University Embracing New Technologies to Update Curriculum and Communication for the 21st Century Chicago, May 18, 2010 — Illinois Institute of Technology will provide all incoming, first-year undergraduate students with Apple iPads as part of an initiative to integrate new technologies into the classroom and foster educational innovation among faculty and students. Educational applications for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]