Technology can refer to both the tools we use, and the skills and knowledge used to create them; because of that duality, it is possible and often desirable for the technologist to create a tool, with embedded technology that effectively shields the user from the...
An easy icebreaker when talking about STEM college education is to ask “What are the best colleges for ____ majors?” The key to answering that question is the quality of the school’s education – the nuts and bolts of what they teach and how, using what resources...
So, you took freshman chemistry. Then organic chemistry. And AP chemistry. Along the way you discovered you really enjoy being in the lab, weighing and measuring, titrating and subliming…and maybe you could actually do this on a pro level.One of the major divisions in...
When I hear students discussing college admissions for liberal arts degrees, and what they would learn, I often hear the term ‘critical thinking skills’. Well, no matter what you want to do in life, you need these. Let’s deconstruct the phrase: ‘skills’ means a level...
When I hear a parent talk about their student going into engineering, my first question is ‘what branch of engineering interests them?’ which often results in a blank look. To help my readers with this question, I’m going to be writing about different engineering...
