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, [...]

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Today in History – February 2, 1897 – Ice cream scoop patented by Alfred L. Cralle, the first African-American in Pittsburgh to receive a patent. His patent became the model for ice cream scoops in households soon after and the basis for many scoops today. Cralle was born in Lunenberg County, Virginia on September [...]

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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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