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IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Robert W. Lucky |
Is Math Still Relevant? The queen of the sciences may someday lose its royal status   |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
Robert W Lucky |
Unsystematic Engineering If systems engineering is so valuable, why is it so seldom practiced? In recent years, a number of well-known universities have begun new programs in systems engineering. Maybe now is the time for these programs to become successful. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2007
Joyce Fassl |
Promoting the Profession Retaining engineering knowledge within manufacturing operations as well as laying the groundwork to foster more interest in engineering careers may be some of the toughest problems the food industry will face in the next decade. |
Science News
March 31, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Circles Inspire Students Programs outside of school are helping students discover math on their own. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
Robert W. Lucky |
Who Can Hold 2 Billion Transistors in His Head at Once? It's impossible to do engineering anymore without using mostly other people's knowledge. Our profession has splintered into many specialties, and they, in turn, into subspecialties. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Robert W. Lucky |
Famous People There really are no famous engineers. Rather, there are famous engineering achievements. While there is sure to be a steady supply of great engineering achievements in the future, it is possible that the credit for these will be more diffuse than it has been in the past. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 17, 2010
Patricia Deubel |
Web 2.0 in Instruction: Adding Spice to Math Education Mathematics lags behind other subjects in class-centered web 2.0 communities for children, and an even larger lag in informal, recreational communities. |
Job Journal
January 25, 2004
Marty Nemko |
Where's the Passion? Are you avoiding sterotypical careers you might enjoy? |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2001 |
Three Applications Let Students Explore Math From ImagiWorks, Inc. comes ImagiMath, a suite of three mathematics applications for Palm hand-held devices. The ImagiGraph application serves as a mathematics visualizer; ImagiCalc is a full-featured calculator; and ImagiSolve is a mathematics worksheet and equation solver... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2006
Jeff Weinstock |
Math Needs a Makeover Our most pressing educational crisis may boil down to an image problem. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2009 |
Youngsters Say No to Engineering as a Career While the engineering workforce continues to age, the looming question is who will replace them? According to the American Society for Quality, it won't be today's American children. Engineering isn't even on the radar for most kids. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
David Appell |
Math = beauty + truth / (really hard) Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2007
Neal Starkman |
Problem Solvers US students continue to lag behind the rest of the world in the four core STEM subjects. The answer, many believe, is a practical approach to instruction: project-based. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Jill Jusko |
Engineered for Girls Web site encourages females to join engineering programs. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Prachi Patel |
Math and Gender Women do best in math wherever women do best in everything else |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
John Blau |
Germany Faces a Shortage of Engineers Even loosening immigration won't fill the gap, say experts |
Geotimes
April 2007
Vernon J. Ehlers |
Education: Why Do I Have to Learn Geometry? The study of science, technology, engineering and math is critical for every student in our nation, not only for enhancing their opportunities for good jobs, but also for improving our national security and competitiveness. |
Science News
April 14, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Euler's Beautiful Equation Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, was born 300 years ago on April 15, 1707. He discovered the equation e ip = -1. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2008
Jeff Weinstock |
The X-Man Cometh I'm starting to think that had I not found my niche in journalism, I would have taught math, having just completed a five-week stint doing just that, trying to help my wife through an algebra course. |
Popular Mechanics
November 19, 2008
Kate Schweitzer |
Fringe's Music to Math Connection Contains as Much Fact as Fiction Is there really a connection between mathematics and music? |
Financial Advisor
June 2008
John E. Grable |
The Engineer, Professor And Planner The allegory that follows is presented to all practicing financial planners in the hope of furthering the discussion of professionalism in the industry. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Prachi Patel-Predd |
A League Of Extraordinary Women All too few girls consider engineering as a career, and the profession is the poorer for it, as talented individuals seek vocations elsewhere. But a new program is in the works in the United States to attract young women to engineering -- and to keep them in the career. |
Science News
April 30, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Works in Progress Part of a mathematical education should include some sense of what is known and what is not yet known (and may never be known) and what progress is being made in creating new mathematics. |
Science News
July 15, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Math Trek: Flirting with the Impossible Common sense by itself is too limiting for making progress in mathematics. New concepts arise out of leaps of imagination. And such out-of-the-box thinking puts mathematics into a rich intellectual landscape that it shares with physics, philosophy, literature, and art. |
