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5 coding exercises that improved my problem-solving skills

Any task that tests your mental muscles is a step in the right direction when improving your problem-solving skills. While ...
MIT Technology Review

Reimagining our pandemic problems with the mindset of an engineer

Grappling with all the uncertainty, the epidemiologist’s role during the pandemic proved confusingly complex. A more pragmatic, problem-solving mindset might help in making good decisions. The last 20 ...
Science Daily

These mesmerizing patterns are secretly solving hard problems

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...
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Bucknell Professor Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Grant to Expand Research Demystifying Engineering Intuition

Bucknell University Professor Elif Miskioǧlu, chemical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award — the agency's most prestigious and ...
WGBH

Solving Community Problems with Engineering (SCoPE)

Rural youth are uniquely attached to their communities and may be discouraged from pursuing engineering careers because of the misconception that they would have to leave their communities to do so.
Electronic Specifier

How can children use LEGO to develop engineering skills?

LEGO can be an essential tool in mechanical engineering as it is a form of what the field calls low-fidelity prototyping.