New research aims to measure the effectiveness of a teaching approach that allows students in challenging engineering courses to access hundreds of instructional videos and animations while encouraging interaction with each ...
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2016
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A team of engineering students has produced a bicycle powered generator which could power a 55 watt projector for the time required to watch a movie.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 5, 2016
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According to recent studies, in colleges and universities up to 60 percent of students drop out or transfer from science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, and more than 50 percent of students pursuing STEM ...
Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2016
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New research aims to help educators quantify how the best students perform problem solving with the aid of instructional videos, a step toward learning how to better coach students in difficult engineering curricula.
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2016
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The missions keep getting higher, longer, farther and faster, as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Christopher Goyne inspires his University of Virginia students to keep pushing the outer edges of the envelope.
Space Exploration
Apr 27, 2016
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On a stunningly clear October morning, a 400-foot-tall NASA high-altitude balloon rose from an airport runway in Fort Sumner, New Mexico and began its ascent into the stratosphere.
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2016
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Digitizing books published before 1700 has created an aesthetic as well as quite pragmatic "black-dot problem" in translated texts, with the word "love," for example, showing up as "lo•e."
Computer Sciences
Dec 28, 2015
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When Mark Hain decided to leave his job as an emergency medical technician to pursue a degree in environmental engineering at the University of Georgia, he assumed he would immediately get his hands dirty designing and building ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2015
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Engineers like to claim their primacy as problem solvers. But while this ability will always be critical for engineers, there is more to engineering than just solving problems.
Engineering
Nov 11, 2015
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In a new project-based class, first-year bioengineering students at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering produced 3D-printed models of fractured ankles from 2D images of real patients.
Engineering
Aug 27, 2015
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