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Current Issue

January 2012

• Cover Story: A Deeper Partnership
  Forget science fairs and drop-bys. Engineering educators now actively prepare teachers to deliver the E in K-12 STEM.
• STAYING NUMBER ONE
  How can U.S. research universities remain the world’s best?
  
• Primary Colors
  GOP contest paints a blurry picture on science and R&D.

 

Previous Issues

December 2011

• Cover Story: Uncharted Waters
  Tomorrow's complex warships will broaden the reach of marine engineering.
• Designed to Win
  From solar homes to eco-cars, contests spark student engagement.
  
• WHY BIRDS DON’T COLLIDE
  ... and other marvels from the marriage of applied mathematics and engineering

 

November 2011

• Cover Story: MAKING IT
  Revolutionary manufacturing processes stir hope of a U.S. industrial revival.
• little boxes take off
  Nanosatellites bring space discovery to campus at down-to-earth prices.
  
• POWERING ON
  South Korea bets the time is right for a nuclear-only graduate school.

 

October 2011

• Cover Story: AFRICAN PHOENIX
  Rwanda rises from horror to train engineers for a knowledge-based economy.
  Zimbabwe’s Descent
  Education collapsed with the economy.
• Deadly Ingredients
  E. coli and other food-borne diseases kill thousands annually. Researchers in the emerging field of food-safety engineering are trying to protect what we eat, from farm to table.
  
• Secrets Are Out
  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender engineers are no longer willing to hide their true selves.

 

September 2011

• Cover Story: SEEING AND DOING
  Revamped curricula show freshmen what it means to be an engineer.
• GET FRACKING
  Engineers stoke the shale gas boom – and investigate its risks.
  
• CREATING BUZZ
  Don Giddens wants ASEE to be a key player in engineering.

 

Summer 2011

• Cover Story: Hot Courses
  What wows the Facebook generation?
• Come Slither
  Snake robots advance toward their ultimate quarry: search and rescue missions.
  
• Leaps and Bounds
  Engineers empower disabled athleteswith high-tech assists.

 

March + April 2011

• Cover Story: THE INTERDISCIPLINARIAN
  NSF's director wants to tear down barriers to research collaboration.
• MOORE OR LESS?
  An Intel cofounder observed that advances in computer chips double their performance roughly every two years. Now, researchers are struggling to prove this "law" still holds.
  
• WHET THEIR APPETITE
  Down-to-earth illustrations – like an exploding sausage – are among techniques shown to stimulate learning and student retention.

 

February 2011

• Cover Story: GLOBAL K-12 ISSUE:
  Preparing Future Engineers Around the World.
• Up close:
  Lose the Lectures
  
• SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE:
  2011 ASEE Annual Conference Issue

 

January 2011

• Cover Story: OPEN TO WILD IDEAS
  An engineer brings 'blue sky' research back to DARPA.
• GLORIOUS PAST, DISTRESSED PRESENT
  For Iraq's science and engineering schools, recovery is slow and painful.
• WIRING THE REVOLUTION
  It's one thing to get a Smart Grid to work, another to win over the public. A university- business partnership seeks to do both.

December 2010

• Cover Story: UNDER ATTACK
  Software engineers range widely across disciplines to unmask and defeat cyberfoes. But can they win?
• LEARNING FROM DISASTER
  The Gulf oil spill holds powerful lessons for future engineers.
• A WINNING COMBINATION
  EPICS draws high school students to engineering through community service.

November 2010

• Cover Story: PERIL IN SMALL PLACES
  Engineers join the quest to identify and prevent potential hazards in nanotechnology products.
• HERITAGE AND HOPE
  Native American colleges draw science learning back to cultural roots.
• CODE RED RESEARCH
  Universities' homeland security centers provide innovation on demand.

October 2010

• Cover Story: Extra Strength
  Engineering offers new insights into diseases and tools to treat them.
• Energy & Empathy
  ASEE's president combines an innate drive and a desire to understand today's students.
• Bowled Over
  Britain's austerity budget rolls straight toward science and engineering

September 2010

• CATALYST
  The industry-university partnership is this year’s hot
  economic-development strategy. But not all “innovation
  clusters” prove to be winners.
• IT TAKES A COMMUNITY
  Role models, peers, and parents are key to a program
  drawing underserved students into STEM.
• HYPE OR HOPE?
  A once favored alternative fuel is shunted to the slow lane.

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