American Society for Engineering Education

• Cover Story: Urban Outfitters
  How engineers hope to transform congested cities into sustainable homes for half of humanity.
• Home Sweet Utopia
  South Korea’s “ubiquitous cities” aim to improve life with alert – if all-too-knowing – smart buildings.
  
• TEACHING: Labs on a Shoestring
  From donated industrial equipment to homemade parts and student-purchased kits, schools get creative in providing active-learning experiences.
  
  

Special Double Issue: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference Issue

• Cover Story: Business & Pleasure
  Atlanta pulls together the new and old South.
• The 120TH Annual Conference & Exposition:
  Frankly, We Do Give a D*mn
  
• Conference at a Glance
   

• Cover Story: Folding Frontier
  Origami engineering could be the next big thing in manufacturing.
• The New Ph.D.
  Student entrepreneurship and a dearth of academic jobs prompt schools to re-engineer doctoral programs for the business world.
  
• Live, Learn, and Thrive
  Engineering-themed dorms boost first-year retention and engagement.

• Cover Story: Delivering Big Data
  How computer scientists convert information overload into valuable, even lifesaving knowledge.
• Einsteins on the Beach
  Japan looks to a remote institute for a technological reboot.
  
• TEACHING: WOW the Audience
  Many engineering students lack the communications skills they will need to succeed professionally. Here's how educators are working to fix that.

• Cover Story: Dance With the Dragon
  Research partnerships grow alongside U.S.-Chinese competition.
• Grave New World
  World Emerging technologies with the power to harm or help pose tough ethical choices – and a challenge for educators.
  
• Light Fantastic
  The potential of photonics and optics is just starting to be tapped.

• Cover Story: BOLD EXPERIMENT
  Universities face new competition as elite schools offer course certificates to the online masses.
• SILICON SPOOKS
  How the CIA turned venture capitalism into a high-tech intelligence tool.
  
• MIRACLE MATERIAL
  Miracle Material Conductive and flexible yet harder than a diamond, graphene could revolutionize industries from electronics to aeronautics.

• Cover Story: Dream Factory
  University engineers are often the hidden stars behind on-screen excitement.
• Lives of an Engineer
  For Walter Buchanan, IBM mainframes, the Saturn V rocket, Navy service, and the law were just a prelude to the “constant stimulation” of teaching.
  
• Ideas Worth Sharing
  A multiuniversity collaboration yields lasting improvements in engineering education.

• Cover Story: Steeper Ascent
  Should a master’s be the minimum for engineers? PLUS: Britain’s shorter route —could it work here?
• Outside Chance
  Few opportunities exist for aspiring engineers inside U.S. prison walls. New Zealand inmates see a brighter future.
  
• Fashion, Form, and Function
  A photo essay explores advances in textiles.

• Cover Story: Engines of Exploration
  Putting the BIG in Big Science
• Dissecting Disaster
  After the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as in past accidents, Japan turned to mechanical engineer Yotaro Hatamura to unravel a chain of mistakes.
  
• Brighter Outlook
  Community colleges find that faculty-student research projects help spot and develop STEM talent.

• Cover Story: Heavy Industry
  Can Canada enjoy both an oil-sands boom and a clean environment? At the University of Alberta, more than 1,000 researchers are trying to find out.
• Great Expectations
  Freeman Hrabowski knows how students can succeed in STEM – and makes sure they do.
  
• A Way with Waste
  The Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet challenge inspires no-plumbing solutions that turn human effluent into useful products.

• COVER STORY: The Eureka! Factor
  Enterprising student inventors are spinning clever designs into commercial products. And they’re no longer leaving campus
  to do it.
• The 10,000 Challenge
  Can engineering schools answer the White House call for more engineers? Should they try? It depends on whom you ask.
  
• SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE:
  2012 ASEE Annual Conference Issue

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.