What teacher has not heard students challenge, “Why do I need math? Why am I learning this? I’m never going to use it.” To help teachers answer these questions, an engineering team from Rochester ...

Through the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) K-12 STEM Outreach Competition, engineering majors Cassandra Collins ’28 and Jillian Carroll ’28 developed a hands-on module that brought ...

A better public understanding of engineers and engineering will benefit not only the engineering community but the entire country, and to that end the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has ...

The partnership, the Arcadis Pathway to Engineering Afterschool Program, gives students the opportunity to make informed decisions about college in high school, identify a future goal, and plan for ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Feb. 20, 2013) -- "Can someone tell me why Iron Man is the best superhero, what his true super power is? -- Iron Man is the best superhero because Tony Stark is an ...

For many high school students in rural Colorado, engineering once felt distant—something that happened somewhere else, by someone else. But over the past decade, an outreach program in the Paul M.

Joined up action across industry and education is key to meeting tomorrow's engineering skills requirements. A new code of practice, shaped by more than 100 organisations, provides a framework for ...

On April 7–8, the ACS Office of Science Outreach hosted ACS Kids Zone activities at the 5th USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. (left). And on April 14, nearly 400 people visited ...

Suggested Citation: "4 The Need for Effective Assessment." National Academy of Engineering. 2017. Engineering Societies and Undergraduate Engineering Education: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, ...