Engineering

Happy (Belated) 157th Birthday to Nikola Tesla, One of the Greatest Inventors

Jul 11, 2013 by Sarah Campbell in About, Engineering Comments Off

We could use up this whole post with simple list of all the things in your house that are the direct result of inventions of Nikola Tesla. Turn on a…

Be a Cicada Tracker and Stalk the East Coast Brood II

Mar 26, 2013 by Sarah Campbell in Cicadas, Engineering, Experiments at home, Family activity, Insects, Nature study, Outdoor activity, Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM), Seasons, Weather Comments Off

Sounds like a horror movie, doesn’t it? Cicada Wars: Stalking the East Coast Brood II. Harmless as they may be, a million of any winged insect swarming in your yard…

Do You Have an Appetite for Invention? MAKE announces First Annual Raspberry Pi Contest

Mar 14, 2013 by Sarah Campbell in Engineering, Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Comments Off

Attention engineers! On this Pi Day (3/14, get it?) we came across this contest that is for the engineers among us who are both well acquainted with and creative about…

It’s Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, so Meet Katherine Bicer, a Materials Scientist Who Keeps Helicopters Flying

Feb 21, 2013 by Sarah Campbell in Desperate Case of the Diamond Chip, Engineering, Materials Science, Pendred Noyce, Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Comments Off

It’s National Engineering week, and today is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. If you don’t have an engineer lying around the house somewhere (some of us do), how about…