Former governor (and Martin Center namesake and board member) Jim Martin recently called for meeting North Carolina’s decarbonization goals and reliable electricity needs by deploying a nuclear-energy technology known as … Continue reading “Can Higher Ed Provide the Nuclear Workforce North Carolina Needs?”
To the editor: A recent essay in the JMC (“A Better Way to Teach Law,” 17 August), generated much constructive, professional feedback. There is one correspondent who brought up an … Continue reading “Author’s response to recent Letter to the Editor”
Being both a US-trained lawyer and having formerly held a professional engineer’s license, I have some personal knowledge of both the engineering and legal professions. The author misunderstands an engineer’s … Continue reading “Engineering education requirements aren’t all that different from law”
In 2015, Colorado School of Mines writing instructor Dr. Jon Leydens delivered a TED talk titled “engineering and social justice.” According to Leydens, in the mid-2000s students started asking him … Continue reading “The Rise of Engineering’s Social Justice Warriors”
We engineers like to solve technical problems. That’s the way we think, that’s why we chose our major, that’s why we got into and stayed in engineering. There are several … Continue reading “Engineering Education: Social Engineering Rather than Actual Engineering “
Campbell University starts a new engineering program in its effort to become a regional force in higher education.
Conventional wisdom has it that America desperately needs more STEM graduates, but “it just ain’t so.”