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The Most-Cited Institutions in Engineering, 1999-2009

Friday, February 12th, 2010

This month,  ScienceWatch.com presented a listing of the top 20 institutions (colleges and universities) which, as of the fifth bimonthly update of Essential Science IndicatorsSM (January 1, 1999-October 31, 2009) attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed Engineering journals. These institutions are the top 20 out of a pool of 1,084 [...]

American Academy of Environmental Engineers

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Certification is the primary purpose of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.  They certify the competence of environmental engineers in their chosen specialty, such as Air Pollution Control, General Environmental Engineering, Hazardous Waste Management, Industrial Hygiene, Radiation Protection, Solid Waste Management, or Water Supply/Wastewater Engineering.  This is the next step beyond holding a Professional Engineering license.  Their [...]

NCEES Credentials Evaluations

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

If you have graduated from a college or university outside of the U.S. and want to apply to be a licensed professional engineer, you will likely need to have you education credentials qualified.  The NCEES Credentials Evaluations ( formerly CPEES ) provides U.S. engineering and surveying licensing boards with credential evaluations that is used in assessing foreign-educated candidates [...]

Best Engineering Universities 2010

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

U.S. News & World Report recently posted their “America’s Best Colleges 2010” web feature.  Some of the information they provide is free; more detail is available to paid subscribers of their Premium Online Edition.The rankings are based solely on a peer survey of deans and senior faculty that asked them to rate each program they [...]

Academia.edu

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Dr. Richard Price (http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice)  recently finished his Ph.D at Oxford on the philosophy of perception.  With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, he launched a website, Academia.edu, which has two main goals:
 - To show academics around the world structured in a ‘tree’ format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.
 - To enable academics to see [...]

Best Engineering Universities 2009

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

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U.S. News & World Report recently posted their “America’s Best Colleges 2009” web feature.  Some of the information they provide is free; more detail is available to paid subscribers of their Premium Online Edition.The rankings are based solely on a peer survey of deans and senior faculty that [...]