One hundred years ago, on April 18, 1906, the San Francisco Earthquake wreaked havoc in the San Francisco Bay area. The earthquake and resulting fire are thought to have caused thousands of deaths. A hundred years later, researchers at WSU continue to strive to improve construction techniques so that buildings and other structures hold up […]
WSU researchers have been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that seeks to improve student interest in math in secondary grades and to help understand the factors affecting student interest in engineering and science careers. These questions have become of increasing importance in the last few years as the number […]
Ah, poetry in the springtime, love and… materials science and engineering?Unlikely as it sounds, the WSU student chapter of the Materials Research Society is holding a poetry contest to celebrate materials in engineering.“For an engineering club to hold a poetry contest is perfect,” said David Field, advisor to the student club and associate professor in […]
WSU researcher Denny Davis and colleagues have been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that seeks to improve student interest in math in secondary grades and better understand the factors affecting student interest in engineering and science careers.These questions have become of increasing importance in the last few years as […]
Faculty who want to work with keen, diligent undergraduate students can be hindered by many obstacles. Time, money and logistics -— how to find the right students and how to get them (if they’re not already at WSU) to campus — are among the most daunting. But WSU’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) […]
PULLMAN – Three finalists have been named and invited to visit campus in January in the search to succeed Anjon Bose as dean of the Washington State University College of Engineering and Architecture. Selected by a search committee of the WSU Office of the Provost, the three finalists are Jinglu Tan, interim chair for the […]
WSU film crews taped the process of structural splits and cracks during a Wood Materials and Engineering simulation at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 7.The simulation, headed up by Dan Dolan, a WSU professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Scott Lewis, research associate at the Wood Materials and Engineering Lab, demonstrated natural disasters’ effects on […]
Edward Lumsdaine, author of the book “Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Effective Problem Solving” will be giving the first annual Harold Frank Engineering Entrepreneurship Institute lecture on at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept 22. in Carpenter 102 on the Pullman campus of Washington State University.Lumsdaine will speak on “Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Competitiveness: Why Are They Important to Your […]
Engineers are essential for industry to keep a competitive edge in the global marketplace. But American students are less and less interested in entering the field compared to their foreign counterparts. Working to change that on a national level is Norman Fortenberry, director of the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for the Advancement of Scholarship […]
PULLMAN — Candis Claiborn has accepted the post of interim dean of Washington State University’s College of Engineering and Architecture. Claiborn, who is currently the college’s associate dean for research and graduate programs and a professor of civil and environmental engineering, will begin her new duties Aug. 16. “I am very pleased that Dr. Claiborn, […]