The online master’s in Engineering Technology uses a professional, multi-disciplinary, team and project-oriented approach to graduate education. It focuses primarily on the applied aspects of the technological spectrum closest to product development and improvement, industrial practices, and engineering technology operation functions. It meets the needs of and provides the flexibility for graduate students who want to expand their knowledge through advanced engineering technology courses. It also provides the flexibility for graduate students to expand their knowledge in a specific technical specialty. [read full article at Yahoo! News]

“One of the reasons for a lack of interest in aerospace and defense could be the uncertainty of NASA programs,” Marion Blakey, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, told the House Science and Technology Committee. “A commitment to a robust human spaceflight program will help attract students and hold workers.” [read full article at Florida Today]

“The lab will enable students to work together in small groups designing experiments on challenging problems related to structural health monitoring, and then gain experience obtaining real-world measurements that can be applied in their future careers,” explained Mayrai Gindy, associate professor of civil engineering who developed the mobile lab. [read full article at PhysOrg.com]

Eight years.

Two exams.

It all adds up to what Ben O’Neal, engineering professor, calls two “pretty exhausting” eight-hour exams.

After four years of undergraduate coursework, engineering students encounter additional education and practice for another four years before acquiring a professional engineer license. [read full article at TechnicianOnline.com]

Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership (IDEAL) brings together CWRU and five public research universities across Northern Ohio: Bowling Green State University, Cleveland State University, Kent State University, the University of Akron and the University of Toledo. The goal is to foster environments conducive to recruiting, advancing and retaining women and underrepresented minority faculty in science and engineering (S&E). [read full article at EurekAlert!]

The American Solar Energy Society predicts that by the year 2030, the number of green jobs available will skyrocket to 40 million, proposing one in four workers will be in a green energy job.

This trend has not gone unnoticed by universities. Programs featuring sustainable energy are popping up all over the country. The University of North Dakota is among these energy forward institutions, taking the initiative by creating the country’s first graduate studies program in Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE). Around the world, the graduate degree is offered only at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, Aalborg University in Denmark, the University of Adelaide in Australia, and University of Sarajevo in Bosnia Herzegovina. [read full article at The Dakota Student]

A study getting under way at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) will explore the reasons for the relatively large gap between the number of women who obtain engineering degrees but leave the field or never enter, and those who pursue careers and remain. [read full article at EurekAlert!]