds, Camila Blair and Kailee Carroll worked on a driving with energy experiment by testing the potential and kinetic energy of a wind-up toy car. Camila, 11, held a red toy car next to the meter stick.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.