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Share this article Share this article FARMINGTON, N.M., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Hormuzd Y. Rassam is being recognized by Continental Whos Who as a Top Professional for his professional excellence and outstanding achievements in the consulting industry.           Having led an impressive career for 59 years, Dr. Hormuzd Y. Rassam has gained a commendable reputation for his professional excellence in consulting, engineering, and education. He is a retired consulting executive, ...

Laura Bottomley Dr. Laura Bottomley is the Director of Women in Engineering (WIE), Engineering Education and The Engineering Place for K-20 Outreach (TEP) and a Teaching Associate Professor in the Colleges of Engineering and Education at NC State University.  Under Bottomley, NC State’s Women in Engineering program is successfully boosting the number of women engineers in academia and industry.  The percentage of women in NC State’s first year engineering program grew from 14% in 2004 to ...

All of my favourite engineers have either abandoned the profession or are dedicating their lives to changing it for the better. The most heroic engineer I know never built a bridge or patented a gizmo. He completed a stint in consulting, moved on to Engineers Without Borders, then founded an organization dedicated to promoting technological stewardship in the engineering community. What all these engineers have in common, besides collaborating with me on a nationwide grant proposal to transform...

Thu, 04/01/2021 LAWRENCE — IHAWKe, the umbrella organization for diversity and women’s programs at the University of Kansas School of Engineering, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2021 with virtual and in-person events, as well as a scholarship fundraising campaign, scheduled throughout the year. “We want to celebrate the fact that weve been doing this since 1971,” said Andrew Williams, KU Engineering associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion. “And it’s been an award-...

Rachel Nuwer for the Office of Engineering Communications March 16, 2021 10:01 a.m. A team of Princeton engineers led by Robert Prudhomme and Shahram Hejazi have found a way to encapsulate drugs and biological molecules in nanoparticles, allowing for more efficient delivery of vaccines and other medications.  Illustration by Neil Adelantar A new technology being developed by Princeton University researchers and alumni could offer a more effective and robust delivery method for COVID-19 vacci...

Harrison High students share their love of STEM programs with elementary school girls High school students share love of STEM with elementary girls and last updated 2021-03-13 23:23:19-05 HARRISON, Ohio — Through a carefully crafted program they designed themselves, Harrison High School students spent Saturday sharing their love of STEM programs with young girls in elementary school. "I know that in my grade, there arent a lot of girls in any of my classes," said Audrey Armontrout, a 12th...

Previous image Next image The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has announced that two MIT professors have been jointly awarded the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, the most prestigious engineering education award in the United States. Linda G. Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering, and Douglas A. Lauffenburger, the Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engi...

UDs Technical Institute: A history that leads to the present A heart icon - click to like this post UDs Technical Institute: A history that leads to the present Robert L. Mott and G. Wm Lawless • March 10, 2021 Two longtime professors reflect on the founding of the Technical Institute at the University of Dayton and how the program began as a Marianist response to the needs of the community. Its roots can be f...

Watson College of Engineering and Applied Sciences receives Bronze-level award for diversity Watson College recognized for ongoing efforts to promote diversity, inclusivity in their program March 11, 2021 The Watson College of Engineering and Applied Sciences has received the Bronze-level award for diversity, equity and inclusion from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The Bronze level, the highest level that was awarded by the ASEE this year, recognizes a university’s exc...

Like many rising seniors at Harvard each year, Jenna D. Lang ’21 spent the summer before her final year searching for post-graduate job opportunities. This year’s senior class, however, is graduating into a job market that looks radically different from what it did a year ago. When Lang reached out to one small media company she hoped to work for, she learned that the coronavirus pandemic had left it struggling to hold on its existing employees, let alone hire new graduates. “Iâ...