Princeton chapter wins national EWB award

By On February 22, 2013 · In Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, civil engineering, engineering education, Keller Center, School of Engineering and Applied Science

The United States Engi­neers With­out Bor­ders orga­ni­za­tion has named Princeton’s EWB chap­ter a 2013 Pre­mier Project win­ner for its library project in Ashaiman, Ghana. In the sum­mer of 2011, five stu­dents from Prince­ton Engi­neers With­out Bor­ders trav­eled to Ashaiman, to fin­ish the con­struc­tion of a com­mu­nity library. This trip was the cul­mi­na­tion of […]

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Princeton ranked third world-wide among engineering schools

By On October 14, 2011 · In Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, engineering education, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Times Higher Edu­ca­tion has just pub­lished its world uni­ver­sity rank­ings, with Prince­ton ranked third among engi­neer­ing schools. The top five engi­neer­ing schools are Cal­tech, MIT, Prince­ton, UC-Berkeley, and Stan­ford (in that order).

Prince­ton Engi­neer­ing has expe­ri­enced extra­or­di­nary growth of late. Dur­ing the past six years, spon­sored research has […]

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Circa 1962: Senior independent work and the importance of engineering in a liberal arts setting

By On September 14, 2010 · In Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Keller Center, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Princeton’s Mudd library has posted a 1962 instruc­tional film for stu­dents who were serv­ing as cam­pus tour guides.

At first what is strik­ing about this film (above) is how much the Prince­ton under­grad­u­ate expe­ri­ence has changed in less than 50 years. For one, thing Prince­ton stu­dents are a much more cos­mopoli­tan group, taking […]

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Paper and peer review here to stay, at least for now

By On February 20, 2007 · In Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, electrical engineering

The tra­di­tion of peer-reviewed jour­nals in the sci­ences has been much in the news recently, as online pub­lish­ing and com­mu­nally edited wikis threaten tra­di­tional forms of publishing.

A panel of dis­tin­guished researchers debated the future of the peer-reviewed jour­nal recently on a lively panel orga­nized by

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Princeton DARPA team gears up for urban challenge

By On February 7, 2007 · In Center for Innovation in Engineering Education

The story of how Princeton’s under­grad­u­ate team made it to the fiercely com­pet­i­tive DARPA Grand Chal­lenge finals in 2005 is wor­thy of a Hol­ly­wood screen­play. Princeton’s self-driving truck didn’t win (a soft­ware glitch did them in) but their heroic efforts drew media cov­er­age and acclaim.

Now the under­dog team is back at […]

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Jamieson forecasts the future of engineering education

By On February 2, 2007 · In Center for Innovation in Engineering Education

What skills will the engi­neer of the future need?

Leah Jamieson, a keynote speaker at Design­Con 2007 this week, said that in addi­tion to impart­ing superb tech­ni­cal skills, engi­neer­ing schools must reward inge­nu­ity and flex­i­bil­ity and give stu­dents oppor­tu­ni­ties to develop lead­er­ship and busi­ness skills.

Jamieson, who received her doc­tor­ate from Princeton […]

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