Today in History – June 24, 1963 – First television video recorder is demonstrated. The Telcan was the first domestic “TV recorder”. The Nottingham Electric Valve Company developed a simple reel-to-reel system, using ordinary 1/4 inch audio tape that recorded linearly with stationary heads. It could only manage a maximum of 20 minutes of low-resolution [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Today in History – June 22, 1908 – Founding of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In 2008, 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. [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Great Question: What kinds of skills are needed to address the challenges of the future and how do we enable students to acquire these? Shirley Malcom will be presenting a session on Engineering the Future: A Workforce Perspective entitled What kinds of skills are needed to address the challenges of the future and how do [...]

[Read more →]