by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog, News
Yesterday, the National Academy of Engineering presented THREE half-million dollar prizes. One, the Draper Prize, is considered the “Nobel Prize of Engineering” (there is no Nobel for engineering, even though Nobel himself was an engineer). And the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 5, 2009 | Blog, News
Thanks, Bart, for letting me know about this clever video. Future engineers! Speaking of engineers, a friend who works at the National Academy of Engineering suggested I ammend the title of Science Cheerleader and Science Debate to include the word...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 24, 2008 | Blog, Citizen Science
In Friday’s post, I asked readers this: What do you think the federal government should do to prepare K-12 students for the science and technology driven 21st Century? (One of seven questions recently presented to Congress by a consortium of science...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 13, 2008 | Citizen Science, Social network science
If you’re anything like millions of other adult Americans, you were of legal drinking age before you learned that all engineers do not work on trains. Engineers are the source of technology. They take scientists’ basic (and critical) research and they...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 7, 2008 | Citizen Science, Science Policy
Recently, I came across the Technically Speaking website, which takes a look at the benefits and challenges of developing a more tech savvy citizenry. The website is a project of the National Academy of Engineering whose mission it is to “promote the...
