If you were on the top floor of a tall building on a windy day, did you get that feeling the building is swaying? High winds can cause tall structures to swing or deflect. If you did not notice anything,...
ECEDHA 2019: ECE Impacts in the Ever-Changing Landscape Join us at the Hilton El Conquistador in Tucson, AZ, March 22-26th, 2019 for the premier annual gathering of ECE Department Heads, Deans, Lab Managers, Communicators, and Faculty from throughout the United...
The objective of EERI is to reduce earthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering; improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment; and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures...
The Sixth International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE’ 2019) will CONNECT engineering educators from all over India with leaders from across the world as well as from industry. Participants will be able to SHARE best practices and thereby LEARN to TRANSFORM their own institutional efforts to...
The holidays are around the corner, and you may find yourself locked out of your office or classroom for a couple of days. What are you going to do with all that free time? Some of you may be lucky...
Last week I took part in an engineering curriculum workshop by Engineering for Us All or E4USA. The workshop aimed at designing a pilot program for engineering education at the secondary level. Spearheaded by the University of Maryland and propelled...
For the past three months, I coached a FIRST Lego League team. In this competition kids aged 9 to 14 design, build, and program an autonomous Lego Mindstorms robot, then compete on a table-top playing field at a tournament. Teams also...
In this YOUser Webinar, our guest, Dr. Hugh Liu, Professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and Director of the Centre for Aerial Robotics Research and Education (CARRE), presented several research topics on aircraft flight control...
Some of the most frequently asked questions we get when introducing Quanser systems are “can the user modify the controller?” and “can I access the motor?” The answer to both of them is YES. One of the main advantages of...
With IoT, AI, machine learning and other highly technical terms entering the mainstream vocabulary, engineering careers become more and more attractive for the new generation. The challenge for the engineering schools and departments now is to motivate these young students...
