Today in History – October 31, 1941 – Mount Rushmore was completed. The Mount Rushmore project was an incredible feat of engineering and an integration of art and technology. It is the largest work of art on earth with a face that is 60 feet high. Although the workers regularly used dynamite and heavy equipment, [...]

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The 2007 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded to Kirk Martini of the University of Virginia for Arcade: Interactive Non-linear Structural Analysis and Animation. Arcade is a computer program for the simulation and animation of physical structures. Arcade uses a physics engine to model structural behavior. The physics engine models a [...]

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The Engineering Pathway highlights the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik and the birth of the space age. View our Sputnik resources, as well as related resources in Aerospace Engineering. Students can learn about careers in Aerospace Engineering, learn about aircraft dynamics, or simulate gas turbines. Faculty can visit our Aerospace Engineering Education Community [...]

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The Engineering Pathway has teamed up with JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society) to feature a K-12 resource every month in the Pre-Engineering Times newsletter. The resource highlight this month is Manufacturing Technologies: Making a Picture Frame, a TeachEngineering resource that complements the feature article “Automation Engineers Control the World”.

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