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Berners-Lee named 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering

June 23, 2008

Internet pioneer Timothy Berners-Lee has been named the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering Dean Subra Suresh announced this week.

Berners-Lee is widely recognized with having created the World Wide Web. He proposed his concept for the Web in 1989 while at the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ), launched it on the Internet in 1991 and continued to refine its design through 1993. In 1994, the British native joined the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT to be director of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), an open, international forum that develops standards for the Web.

Suresh said that as a member of the faculty, Berners-Lee will focus his research efforts on the social and technical aspects of collaborative applications running on large-scale networks like the Web, and on the Semantic Web-an extension of the Web in which the semantics of information and services on the Web is captured. In addition to research activities in these areas and on other extensions to the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee also plans to develop, jointly with several other institutions around the world, new curricular material for Web Science, which will involve close interactions between computer science, the social sciences and technology application deployment.

Berners-Lee has received many honors for his work, including honorary degrees from Oxford, Columbia and eight other universities; being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering; being honored by the Queen, and holding the OBE ( Officer of the Order of the British Empire ), the KBE ( Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ) and the OM ( Order of Merit limited to the Queen and 24 other members, the highest civilian honor in Great Britain ); and winning the Japan Prize, the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize, the NAE’s Charles Stark Draper Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Whittle Medal.

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Chaminade University of Honolulu Adds Masters in Engineering Management

May 16, 2008

Chaminade University of Honolulu will expand its advanced degree programs this fall with a master’s degree in engineering management.

The new program will be a partnership with the University of Dayton in Ohio, and will add to six other master’s degrees offered at Chaminade.

Classes will teach management and leadership theory tailored to the engineering field, and be held at Chaminade’s Honolulu campus and via interactive video from the Ohio university.

Chaminade does not offer an undergraduate degree in engineering, so the courses are intended for practicing engineers.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.

On the Web at www.chaminade.edu.

 

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April 2, 2008

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Engineering and Construction Companies On The Rise

April 1, 2008

Stocks are up after better than expected financial reports, according to a CNNMoney brief. While construction spending slowed slightly, due to the housing downturn, investors were encouraged that the news wasn’t as bad as expected.

Read the CNNMoney Sector Snap HERE

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Number of Engineering Degrees Declining in the US

March 18, 2008

According to a February report by Engineering Trends and reported on by EETimes.com, overall enrollment at U.S. engineering schools is stable the actual number of engineering degrees is declining.

The attrition rate of for engineering students appears to be increasing from sophomores on up, with numbers showing declines in for at least the past three academic years.

One explanation offered by Paul Kostek, IEEE-USA’s vice president of communications, is that there is a perceived decrease in engineering employment due to outsourcing and a slowing economy that is leading to a decrease in enrollment and engineering graduates.

However, this could not be further from the truth. Engineering jobs are readily available in many parts of the country and qualified engineers (as well as entry level engineers fresh out of college) are in high demand to fill positions

In addition, an aging U.S. engineering workforce puts the supply of experienced engineers on the brink of collapse. As baby-boomer engineers retire, engineering students who persevere will find high-paying engineering jobs waiting for them upon graduation.

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