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Engineering degrees are as wide and varied as the potential careers on offer out in the real world. There’s plenty of maths to learn, and a cavalcade of tough topics, from thermodynamics to fluid mechanics. However, the real challenge is the capstone project. Generally taking place in the senior year …read more
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It’s often said that engineers aren’t born, they’re made. Or more accurately, taught, tested, and accredited by universities. If you’re in high school, you’re probably starting to think about potential career paths and may be considering an engineering degree. A lot of work goes into a good college application, and …read more
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Heading off to college comes with its own set of challenges. Harder course material, living away from home for the first time, and dealing with roommates are common hurdles to overcome, but an oft-overlooked issue is the poor quality dorm room desks. For a place that a student is expected …read more
Senior college projects are the culmination of years of theoretical learning finally put into practice. For many students they are their first experience of doing some proper, real world engineering. [Melangeaddict] chose to take on a persistence of vision display for his final project, and learned plenty along the way. …read more
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“It wasn’t necessarily the most legal thing, but something to do that was sort of fun.” Continue reading Teens Hacked Their Teacher’s Computer to Change Grades for Money
For college-aged engineers and designers, finding a problem they’re truly passionate about early on could very well set the trajectory for an entire career. This is precisely the goal of the Cornell Cup, a competition that tasks applicants with solving a real-world problem in a unique and interesting way. From …read more
Continue reading 2019 Cornell Cup Winners Include Autonomous Boat, Flapping UAV, and Leaping Rover
A gang of payment-card scammers has targeted 201 college and university campus stores, trying to steal students’ financial data in a Magecart-style attack, according to new research. The new cybercrime group, labeled Mirrorthief, injected malicious code on payment checkout pages at hundreds of U.S. and Canadian stores, according to TrendMicro research published Friday. By compromising PrismWeb, an e-commerce platform designed for college stores, the attackers could collect payment card details, names, addresses and phone numbers, researchers said. PrismWeb is made by PrismRBS, a subsidiary of the Nebraska Book Company. TendMicro’s report comes as security researchers continue to grapple with an expansion of payment-card thievery along with an apparent surge in demand for stolen financial information. Success by one group inspires imitators in another. The most prominent, Magecart, is a collection of perhaps 12 hacking campaigns that steal payment information by secretly collecting data from online checkout pages. TrendMicro researchers noted that Mirrorthief is […]
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In 1961, FCC Commissioner [Newt Minow] famously described TV as a “vast wasteland.” But TV can do great things; educational programming, news coverage, and great performances do appear, just not all that often. You can draw the same parallels to the Internet. Sure, it’s mostly cat pictures, snarky comments, and posts of what your friends had for dinner. But it can also be a powerful tool, especially for education. Recently, top-name schools and other institutions have posted courses online for everything from Python to Quantum Mechanics to Dutch. The problem is finding these classes and figuring out which ones are …read more
The all-student team Space Enterprise at Berkeley plan to unveil their Eureka-1 rocket later this spring. Continue reading The Race to Launch the First Student-Built Rocket into Space Is On
The FBI’s longterm strategy for hiring proficient cybersecurity professionals involves reaching into high schools, helping foster STEM education and perhaps most importantly, encouraging students to enroll in Scholarship for Service programs that eventually guide them toward Quantico, said Howard Marshall, deputy assistant director of the bureau’s cybersecurity division. “[Cyber workforce recruitment] is a huge challenge for us, maybe one of our biggest,” Marshall said Wednesday at CyberTalks in Washington, D.C. “We have a significant portion of our agents and investigators that are not equipped, what you could probably call not tech-savvy, that are not going to be much help when it comes to the technical side of an investigation.” Marshall said the FBI currently has a nationwide pilot program in which agents are working to encourage the study and development of science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses in high school. The idea is to get students engaged in exercises and other activities that […]
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