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Author Archives: Jon Marcus
SFO-BOS: The Geekiest Flight in the Air?
The guy in 28C works for a cutting-edge Boston-based energy company with California clients whose name is a collection of random-seeming consonants and vowels that sounds like a parody from Office Space. He flies this route only once a quarter, which makes him pretty much an interloper on the Boston-San Francisco nonstop. But somewhere over Colorado, he pulls out a …
Stanford Builds Strong Innovators with New “Design Thinking” Curriculum
PALO ALTO, California—The skylit atrium that serves as the centerpiece of Stanford University’s d.school spans two of the campus’s stately old red-tile-roofed, Spanish Revival-style academic buildings. It’s a metaphor for the way the center, spun off by the School of Engineering, bridges other parts of the university to teach something that was once believed innate: how to think like an …
After Boston: How Our Personal Devices are Changing Forensics
Alongside all of the other wrenching events associated with the Boston Marathon bombing is the indisputable reality that smartphone technology and social media have vastly changed the nature of forensics. And, with help from tech volunteers, the marathon tragedy is giving this field a huge leap forward. It wasn’t even an hour and a half after the blasts, while efforts …
R&D Budget Cuts Could Leave US Trailing Behind
Remember the sequester? The $85 billion in federal budget cuts that were supposed to jolt Washington into figuring out a solution to the escalating debt? The ones that almost no one has ended up noticing against the backdrop of the usual political dysfunction? They’re about to take a big bite out of innovation. Federal agencies that pay for a third …
Engineering for Humanity: Local Students and Seniors Team Up
The first time Shubhangini Prakash had to propel herself to the bathroom in a wheelchair at a local council on aging activities center, she almost gave up in frustration. Prakash was only sampling what life was like for people with limited mobility. But she says it was her “aha” moment. “I never realized how hard it is,” the 27-year-old MBA …
High Demand for Civil Engineers as Infrastructure Repairs Become Critical
Between the endless fiscal problems, the divisive politics, and the response from the thirsty Republican senator, it was easy to miss one of the most dramatic moments of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. And there’s a pretty good chance it directly affected viewers on their morning commutes the next day. Seventy-thousand bridges in America are structurally deficient, …
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Engineers and Scientists Get the Gift of the Gab
Bob the Stem Cell, all squiggly lines and eyes, stares out from under a hard hat at an audience of 500 people in Dublin’s Smock Alley Theatre. “He was a construction worker once, and built up all our bodies,” the presenter, Thomas Schwarzl, is explaining, one hand on a microphone and the other gesturing at Bob, whose caricature is projected …
Bid to Boost Women Engineers Abroad Works Both Ways
When 42 technology-minded women from the Middle East and North Africa were paired up with mentors from the United States, it was hard to tell who learned more from the experience. TechWomen, a little-known annual initiative, pushed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and just wrapping up its second year, is set up to encourage African and middle-eastern women to …
Mathematical Improbability? How Santa Delivers All Those Toys
Write a holiday blog, and make it appealing to engineers. That was my assignment for this month. I thought about doing the usual fare, top 10 gifts and best-of-the-year lists, but that’s too easy. Instead, I’m going to focus on something much more pressing: Does Santa Claus really exist? And if so, how can he possibly deliver all those toys …
STEM Makes Its Way into Elementary Schools
A sudden hush comes over the Thomas Hart Benton Elementary School every morning as the principal reads a riddle over the public-address system. “With ‘ro,’ it’s gone, you’ve nothing, all right,” he says slowly, as little hands write down the clue with pencils on wide-lined paper. “With ‘bra,’ a black horse, with stripes of white.” All day long, children who …
