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Investing $4 billion in stem education and thats amazing for the next 20 years. but right now, there are also people just doing it. theyre out there, theyre young. if you look at most of these guys, they dont look like our version of what engineers look like. if anyone can make science cool, its discovery channel. and we thought why not find these guys, team them together, make a show out of it? >> its interesting. im curious what motivates them and what fosters that creativity. its not just abo...

Groundbreaking and much-loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious food. >> this was the command post. from here, you know you could look and you could see if fires were going on. >> when the los angeles riots happened in 1992, roy was 22 years old. in this plazas rooftop played a central role for koreans defending their town. lets back up a bit. after the immigration act of 1965, thousands of korean...

>> roy choi is a second-generation korean-american. he lives in los angeles. hes the owner/operator of four groundbreaking and much-loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious food. >> this was the command post. from here, you know you could look and you could see if fires were going on. >> when the los angeles riots happened in 1992, roy was 22 years old. in this plazas rooftop played a central role ...

>> roy choi is a second-generation korean-american. he lives in los angeles. hes the owner/operator of four groundbreaking and much-loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious food. >> this was the command post. from here, you know you could look and you could see if fires were going on. >> when the los angeles riots happened in 1992, roy was 22 years old. in this plazas rooftop played a central role ...

Practical in the real world. >> that makes sense but if you dont have the background knowledge and you just know what youd do by experiencing these firsthand that means you dont know how to fix your mistakes because he did and get the basic technical knowledge at school. >> my challenge is is the best way to sit in the classroom paying exorbitant amounts of money or could we get back more efficiently? john: next person. >> ideas graduated from school in indiana but is the engineering degree in h...

Happens if you do something slightly wrong. you dont know how to fix your mistakes because you didnt get the basic technical knowledge that you would have learned in school. >> dis the best way to learn tht knowledge is sitting in a room with 400 students taking biology or could we get that knowledge from a cheaper more efficient form. >> i am ryan jackson just graduated from a school in indiana. i once witnessed an argument where a student defended her kinder studies degree for engineering degr...

Reports of injuries. so many of us are preoccupied with the ncaa tournament but it can put the internet under a lot of stress and that can affect your workout put. heres dan simon. >> reporter: this is kip compton. >> it is really about planning and network design. he hes got an engineering degree from m.i.t. and is a high level executive at cisco. he knows what it takes to compete computer networks up and running especially when theyre being overtaken by data hungry devices streaming ncaa bas...

Crashes on the information superhighway. >> reporter: this is kip compton. >> well, its really about planning and network design. >> reporter: hes got an engineering degree from m.i.t. and is a high-level executive at cisco. >> im the cto of video and collaboration. >> reporter: he knows what it takes to keep computer networks up and running, especially when theyre being overtaken by data-hungry devices streaming ncaa basketball. >> its almost like a traffic jam. you have wide open lanes and if ...

>> reporter: this is wisconsin. >> really about planning and network design. >> reporter: hes got an engineering degree from m.i.t. and is a high-level executive at cisco. >> im ceo of video and collaborations. >> reporter: he knows what it takes to keep computer networks up and running, especially when they are being overtaken by data-hungry devices streaming ncaa basketball. >> its almost like a traffic jam. you have wide-open lanes, but if you have a lot of people streaming, you have a lot of...

Engineers. west virginia university produces four times as many as it did ten years ago. today, some students before graduation are already at work. >> coming up on two years of experience in the field now. so its been like a blessing to be able to get my foot in the door before i even graduated. once i do graduate, you know, the door is open. just got to walk through it. >> new grad with the me trelium and natural gas engineering degree can have starting salary of $65,000 to $95,000. three accr...