The School of Engineering and Applied Science is hosting an ice cream social Friday, August 9, at 4:30 p.m. in the Friend Center Atrium on the Princeton University campus. Professor Michael Littman will do a show and tell with antique motorcycles, telephones, phonographs, radios, and more from his marvelous collection of […]
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 […]
James Wei has written a new book on Great Inventions that Changed the World. The book is written for a lay audience and covers inventions in a wide range of fields, from medicine and communications to music and painting.
The book grows out of an freshman course Wei taught at Princeton […]
The Times Higher Education has just issued its list of top 50 engineering schools for 2012-13, and Princeton’s School of Engineering is ranked number 2, after Caltech and ahead of MIT, University of California-Berkeley, and Stanford.
Princeton Engineering was ranked number 3 in last year’s line-up.
When making its […]
Mung Chiang publishes new book on ‘Networked Life’
Cambridge University Press this month has released a new book by Mung Chiang titled Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers. Driven by twenty real-world questions — from how Google figures out what to charge for ads to why Skype and BitTorrent don’t cost you a cent — this […]
Anne-Marie Slaughter‘s cover story in the Atlantic magazine debunking the idea that women can “have it all” was on the mind of two high-profile academics who recently spoke about women in science and engineering at the 2012 Women in Theory conference at Princeton in late June.
Joan Girgus, professor of psychology Princeton, largely concurred with […]
SwoopTEXT sweeps media
SwoopTEXT, a student communication platform invented by two 2011 Princeton graduates that enables instant and targeted group communication via text message, is getting a lot of play in the media of late.
The platform was Invented by Michael Perl, who majored in chemistry, and Michael Keaton, who majored in chemical and […]
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 […]
Humanitarian News recently featured the Ghana library being built in Ashaiman by the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
Judging from EWB’s blog, the crew has made tremendous progress this summer. EWB members plan to finish construction of the library, to outfit it with furniture and […]
Jordan Culbreath, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major whose stoic struggle with a rare type of anemia has been chronicled by The New York Times and ESPN, is now the subject of a short documentary. The new film will premiere April 26 at Princeton’s […]
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