By Marilynn Larkin

What do point-of-care diagnostics, organs-on-chips and pacemakers have in common? They’re all products of interdisciplinary collaborations, and team members usually include physicians, who provide input on what’s needed in the clinic, and engineers, who help design and develop the devices. Recognizing the power of such collaborations, the IEEE launched the Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine a few years back “to support the movement of biotechnological innovations from idea to clinical trials and commercialization.”

The all-new 2016 Engineering Academic Challenge - developed by students for students is launching in October.  We invite you to register for our informational webinar on September 21, 2016  at 10:00 a.m. EDT to learn the key benefits in playing the Engineering Academic Challenge at your university.

The Engineering Academic Challenge is an immersive, 5-week interactive problem-set competition, featuring weekly thematic engineering challenges built around five transdisciplinary themes inspired by the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges.

The challenge question sets were developed

In 2017 the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) will celebrate its 50^th anniversary as a division and the 75^th anniversary of the first organized engineering librarians group in the American Society for Engineering Education. In celebration of the ELD’s double anniversary year, the Anniversary Planning Task Force* is publishing a monthly e-mail digest called, "Milestones in Engineering Information" to highlight important topics in the history of engineering libraries and information.

By Marilynn Larkin

The Hollywood movie, “The Martian,” opens with a dust storm. How long do such dust storms usually last?

As an R&D engineer with Autodesk, you are developing a CAD system to algorithmically optimize mechanical performance of a 3D-printed metal-lattice structure? Which machine learning technique best avoids the problem of deception?

These are just two examples of the real-world questions thousands of engineering students from hundreds of institutions around the world will face in the upcoming Knovel/Engineering Village

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