Engineering FYI, September 2011

In response to President Barack Obama’s job council calling for more engineers, a group of 40 “companies have agreed to double the number of engineering internships they offer.”

The article from The New York Times, details the plans which call for 10,000 more American engineers graduating each year for a total of about 130,000 annual engineering graduates. The other focus in on K-12 STEM education and making math and science more appealing to young people.

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Sports Illustrated has highlighted Rudy Kahsar, VA A 2010, for winning the overall triathlon title at the age group national championships. He also won the collegiate national championships in April, becoming the first athlete to win both titles in the same year. Read more here

Kahsar is currently studying chemical engineering as a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Marquette University has opened a new Engineering Hall with capabilities of research an innovation unlike the traditional classrooms of the previous engineering building. Read the article

The Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported on the first phase of the new building. Chairman of Marquette’s civil, environmental and construction engineering department, Dr. Chris Foley, P.E. (WI B ’86), says, “our lives are changed forever with the new building, with the labs that are in it – and so are the city and the state.”

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