Today in History - December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a bus in Montgomery and galvanized the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks showed the world that a single courageous act could positively change the course of history. How can we use engineering and human-centered technologies to positively impact [...]

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Encouraging young people to make a difference in the world through an engineering career is more likely to attract them than emphasizing the challenges of math and science. This is the major message of the recently published report of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) titled Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of [...]

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K-12 Engineering Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.
The Engineering Pathway has initiated a photo competition to highlight image thumbnails of its cataloged resources. The main K-Gray pages will use these highlighted resources and their images in a banner near the top of the page — a K-12 resource will [...]

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Today in History - November 16, 1965 - Walt Disney launches the EPCOT Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow. As Walt Disney originally envisioned it, the EPCOT Center (which stood for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”) would be the key component of Walt Disney World - a working “city of the future” with residential, shopping and [...]

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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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