As a rookie engineer in my first job, my boss presented me with a pile of notebooks that belonged to a recently retired senior engineer. He asked me to distill the most common calculations in them ...

Princeton Professor Andrew Houck’s calculus students had just finished grappling with a set of equations on the forces of tension and gravity when he pulled a large pendulum back to his shoulder and ...

The students huddled around their tables, scribbling and erasing their notes, nodding and shaking their heads and rearranging the blocks in front of them. “There has to be a hole in the middle.” “We ...

If you are a new engineering first-year student starting in the fall semester, you will most likely be pre-enrolled in an Applied Math (APPM) pre-calculus or calculus course based on patterns of prior ...

WIESBADEN, Germany - More than 40 students from Wiesbaden middle and high schools participated in this year's Engineers Week events, hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District. During ...

When I talk with young people about science and engineering I try to use everyday examples, but often come up with something too complicated, which leads to a lengthy, confusing explanation. This ...

Re: “The left’s attack on math and objective standards” (Nov. 14): As someone who has retired from a long and productive engineering career, I am saddened that columnist Susan Shelley does not ...