Engineering FYI, April 2012

John H. Scudder, NY U 2012, has been presented a “Tomorrow’s Leader” award by the Aviation Week. Scudder is a mechanical engineering major and cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. After graduation, he plans on attending flight school at Ft. Rucker (AL) and becoming a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army. Read the article from the Appleton Post Crescent

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The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported on the growing trend of colleges and universities making basic computer science a required course. Georgia Tech and Montclair State University are both cited as universities that require students to have a computer science credit in order to graduate.

In the article, the author questions whether this requirement meets the need for students to understand how to undertake “work that gets a computer to work beyond its basic feature set.”

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Real Estate Weekly has announced that Eastern Consolidated has hired two new associates, both of whom were former business owners. One of the new hires is Olivia Wu, KY B ’95, as associate director. She is the founder and president of Berkeley Global, a commercial real estate brokerage firm.

She obtained her BS degree in engineering math and computer science from the University of Louisville. For more information, read the full press announcement

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