Leaders in Engineering: Present & Future

A recent article from the International Business Times takes a look at the lack of women CEOs in the field of technology.

However, the article does profile females such as Judith Estrin (director of JLABS), Sandra Kurtzig (founder of ASK Group), and Carol Bartz (CEO of Yahoo!). Several up and coming females in the tech field are highlighted and the suggestion is made that this will encourage more women to aspire for management positions.

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Popular Science recently profiled the 2011 class of high school inventors. The feature discusses each of the student’s research and highlights their future educational plans.

More than half of the ten high school students plan to studying engineering or related fields in computer science, physics, and bio-chemistry. Click here to read about their research which includes discoveries related to improved efficiency of algae derived biofuel, active noise cancellation for human-robot speech interaction, a smartphone water-quality tester, and more.

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Electrical engineers at the University of Southern California’s Immersive Audio Lab are researching ways to “shape the sound of music to conform to the space in which it is played.”

Read the full article to learn about the study of sound perception by the human auditory system at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering.

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