- From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners – Los Angeles Times
- the games have introduced millions of players to the joys and frustrations of zoning, street grids and infrastructure funding — and influenced a generation of people who plan cities for a living….
- Remarkable Engineers Who Happened to be Women | LinkEngineering
- Women’s History Month arrives, I find many stories about women who’ve made historical contributions to civilization. In recent years, with the added emphasis on STEM, there have been many more…
- ARVRinEDU | Jaime Donally | Professional Development
- #31DaysofARVRinEDU event! Each day in March will include an augmented (AR) or virtual reality (VR) resources to bring into the classroom. A few years ago, I ran across a resource with a huge librar…
- Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup system will be fixed by summer
- It’s back to the drawing board for engineers at the ambitious Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit that in October launched a plastic cleanup system meant to rid the world’s oceans of plastic…
- Engineer Students Build Cars for Disabled Children
- CMU teamed up with pediatric therapists from Family Health West to provide them the ability to move around independently with modified, ride-on electric toy cars through the Go Baby Go Program.The…
- Engineering Solves the Puzzle – All Together
- engineers who investigate and reconstruct vehicle accidents by getting as much information as possible to make a scientific analysis of the data and formulating it into a report that will be used i…
- How ESA Astronauts Use AR and VR to Train for Space > ENGINEERING.com
- NASA has a dedicated space at their Johnson Space Center in Houston called the Virtual Reality Laboratory, which was built in 1992. If you’re curious, you can actually download the flight softwar…
- Tracking firefighters in burning buildings: Researchers create fireproof, self powered sensor — ScienceDaily
- Researchers have created a motion-powered, fireproof sensor that can track the movements of firefighters, steelworkers, miners and others who work in high-risk environments where they cannot always…
- Rokit Smart – Robolink
- Rokit Smart, the original programmable robot kit! Rokit Smart is perfect for those who want to start learning code.Build 11 different robots from a single kit. Rubber band shooters, line-trackers,…
- Zumi by Robolink Help Kids Learn about AI and Automated Cars
- Zumi! It’s an automated car which helps you learn about AI (artificial intelligence) and vehicle automation, just the type of skills our kids will need and use in their future.Robolink, refers…
- mBot – Open-source Arduino Robot Building Platform|Makeblock Learning Resource
- mBot is a low cost, easy-to-run robot kit for kids to get hands-on experience about graphical programming, electronics, robotics. It is an all-in-one solution for robotics learning and designed for…
- 99% Invisible
- 99 Percent Invisible“This podcast reminds me that pretty much everything in the world has been designed, and that there are so many opportunities to improve things. I also love to hear the backst…
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