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Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Voyager 1 Discovers Jupiter's rings

March 7th, 2010 · Add a Comment

Today in History – March 7, 1979 -  Voyager 1 transmits first images of a ring system around Jupiter. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 and it passed Saturn in November 1980. A second spacecraft, the Voyager 2, was launched earlier on August 20, 1977. Later in 1979 improved images were provided by [...]

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Tags: Aerospace Engineering · Computer Engineering · Engineering Mechanics · General Engineering, Engineering Science · Information Technology · Mechanical Engineering

Engineering Education “Today in History” Blog: International Women's Day

March 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

March 8th is International Women’s Day – “a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future”. On March 8th and the weekend before, thousands of events are held throughout the world to celebrate women’s achievements and highlight global issues concerning women and girls.
March is also [...]

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Tags: Gender Equity · General Engineering, Engineering Science

Engineering Education Blog: Inventors, Innovators and Patents – 5 Millionth Patent is Issued

March 5th, 2010 · Add a Comment

Today in History – March 5, 1991 – The 5 millionth patent is issued for a process turning garbage into fuel by Lonnie O. Ingram, a professor of microbiology at the University of Florida; Tyrell Conway, a former post-doctoral student at the university, and Flavio Alterthum, a visiting professor who is now [...]

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Tags: General Engineering, Engineering Science

Engineering Education Blog: Women Engineers, Computer Scientists and Inventors

March 2nd, 2010 · Add a Comment

March is Women’s History Month. This celebration was initially inspired by the March 8th 1857 protest by women factory workers in  New York City over working conditions. As a consequence,  International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909. It wasn’t until 1981 that Congress established National Women’s History Week  in the U.S. to be [...]

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Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Ernest Lawrence accepts Nobel Prize in physics for the cyclotron

February 28th, 2010 · Add a Comment

Today in History – February 29, 1940 – The Nobel Prize in Physics was presented to Ernest Lawrence “for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements”. Due to WWII, the prize could not be awarded in Sweden and was awarded instead in [...]

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Tags: Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering · General Engineering, Engineering Science · Nuclear Engineering

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