The 2009 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded today to two groups for the courseware SIMSE submitted by Emily Navarro and colleagues, and CATME/Team-Maker submitted by Matthew Ohland and colleagues.

The award was presented at the Premier Award Ceremony at the Frontiers in Education Conference, held this year in in San […]

Today in History - October 18, 1962 - Watson, Crick, and Wilkins receive Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA as a double helix. They first proposed their model for the structure of DNA in 1953. As this model was composed of two right-handed, antiparallel, polynucleotide chains coiled around a common axis it is sometimes referred […]

Today in History - October 4, 1957 - Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the Earth’s first artificial satellite, into space at the peak of the Cold War.
View our Sputnik resources, as well as related resources in Aerospace Engineering. Students can learn about careers in Aerospace Engineering, learn about aircraft dynamics, or simulate gas turbines. Faculty can […]

Today in History - September 27, 2003 - The first European mission to the moon was launched aboard an Ariane-5 rocket carrying the SMART-1 exploration probe, along with two commercial satellites. It took 15 months to reach lunar orbit, covered over 60 million miles with only 13 gallons of fuel. After being captured by […]

Today in History - September 7, 1998 - Google is founded. Larry Page and Sergey Brin met as students at  Stanford and collaborated on a search engine called BackRub. They decided that the BackRub name doesn’t quite have the buzz needed and came up with  Google - a play on the word “googol,” a […]