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Souder’s earmarks total $42 million

 
Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, has asked taxpayers to underwrite $42 million in Northeast Indiana Projects next year, including money to widen Gump and Flutter roads, install a partial “green” roof of plants on a middle school, develop a program to teach Arabic and Chinese to high school students and expand the medical research program at Grace College.
Sunday 5 April, 2009 02:42 PM
 

Fundamentals of engineering revealed through ancient art

 
Goran Konjevod needs only a blank piece of paper to begin enlightening you about some basic principles of mathematics, science and engineering. Plus you could learn to make something kind of cool.

He uses the ancient art of origami – paper folding – to show students how intricate structures can be fashioned by folding paper into various patterns, and how the process demonstrates fundamentals of geometry and engineering design.
Tuesday 31 March, 2009 04:24 PM
 

Women workers join in the shipyard boom

 
GO back a few years , and working in a Shipyard would have been considered a job for men only.

But with the industry now looking for new recruits as order books fill up, both men and women are being encouraged to consider a career in shipbuilding. ..
Tuesday 31 March, 2009 02:34 PM
 

Husman explores how 'future thinking' affects motivation

 
Education researcher Jenefer Husman is probing the concept of mental time travel through “future thinking” to understand how personal motivation and a vision of the future affect students’ abilities to make connections between their college coursework and career goals.
Wednesday 18 March, 2009 01:43 PM
 

Top 10 'innovations' that should have changed the world – but didn't manage it

 
The list, compiled by a panel of 20 experts from the British Science Association , reveal the most exciting innovations that failed to live up to expectations.

It follows the Association's list of ten innovations that did manage to change the way we live our lives, compiled as part of National Science and Engineering Week.
Monday 16 March, 2009 01:43 PM
 

Man with a plan

 
Engineering is not seen as creative industry. Ask a child to draw an engineer and you'll get a caricature: a man in dungarees and a hard hat, clutching a toolbox. In other words, a fixer rather than a maker. Now, there's nothing wrong with fixers. But there's an unfortunate stigma attached to engineering - of the geek, creatively redundant compared to the artist. And it's a lie.
Tuesday 24 February, 2009 08:15 AM
 

Celebrating the Concorde's streamlined beauty

 
It was several years late, and many millions of dollars over budget. The technical problems were horrendous, and its launch was marred by unusually nasty political rows over everything from critical engineering issues, to whether or not its name should end with an "e."
Monday 23 February, 2009 06:39 AM
 

When designing workspace, take human element into account

 
What if your leadership decided to design your office space so that it would increase, in their view, the degree of collaboration and innovation among the work force, only to make that investment of millions of dollars and find out that those results were not achieved, and there was significant resistance to the change? What would it have cost the company? A lot.
Wednesday 18 February, 2009 10:01 AM
 

Rowan engineering team goes to India to refine grain crusher for the poor

 
 Barefoot elders , children off from school and women dressed in their very finest gathered in the community center in the village of Sengalpaddai in the southern part of India when Rowan University came to call this winter.
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Their attention riveted on two grain crushers, fairly simple mechanical devices designed and constructed by an engineering professor and her students that may make a difference in the villagers' lives.
Tuesday 10 February, 2009 04:02 PM
 
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