Science News
November 29, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
The Cow in the Classroom There is a difference between mathematical exercises disguised as episodes of everyday life and real mathematics applied in the real world. It's a distinction that's not always apparent in the mathematics classroom. |
Science News
May 27, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Math Trails in Ottawa ...math teacher Ron Lancaster of Hamilton, Ontario, has been creating "math trails" for both students and teachers as a way to demonstrate that mathematics can be found anywhere and everywhere... |
Science News
March 4, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
The Limits of Mathematics No matter what the system of axioms or rules is, there will always be some assertion that can be neither proved nor invalidated within the system. |
Job Journal
May 13, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Civil & Structural Engineers California's crumbling infrastructure adds to a growing demand for civil and structural engineers. |
National Defense
January 2013
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Budget Woes Driving Scientists, Engineers Away from Defense Department Jobs The budget crunch is a new factor preventing the Defense Department from recruiting and retaining top talent within its science, technology, engineering and mathematics workforce, a recent report found. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Robert W. Lucky |
U.S. Engineers and the Flat Earth The recent report concludes that high-quality jobs are necessary for both individual and national prosperity and that advances in science and engineering are needed to create such jobs. |
Science News
March 18, 2006 |
Explore Your Knowledge Test your math and science knowledge at the National Center for Education Statistics Web site. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2004 |
WWC Launches New Site, Releases Study Reports The What Works Clearinghouse's (WWC) new Web site provides access to comprehensive and user-friendly reports reviewing evidence of the effectiveness of educational interventions such as programs, products, practices and policies. |
National Defense
December 2010
Cynthia D. Miller |
JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades. |
Science News
April 8, 2006 |
Math Focus on Internet Security A link that highlights the crucial role that mathematics plays in the development of cryptosystems. |
Science News
July 10, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Pythagoras Plays Ball Baseball, like engineering and science, is a game of inches and feet. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2000 |
Linking Graphing Tools and Technical Terms Makes Conceptualizing Math Easier A collection of interactive math tools, Let's Do Math: Tools and Things combines a graphing package with a graphing calculator. The graphing capabilities are also linked to a database of 1,100 math terms and definitions. |
National Defense
May 2011
Cynthia D. Miller |
Defense Department Program Exposes Students to Science The official curriculum includes 3.5 hours of physics, 3.5 hours of chemistry, four hours of technology, four hours of engineering, two hours of mathematics operations and applications and 2.5 hours of STEM career discussions. |
National Defense
June 2012 |
NDIA Joins Mission-Critical STEM conference The United States needs a work force skilled in science, technology, engineering and math, and a notable group of companies and organizations is uniting to ensure that the nation gets the message. |
Science News
July 1, 2006 |
Science Safari: Mathematical Imagery This set of web pages features albums of math-inspired and mathematically-generated artworks. |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2015
Derek Lowe |
Missing mathematics? `Whether you use it or not, the ability to learn mathematics may be a good proxy for scientific proficiency. But in drug discovery, at least in my end of it, mathematics just doesn't seem to figure in very much. |
Science News
April 19, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
The Colors of an Equation's Roots A few artists have taken advantage of the techniques used to visualize mathematics to create aesthetically pleasing patterns and intriguing artworks. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Lauren Aaronson |
Q&A With: Jeannette Wing An interview with the head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon about software engineering, education, and computational thinking. |
Information Today
January 7, 2016 |
Elsevier Adds to Knovel Interactive Equations The online Knovel platform makes the equations foundational to every engineering discipline easily discoverable. |
Scientific American
June 20, 2005
Philip E. Ross |
Math without Words Numerical reasoning seems independent of language. |
Search Engine Watch
November 22, 2004
Gary Price |
An Exceptionally "EEVL" Search Resource One of the most respected engineering gateways on the web has just released four new databases providing free access to hundreds of online scientific and technical journals. |
Science News
November 10, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Good Stories, Good Math Preschoolers who can tell good stories develop good mathematical skills by the first grade. |
Chemistry World
December 10, 2012
Paul Nancarrow |
A fresh approach Morton Denn, author of Chemical Engineering: An Introduction, has successfully written a modern and concise book on this topic. |
Science News
February 16, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Math on Display Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2006 |
The Workforce: Bill McDermott If future employees are math - or science - deprived, our high-tech competitiveness as a nation will continue to be eroded. |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2013
Cameron Hall |
Mathematical modeling in science and engineering This book, by Ismael Herrera and George Pinder, is intended as an introductory text to bridge the gap between scientists and mathematicians. |
