A great profile of Clark Scholar Mackenzie Sicard featured on the Georgia Tech website
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Here are the winners of Baltimore’s 2019 Technical.ly Awards Awards
To close out Baltimore Innovation Week’s Dev Day on Wednesday, Technical.ly celebrated the folks who are building in Baltimore — whether it’s companies, partnerships or a new autonomous system that can deliver a human organ via drone.
UMD Welcomes New Class of Distinguished A. James Clark Scholars
The A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland welcomes 10 exceptional young engineers from across the state of Maryland as its newest class of A. James Clark Scholars. The students selected for this highly distinguished program represent some of the most promising scholars of the Clark School’s freshman class of 2019–20.
Finding Purpose and Meaning in the First Year—and Beyond
New course helps Duke Engineering first-year students develop skills to thrive in school and in life
Class of 2023 A. James Clark Scholars Arrive at Duke
Ten engineering students from seven states selected for competitive scholarship program focused on leadership, service and entrepreneurship
Here’s what’s going on with UMD’s biggest campus construction projects
There’s several projects undergoing construction on the University of Maryland’s campus. Here’s some updates on a handful of the biggest ones.
Stevens Breaks 200 Million in Endowments
Stevens Institute of Technology has reached a record-breaking $207M endowment in Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18), according to a new report. Endowment gifts are “typically comprised of cash or securities, or sometimes real estate or assets,” which are given to a university by individuals, charitable organizations, and sometimes other institutions.
2019 EngineerGirl Ambassadors
During the 2019-2020 academic year, each Ambassador will implement a project she designed and developed to encourage younger girls – particularly those with little access to engineering role models – to think about engineering careers and give them practical experience in engineering design. You can read quick summaries of each ambassador’s project on the 2019 Ambassador Profiles page. Each ambassador will work with a local sponsors and receive guidance and support from EngineerGirl staff.
EngineerGirl Announces 2019 Class of Student Ambassadors
The National Academy of Engineering today announced the new class of the EngineerGirl Ambassadors program. The 16 selected ambassadors will participate in a yearlong program designed to build leadership skills in female high school students by helping them promote engineering to younger students in their community.
Virginia Tech College of Engineering honored for diversity progress
The Virginia Tech College of Engineering is among the first in the country to earn a bronze award and only one of 29 institutions that received exemplar status from the American Society for Engineering Education in its inaugural year of their Diversity Recognition Program.
The program was created to recognize engineering and engineering technology colleges that make significant, measurable progress in increasing diversity, inclusion, and degree attainment outcomes of their programs, according to the ASEE website.