Today in History – June 23, 1964 - Kilby patents the integrated circuit. Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at the small Fairchild Semiconductor start-up company were both working on the concept of an integrated circuit in 1958. Prior to this invention, only parts of a circuit – such as the transistor – were [...]

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Today in History – June 22, 1908 – Founding of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Last year, the AIChE Annual Meeting  celebrated AIChE’s centennial in its founding city of Philadelphia. The conference highlighted chemical engineering innovations over the past 100 years and looked into the future of chemical engineering and chemical engineering education. [...]

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Today in History – June 21, 1946 - UN Commission on the Status of Women was established as a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to be “dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women”. The goal was to  “prepare recommendations and reports to the Council on promoting women’s rights [...]

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Have you developed courseware – interactive websites,simulations, tutorials, case studies, software environments or tools – designed to enhance engineering education? We want to see it! Submissions due July 17, 2009. The Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware, hosted by the Engineering Pathway, is open to a wide range of submissions of high-quality, engaging, [...]

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Today in History – June 8, 1940 – The discovery of element 93, neptunium (symbol Np), a decay product of uranium-239, was announced by Edwin M. McMillan and Philip H. Abelson working at the University of California at Berkeley. Neptunium was named after the planet Neptune and, at the time, was the first element heavier [...]

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