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Sally Ride , America’s first woman astronaut, has emerged as one of the nation’s leading proponents of science education - particularly for middle-school girls. Dr. Ride’s journey from a high school tennis player to NASA celebrity involved a lot of math. After earning much deserved fame and relative fortune from her space endeavors, Ride directed her attention to what she sees as a national crisis: a dearth of female students pursuing science and engineering careers. |
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Thursday 13 August, 2009 03:29 PM |
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Leaving Cert results show Ireland is failing at maths and science, skills that are vital for future jobs
Much has been written about Ireland's competitiveness issues in terms of costs, especially around salaries and electricity. |
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Thursday 13 August, 2009 10:28 AM |
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Prizes are enduring tools that remain surprisingly powerful in their ability to benefit society. They often drive change and are often the singular spur that produces revolutionary solutions. |
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Sunday 26 July, 2009 06:19 PM |
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How to create motivation when an overwhelming 85% of kids aged 8-17 said they are not interested in a future engineering career for several reasons, according to surveys of youth and adults by Harris Interactive on behalf of American Society for Quality (ASQ). The ASQ survey’s goal was to provide a better understanding about the perceptions of selecting an engineering career in light of a troubling shortage of U.S. engineers, which will reach 70,000 by 2010 based on an estimate by the National Science Foundation. |
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Sunday 26 July, 2009 10:10 AM |
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Yesterday , I watched my 85-year-old uncle cut up a cheap tarp to make seat covers for some wet chairs at a outdoor family gathering. He went about the task like the engineer he has always been, measuring twice and cutting once.
It’s been said writing, reading and projects like this keeps the mind sharp in old age. Besides clean living, a doer mentality and good genes, I wondered if his chosen profession of civil engineering has contributed to his mental acuity and overall well-being. He has always timed his hamburgers on the grill with a stopwatch. It’s the same with boiling lobsters. He’s was a master of the slide rule before calculators. As a B-24 navigator in WWII, he often got his crew safely back to base using celestial navigation. |
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Monday 20 July, 2009 06:37 PM |
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The 2012 Olympic Games is helping to improve the engineering design sector, it has been suggested.
Mike McNicholas, Atkins' project director for London 2012, told journalists at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games that those in design engineer jobs are earning an improved reputation. |
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Thursday 9 July, 2009 10:53 AM |
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Yet another shocking revelation about the Australian submarine force is the fact that the cooks onboard these boats make more (about $160,000 a year) than some admirals. It's all about morale, which is very important on submarines. A major component of good morale in all navies is the food, and this is particularly true on submarines. |
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Monday 6 July, 2009 11:22 AM |
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For the second time in three years, Mike Hutchins, a laid-off automotive engineer, is preparing to enroll in job retraining at a local community college, this time to become a civil engineering technician. But he has no idea if he has chosen the right path. “I’m fumbling around in the dark,” said Mr. Hutchins, 58. |
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Monday 6 July, 2009 10:20 AM |
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When Jessica Grodzinski found out her summer job would be working the night shift picking up garbage at Canada's Wonderland, she was less than thrilled.
Remembering how her co-op counsellor praised WorkCabin.ca, a Canadian website that lists environmental jobs, the 23-year-old environmental engineering student at Georgian College decided to check out its online job listings.
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Sunday 5 July, 2009 08:30 AM |
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