The 2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded today to Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Natalie Linnell, Craig Prince and members of the development team from the University of Washington for Classroom Presenter.

The award was presented at the Premier Award Ceremony at the Frontiers in Education Conference, held this year in Saratoga […]

Today in History - October 18, 1962 - Watson, Crick, and Wilkins receive Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA as a double helix. They first proposed their model for the structure of DNA in 1953. As this model was composed of two right-handed, antiparallel, polynucleotide chains coiled around a common axis it is sometimes referred […]

Today in History - October 14, 1947 - First supersonic flight. The research program that led to this accomplishment started in 1946 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) [now National Aeronautics and Space Administration], the Army Air Forces, and Bell Aircraft Inc. They built two XS-1 experimental research aircraft to conduct pioneering tests at […]

Today in History - October 11, 1984 - Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. Sullivan became an astronaut in 1979 and has been on three space flights:  STS-41G (October 5-13, 1984), STS-31 (April 24-29, 1990) and STS-45 (March 24-April 2, […]