Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
In 1908 a famous Nottingham name took to the city streets for the first time — the brainchild of a local engineer by the name of Thomas Henry Barton, founder of Barton buses.
In 2008, The University of Nottingham is backing a new drive to enthuse more young people about engineering.
As part of centenary celebrations to mark Barton's first service, the University is to run a new charitable fund, set up by Bartons plc, to encourage more young people to study engineering at degree level and take it up as a career. They will be following in the footsteps of TH Barton OBE ( 1866-1946 ) himself, who studied engineering at University College Nottingham — the predecessor of The University of Nottingham — in the 1890s.
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Friday 18 April, 2008 02:18 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
WASHINGTON-Tapping America’s Potential (TAP), a coalition of 16 of the nation’s leading business organizations, and the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation, a coalition of leading business, scientific and higher education organizations, today urged the President and the Congress to include critical funding for science and engineering research, and math and science education in the supplemental Fiscal Year 2008 spending bill that Congress will consider shortly.
“Unless the United States begins to invest seriously in America’s capacity to innovate, U.S. technological and economic leadership will be placed at risk,” said Craig Barrett, chairman of the Intel Corp. and corporate chair of the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation. “America became an affluent nation by building an educational system and a science and technology enterprise second to none. Maintaining these essential building blocks of national prosperity is critical to our future economic leadership and the wellbeing of future generations of Americans.”
“Innovation is the key to economic success in an increasingly competitive world economy,” said John Castellani, president of Business Roundtable, a TAP founding member. “That is true for nations, individuals and companies. It is our obligation to ensure that America’s children and tomorrow’s workforce receive the education necessary to live, thrive and work in our technology-driven society.”
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Friday 18 April, 2008 02:12 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
(Canada) When Robin McIntyre joined Rogers Communications in 1991, her employer was a family-run cable television company.
Today, Rogers is a leading multimedia entertainment provider , a transformation in which Ms. McIntyre has played a significant role.
And in that time, she has worked her way through a male-dominated engineering career to a top position as a regional president. Ms. McIntyre, 45, is responsible for video, Internet and residential phone service in the Ottawa area.
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Thursday 17 April, 2008 02:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
KOLKATA, India - Candidates aspiring for an engineering degree have reason to cheer, as at least 4,000 seats will be added to engineering colleges in the state this year. Around 14 new private colleges have approached the state higher education department and might enroll students after receiving the AICTE's approval. Presently, there are around 17,000 engineering seats and after the addition, the seat count in the engineering category might go up to 21,000.
The Joint Entrance Examinations Board has taken a host of measures to prevent goof ups during this year's Joint Entrance Examination. This comes after the board came under the scanner following the arrest of 21 persons on charges of impersonation.
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Thursday 17 April, 2008 06:01 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) Center of Engineering Excellence was inaugurated by Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, recently.
The new center at the Dubai Men’s College campus is one of several being set up through the higher colleges system of the UAE to serve as focal points for best practices, Sheikh Nahayan said.
“In Dubai and the UAE today, cutting edge engineering projects are distinguishing our progress,” he noted.
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Thursday 17 April, 2008 02:09 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
For years, college campuses across the country have seen fewer students interested in engineering. The same holds true locally. As a result, there are efforts underway to attract more young people to the field , and particularly, more diverse talent. WUWM's LaToya Dennis reports.
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Wednesday 16 April, 2008 06:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
Design Squad(TM) and Engineer Your Life(TM) Resources Make It Easy Design Squad is a powerful way of introducing students to the engineering process .
What do you get when you mix some rubber bands, cardboard, wooden skewers, and blank CDs? Thanks to the Design Squad Educators Guide, you get a racecar-and teachers across the country are using it to have their students engineer the zippiest racecars possible. At the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School in Manalapan, New Jersey, Donna Falk's eighth grade science class is discovering just how fun and engaging engineering challenges can be.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 02:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
Seventeen years ago, on April 10th 1991, a plane landed in John F. Kennedy airport . That plane had just crossed the Atlantic carrying, amongst others, passengers escaping the crumbling Soviet empire. One of whom was me. I walked off that plane with a first ever taste of Coca-Cola in my mouth, a lame teenage mustache, and not a clue about what to expect.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 10:06 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
A few years ago, Ernest Yanful, Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Ontario, thought about future international development issues and the growth of female students in the faculty.
But the ‘aha’ moment where he put the two issues together didn’t come until he saw the commitment of women at an international development conference. Out of that inspiration came a unique civil-engineering program that looks to the future for its success.
