Making News, September 2010

In a recent survey of more than 100,000 students for the 2011 edition of the Princeton Review’s Best 373 Colleges, four of the top five schools in the category of “students study the most” were engineering colleges.”

This survey supports the belief that engineers work harder than other students in college. Associate dean for academic programs and associate professor at Olin College of Engineering, Mark Somerville, Ph.D. (TX A ’90), said, “If you take the simple metric of how many credit hours are required for an engineering degree, and how many of those are in fairly intensive technical classes… there’s a radical difference (compared to other degrees of study).”

Olin ranked fifth in the study category. Read the article for more on the results of the survey.

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The San Francisco Business Times profiled Zinc Air, Inc., for licensing “zinc air fuel cell” technology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The new technology is for use in electric vehicles as a substitute for standard lithium batteries. Click here to read the article, for more information on Zinc Air and the developing technology

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Philip S. Kurtz, TX E ’03, is a candidate running for the state senate seat in District 17 of Texas. Learn more here

Mr. Kurtz is currently an account manager for Puritan Services an Ecolab Corp. He has previously been a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives (2008) and the Texas State Senate (2006). He is running as a libertarian party candidate.

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