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Henry Ford Community College To Offer Hands-On Engineering Course

18 Wednesday Dec 2013

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The Dearborn (MI) Press and Guide (12/17, Hetrick) reports Henry Ford Community College believes more hands-on courses will increase students interest in engineering careers. The college will offer two Project Lead the Way courses for dual-enrollment students currently in high school. Chad Richert, who will teach Introduction to Engineering Design, said in his “class students will get a problem to solve.” Jeff Whittaker, who will teach Principles of Engineering, said his class will give students a basic understanding of robotic

Hackbright Academy Places Female Coders In Their Own League.

13 Sunday Oct 2013

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The San Francisco Chronicle (9/26, Floum) reports on the Hackbright Academy. The academy teaches “women how to program in a supportive, all-female environment.” In its first year, the San Francisco ten-week crash course graduated close to eighty female software engineers. The article notes that “55 women graduated with computer science or related bachelor’s degrees from UC Berkeley, and 27 women graduated with computer science degrees from Stanford in 2012,” according to the American Society for Engineering Education.

Under the headline, “Why Aren’t Women Interested in Computer Science?,” the Wall Street Journal (9/25) “Digits” blog reported the number of women pursuing computer jobs has been falling. Women made up 27 percent of computer jobs in 2011, but the number has fallen since 1990 when it was on 34 percent.

US Must Educate More Female Engineers, Professor Of Mechanical Engineering Writes.

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

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In US News & World Report (9/17) Amy Fleischer, PhD., a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University and the Director of the Novatherm Laboratory, wrote that if our nation does not acknowledge that America’s lack of “is not an ability-driven gap but instead a pervasive socialization problem that begins at the earliest ages, then we will continue to alienate and exclude half our population from these critical fields.” Fleischer wrote that “it is overt social pressures that continue to steer most girls away from these fields despite their natural talents and abilities.” She wrote that if the US wants to continue its “dominance in technology development and secure our nation’s economic future, it is absolutely imperative that we educate thousands more engineers.”