Engineering News Today: July 2009

The National Science Foundation has awarded Marquette University with a $900,000 grant to recruit and educate students majoring in the STEM fields to become K-12 math and science teachers.

Undergraduate students at Marquette majoring in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields can get up to three years of scholarships. For every year a scholarship is accepted, the student must work for two years in a high-need school after graduation.

M. Barbara Silver-Thorn (IL G ’85), associate professor at Marquette, said, ” This is an opportunity to get STEM majors in high-need school and make their students aware of valuable engineering, science, and math career opportunities.”
Read the article

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A group of engineering students at the University of Michigan have developed a new way to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

IEDs are often the weapons of suicide bombers and cause major casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The students’ device is a “palm-sized metal detector designed to be part of a wireless sensor network” to alert base stations of suspicious objects.

The UM students recently won an Air Force-sponsored competition with Ohio State University. They will continue working on their project through the summer.
Read the full news release

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The 10th International Submarine Races (ISR) were held last week in Bethesda, Maryland. There were eighteen schools (college and high school) competing from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Venezuela.

“Sublime,” the submarine from Hernando County Schools in Florida, won the Overall Performance Award based on 17 categories. Second place went to “Talon-1” from Florida Atlantic University.

Read the USA Today’s coverage of the event and read the
news release of complete results.

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