Northrop Grumman Foundation Sponsors USA Science & Engineering Festival, April 28-29

Northrop Grumman Foundation Sponsors USA Science & Engineering Festival, April 28-29
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The Northrop Grumman Foundation, as a sponsor of the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., will feature the engineering and science behind NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Kurion Sponsors USA Science & Engineering Festival to Encourage Careers in the Sciences
Kurion, Inc., an innovator in nuclear waste management, will demonstrate its waste-management technology at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington DC from April 28-29, 2012.

PSEG Offers New Scholarships for College-Bound Engineering Students
NEWARK, N.J., April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — New Jersey high school seniors are encouraged to apply for the new PSEG Scholars program, which provides scholarship money and mentoring for students with a passion for engineering and an interest in pursuing a career in the energy industry.

Rowan Engineering and Business Students Help Cooper University Hospital Take Health Care on the Road
Good engineering and good business just may lead to good health in South Jersey in the near future. That’s because a project that the Rowan University College of Engineering and Rohrer College of Business (Glassboro, N.J.) is teaming on with Cooper University Hospital (Camden, N.J.) will bring health care services right to where people live and work.

MSU engineering students learn to build a better robot
Engineering students at Montana State University demonstrated their ingenuity Thursday, showing off machines they created to do everything from mining moon rocks to purifying water for poor villagers in Haiti.

Posted by Engineering Careers Online Staff - April 27, 2012 at 8:51 pm

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Donan Engineering Continues Growth By Design Plans

Donan Engineering Continues Growth By Design Plans
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Donan Engineering Co., Inc. today announced plans to open a new office in Fargo, North Dakota. Donan will begin offering forensic investigative services from our new Fargo office on May 1, 2012.

Why Engineering, Science Gender Gap Persists
Angela Bielefeldt* is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. The percentage of women in her classes is dismal, she said. Of the 60 to 80 students that take her freshman civil engineering class, only 10 to 12 are generally women…Bielefeldt has been on the hunt to explain – and fix – this yawning gender gap.

Proposed UF College of Engineering budget will be set aside
UF College of Engineering Dean Cammy Abernathy has agreed to set aside her proposal to deal with budget cuts for the upcoming fiscal year. UF President Bernie Machen issued a statement to the university community today around 5 p.m. He explained the administration’s efforts to identify budget reductions.

Plastic Engineering Inc Introduces a New FOD Tool Control Tray Assembly
Plastic Engineering has developed an alternative tool tray designed to last longer and end FOD issues. These trays have insets made of two new materials called Stata-cell and Stata-lene.

FLASH® to Launch StormStruck® App at USA Science & Engineering Festival
Want to blow your house down and rebuild it to safely withstand severe windstorms? There’s an app for that. The Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH)® will launch StormStruck, a new 3D animated app, from the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, DC tomorrow.

Posted by Engineering Careers Online Staff - April 26, 2012 at 9:32 am

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