The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has an ambitious and dedicated public outreach program to extend their mission to both their members and those who might wish to learn more about their work. Here, interested parties can read a variety of publications, including the "ASEE Connections Newsletter," "First Bell Newsletter," "Capitol Shorts Newsletter," and "The Accelerator...

From the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE), this website features Square of Life, "an Internet-based project in which students will investigate their local environment and share that information with other students from around the country and the world." The project is recommended for elementary school students, but allows participants of all ages. Square of Life is a...

Look at the form of a trunnion bascule bridge for a moment and you will realize it is a unique and wonderful thing. Engineered structures like this, and thousands of others, represent the best in human ingenuity and discovery. Engineering in the Modern World, a digital collection presented by the Princeton University Digital Library, brings together three remarkable items that document some of...

The National Engineers Week Future City Competition provides “a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a ‘hands-on’ application to present their vision of a city of the future.” The competition is intended to foster engineering skills, such as teamwork, communication and problem solving skills,...

This introductory engineering textbook on heat and mass transfer, written by John H. Lienhard IV, Professor at University of Houston and John H. Lienhard IV, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is now available online without charge. One aim of this project is to "explore the possibilities of placing textbooks online." The idea is that the online format holds two key benefits --...

These fun, intelligent, and engaging videos were created by scientist Jonathan Hare to be used in schools, workshops, and in home-study with accompanying information. On the site, visitors can make their way through 25 short films that explore the worlds of infrared photography, light beams, parabolic light collectors, generators, and seawater batteries. The videos are about five minutes long, and...

Engineering can be a difficult subject, and bringing together groups to create new technologies in energy production, bioengineering, and communications can present a wide range of logistical challenges. This fine course from MIT's OpenCourseWare presents materials from the spring 2010 version of Professor Lionel C. Kimerling's "Principles of Engineering Practice", and it tackles some of these...

The Open Course Consortium has many distinguished educational partners and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is among their number. Their OpenCourseWare page brings together dozens of courses from their College of Engineering, School of Management, and the College of Science and Liberal Arts. A short selection of these courses includes Documentary Studies, Introduction to Optical...

More organizations are getting involved with STEM education, and the people at PBS have created this one-stop resource center for educators seeking to "explore new ideas and new worlds related to science." This site contains over 4,000 STEM-related resources drawn from a range of PBS programs, including NOVA, Nature, and Cyberchase. On the right-hand side of the homepage, visitors will find seven...

Professor Richard M. Felder has been involved in teaching engineering for over thirty years, and his column has appeared in the journal, Chemical Engineering, since 1988. Professor Felder retired several years ago, but he has made a point of continuing with his rather timely and useful updates about the world of teaching in the college classroom. Visitors to this site can scan through some of his...