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Sunday 13 April, 2008 02:23 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Report from Oxford University’s Dept. of Sociology examines whether engineers are more likely to join extreme Islamic groups
Engineers supposedly have a shared mind-set, one that sometimes boils down to negative stereotypes in the public imagination. Engineers have excessively exacting personalities. They can’t communicate well. They wear pocket protectors. You’ve heard them all before. A much more disturbing glimpse of that shared mind-set recently appeared in “Engineers of Jihad,” an Oxford University study that examines the link between engineers and violent Islamic extremism.
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Friday 11 April, 2008 02:09 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Despite concerns about the UK economy, the majority of engineers remain positive that their businesses will continue their recent growth and output levels
New research from Fascia Graphics reveals that despite the growing concerns around the credit crunch and its effect on the UK economy, the majority of engineers (85%) remain positive that their businesses will continue their recent growth and output levels. Furthermore, more than half (56%) stated that 'more competitive pricing' will be the key driver in ensuring that the UK manufacturing industry sustains stronger levels of growth.
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Wednesday 9 April, 2008 10:24 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
One of the most popular storylines in science fiction is the one about the computer that eventually outsmarts its creator. The machine's maker either comes to a sticky end at the hands of his invention or puts it to work in a plot to dominate the world.
Professor Nik Kasabov, head of the Knowledge Engineering Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) at AUT University, has no fears of falling victim to a silicon-based killing machine - not for another 40 or 50 years, at any rate.
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Tuesday 8 April, 2008 06:11 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
They talk about engine 'decarbs' (overhauls) as comfortably as the latest Bollywood flick. They are equally at ease in both the air-conditioned comfort of their lounges and the furnace-like heat of the engine room. They don't mind the grime and dust or the long, gruelling work hours. They are the women marine engineers who literally rub shoulders with their male colleagues on merchant ships.
Close to a decade after the first Indian woman marine engineer graduated from Marine Engineering and Research Institute (MERI), Kolkata, more than 50 such women are today sailing on the high seas
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Monday 7 April, 2008 06:03 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
An innovative collaboration between the Teaching for Learning Network (TfLN), and the University’s Department of Engineering is celebrating the successful completion of a one-year project to update ‘practical’ teaching in the department.
The new ‘Integrated Coursework’ gives students the chance to work on open-ended assignments in a variety of engineering disciplines, testing the theory taught in lectures and developing the hands-on skills needed by professional engineers.
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Saturday 5 April, 2008 10:15 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
SAN FRANCISCO — Engineers elsewhere apply their talents to the political sphere , but those in the United States, unfortunately, don't--and there are no signs the situation will change anytime soon. The overwhelming majority of American engineers choose industry and business, not government or policy, as their rightful place, even as their counterparts around the globe see no conflict between politics and their profession.
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Saturday 5 April, 2008 02:11 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
For the foreseeable future, the “job of the future” will exist in a world that wrestles with issues of outsourcing, offshore engineering design and manufacturing, and generally uncertain employment prospects. Among the job seekers, aspiring engineers need to develop effective ways of finding and keeping employment in this murky environment.
Guidance is helpful as you ponder the question of where you should be headed in this sea of instability. Today we live at a time when professed experts expound diametrically opposite views and often have the audacity of serving up their views with an air of infallibility. The answer as to where you should head is multi-faceted, but being balanced and learning a marketable skill instead of going after an ill-defined “education” is certainly a good start.
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Thursday 3 April, 2008 10:00 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
Black people are being squeezed out of the engineering field by the Engineering Council of South Africa despite the dire skills shortage in that sector and increasing demand.
These were claims made by civil engineer and chairman of Rakau Civil and Building, Abram Rakau to Business Times yesterday.
Rakau says ECSA deliberately delayed his registration as a qualified civil engineer by over a year.
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Wednesday 2 April, 2008 10:12 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Engineering is important, but putting your money into fine wines sounds like the ultimate win-win investment. If your cases of bordeaux or burgundy appreciate in value, you have made a profit. If their price falls, you can drown your sorrows by drinking them.
In recent years, any drinking done by investors in fine wines is likely to have been of a celebratory kind because prices have risen sharply. A case of 1990 Château Latour, which sold for £370 in 1991, would now fetch about £5,800 - a 1,400 per cent increase. Over the same period the FTSE 100 index of leading UK shares produced a return of only 370 per cent, including dividends. ....click the link to read more
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Saturday 29 March, 2008 06:07 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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During a childhood visit to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., Margaret Anderson caught the space-travel bug. She knew then and there she wanted to work for NASA.
It wasn't just a passing fancy. Now 21, Anderson is a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, working simultaneously on her master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering. And she's living her dream. Anderson is employed at the space agency through a student co-op program and is working on hybrid rockets—experimental power plants that combine solid and liquid fuel technologies to find a cheaper, safer way into space. ....click the link to read more
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Friday 28 March, 2008 06:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Gary Roughead, spoke at the 34th Annual Convention of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) in Orlando March 19. .....click the link to read more
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