Watch as 650 Engineers from Dyson rev up to design, build and race toy vehicles. The catch: they can only use spare parts from vacuum cleaners!  Check it out!

After 8 months of trial and error, Dutch engineer Jarno Smeets takes to the skies using self-made wings, video game controllers and an Android phone. Some skeptics are doubting the authenticity of the video, but it looks real enough to us: Watch this video on YouTube. Click here for more info!

I’ve discussed in previous posts, many science-minded students end up choosing non-STEM related careers.  Policy-makers are desperately trying to reverse this trend, but can you, as an individual  (and engineer) do anything to help? To further explore the question, I recently sat down with John Hunter, a fellow engineering blogger and science lover. What are the primary the issues holding students back in the classroom? And can you, as parent…

New York’s Mayor Bloomberg is raking in bids from top universities to build a new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. If successful, the new campus will create 30,000 jobs, prompt 6 mill. in economic activity and most importantly, spur the kind innovation and ingenuity that engineers are best known for. “During the 1980s and ’90s, Silicon Valley — not New York City — became the world’s capital of technology…