Posted on July 20th, 2011 by axb
What’s colorful, fun, packed to the brim with amazing engineering stories, AND coming to you this October?
Why, it’s the fabulous fifth edition of Engineering: Go For It, of course! In our next magazine, look out for:
- A gorgeous, tri-fold, eye-popping new cover (previewed above)
- All-new articles featuring the latest, craziest engineering innovations
- A fresh group of young, inspiring students and inventors
- New ways that engineers are helping people and saving the planet
- More good advice for aspiring engineers
- Special web-only features, and much, much, more!
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Posted on July 19th, 2011 by axb
Winners (from left): Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose, Naomi Shah. Photo by Andrew Federman.
Teachers struggling to get girls jazzed about STEM take heart. Of some 10,000 students who competed in Google’s inaugural global science fair, three young women swept to the top.
Fort Worth, Texas, high school student Shree Bose was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition (7/12) about winning the grand prize for her work on drug resistance in treating ovarian cancer.
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Posted on July 14th, 2011 by axb
A mosquito-blasting laser gun is a sensible weapon for fighting malaria — but a smartphone? Turns out that high-def touchscreen might be good for more than video chatting and slinging angry birds.
Five graduate students have designed a smartphone app for the 2011 Imagine Cup that will allow doctors to quickly and accurately diagnose malaria. It works by analyzing data from the phone’s camera – which has been outfitted with a microscopic lens – to determine whether malarial parasites are present in blood samples.
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Posted on July 12th, 2011 by axb
Every budding engineer must study advanced mathematics in college or earlier, and to some the prospect is less than exciting. Otherwise capable students might steer clear of science and engineering altogether, just to spare themselves the multi-variable calculus.
Math-aversion has reached epidemic levels in America – recent studies rank the U.S. at the bottom of the developed world when it comes to proficiency in mathematics.
So how can teachers hope to foster enthusiasm for numbers in such an environment? That’s the question driving the Museum of Mathematics (also known as MoMath), a new repository of mathematical delights slated to open in Manhattan next year.
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Posted on July 7th, 2011 by axb
Would you like your silly putty to be able to stick to the fridge, eat magnets, and creepily ooze without your assistance? If so, you should definitely check out this DIY activity from Instructables.
Silly putty was invented by accident when James Wright, a Scottish engineer working for General Electric, mixed silicone oil with boric acid in an attempt to make artificial rubber. By 1949 the bouncing putty was packaged and sold as a toy, and was met with instant popularity.
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