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The International Science and Engineering Fair 2010 Association, Inc, which is dedicated to the advancement of science and engineering education among future leaders, today announced that Cisco will serve as the Communications Technology Sponsor of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) when it returns to San Jose in 2010. As part of the sponsorship, Cisco will illustrate how technology-enabled communication can play a key role in preparing students for successful science, math and technology careers. [read full article at redOrbit]

The engineering class going on this summer on the third floor of the Allison Road classroom building on the Busch campus does not look like any other engineering class at Rutgers University.
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In fact, it may not look like any other engineering class anywhere.

That is because everyone in the class is an adolescent girl. [read full article at MyCentralJersey.com]

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Despite a difficult job market, six fortunate and talented college graduates are beginning careers as engineers at Rhodia, an international chemical company that offers one of the longest and most rigorous multidisciplinary engineering development programs in the industry. [read full article at Yahoo! Finance]

Guest speakers and hands-on activities at University of Texas of the Permian Basin’s Pre-freshman Engineering Program have taught 13-year-old Luis Gomez more than he expected about the discipline.

TexPREP, which started June 22 and runs through Aug. 7, provides students who have demonstrated mathematical ability through academic performance and teacher/counselor recommendations an opportunity to study math, science and engineering. [read full article at MyWestTexas.com]

Dice, the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals, today launched Dice Learning (dicelearning.com) — a service for technology professionals to easily obtain valuable technical training and certifications needed to advance their careers. Dice Learning provides a powerful search engine offering access to over 50,000 training programs across major technology skill areas including materials from technology stalwarts such as IBM((R)) and Sun Microsystems Learning Services, and pre-screened third-party training providers authorized by vendors to develop and teach courses on their technologies. [read full article at redOrbit]

The School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a highly personalized one-year master of engineering in computer science and engineering designed to provide students computing skills and a competitive edge to meet the demands of modern industry. [read full article at WUSTL News & Information]

In the past two weeks, 27 middle school girls from Santa Cruz and north Monterey counties have gotten an introduction to engineering — and a chance to explore UC Santa Cruz to get a taste of what college life might hold for them.

For Gianna Meschi, an eighth-grader at San Lorenzo Valley Middle School, the draw of civil engineering is the problem-solving aspect.

“I’ve always liked to … design things,” she said. “There are so many ways that you can design something and make it different and improve it.” [read full article at the Santa Cruz Sentinel]

The unemployment rate for U.S. electrical and electronics engineers (EEs) hit a new record in the second quarter, while the rate for all engineers increased for a second straight quarter, according to data released last week by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

“Technology drives our economy, which means engineering unemployment is a bellwether for recovery and job creation,” IEEE-USA President Gordon Day said. “These new data suggest we’ve got a long way to go as the United States attempts to regain its economic footing.” [read full article at EurekAlert!]

David Meredith, professor of engineering at Penn State Fayette, the Eberly Campus, remembers the day that he walked in to his freshman orientation at Ohio State University.

Out of nearly 300 hundred engineering majors, only 12 of the students at the orientation were female. The experience sparked Meredith’s mission to encourage women to enter non-traditional professions.

For his work, Meredith has been honored by the Women in Engineering Proactive Network. [read full article at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]