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 ...

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 ...

Engineering is about more than just churning through equations, and Chuck Stricker wants people to realize that. That talent in math is the defining trait needed to become an engineer is a myth that ...

Women and minorities have changed the face of space exploration, saved lives through targeted chemotherapy treatments, and built robots that can three-dimensionally print human tissue. Yet, these ...

Have you ever felt outnumbered? Like there are just not that many people like you around? One group that may experience this kind of threat is women who participate in math, science and engineering ...

Many parents are pulling double or even triple duty right now: working, parenting, and teaching. That can be really daunting. And even when some students begin “virtual learning,” they’ll likely turn ...

SLU-Madrid mathematics courses meet the needs of students with a wide variety of interests. The department offers several introductory courses to satisfy the core curriculum requirements, as well as ...

(Fort Knox, Ky.) A group of fourth graders are asked, "What does Batman have to do with engineering?" Engineer Jeremy Nichols, Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District, then proceeds to tell them ...

To properly answer the question "What is a chemical engineering degree?" we have to examine each component of the broad field. Chemical engineering combines the sciences, math, and various engineering ...

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 ...