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 […]
The current issue of Chemical Engineering Education features a lovely profile of Pablo Debenedetti, the vice dean of the School of Engineering and Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science.
The profile delineates Debenedetti’s many significant scholarly achievements (he was inducted into the National Academy of […]
H. Vincent Poor, dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, this week received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.
Poor is a leading researcher in the areas of statistical signal processing, stochastic analysis and information theory — particularly as […]
Today’s Daily Princetonian has some nice coverage on the election of four Princeton faculty members to the National Academy of Sciences — which, as the Prince notes, has been described as “an honor considered second only to a Nobel Prize.”
Two of the new NAS members are with the school of engineering:
Given the big She Roars pow-wow this week, it seems a good time to take stock of how much things have changed regarding women in engineering at Princeton.
In 1970, women earned less than 1 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees nationwide. Today at Princeton women comprise more […]
Princeton Engineering’s Howard A. Stone and Ed Felten have just been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Other members elected to the academy this year include jazz icon Dave Brubeck, filmmaker Ken Burns, singer-songwriter Paul Simon, actor Sam Waterston, and […]
The video above gives a fresh overview of Princeton’s Grand Challenges initiative, which helps faculty and students tackle some of the world’s pressing problems, from climate and energy to sustainable development and global health.
The initiative is a collaboration between the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the
What happens when humans behave as if they were schooling fish or swarming insects or flocking birds?
Well, we are about to find out. Engineering professor Naomi Ehrich Leonard ’85 and choreographer Susan Marshall are conspiring with a creative group of undergraduates to host
The Daily Princetonian recently highlighted annual summer working trips that the university’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been making since 2004 to the Peruvian village of Huamanzaña.
EWB projects there have ranged from improving communal bathroom facilities to installing solar power generators.
Every proposal for community improvement […]
Princeton Engineering graduate Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently went mano-a-mano with Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report….
In other engineering alumni news: Nick Frey has launched Boo Bicycles… … Paul Johnson has been named dean of engineering at Arizona State […]
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EQN is a blog from Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science that highlights faculty, students and alumni who, through innovation and leadership, are changing the world.
Recent Entries
- Starshade deploys for first time
- Hale ’11 and Ohlendorf ’05 shine in the major leagues
- Flood risk study receives $2.3 million Rockefeller Foundation grant
- Ice cream social August 9 to feature vintage technology
- Jennifer Rexford ’91 one of top 10 ‘cloud trailblazers’
- Dan Boneh *96 wins prize for advances in cryptography
- Computer science researchers untangle a hairy problem
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- Dean H. Vincent Poor elected fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Bob Kahn wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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