Spring 2010
Spectra Spring 2010
Dear friends: I am very pleased to share with you our first edition of SPECTRA for 2010. As you can see from ...High School Students Gain ACCESS to College Engineering
Waiting lists are nothing new in higher education, but for a special program in CECS, it’s schools, not students, that are queued ...CECS Students Shine in Solar Project
Last year, when Boeing Corporation was looking for some help designing a new piece of hardware to help solar panels track the ...A Laboratory for the Future
In 1967, a popular new ride called Adventure Thru Inner Space opened in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. The ride, which simulated the experience of ...CECS Delivers a One-Two Punch at WESTEC
Sometimes it isn’t necessity that’s the mother of invention, but a good old-fashioned competition. At least that was the case with the ...Teaching, Mentoring Pay off for CECS Professor and His Students
Amine Ghanem, assistant professor of construction management, isn’t likely to forget 2010 anytime soon. First, one of the students he coached for ...Software-Defined Radio Sets the Stage for the Future
When the 9/11 Commission released its final report in August 2004, one of the failures it cited was the inability of first ...College News
The March 2010 copy of Prism, the journal of the American Society of Engineering Education, named CECS the fastest-growing engineering school in the ...Department News
Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics At the American Society of Civil Engineering’s 2010 regional conference, which took place during spring break at ...Alumni Spotlight
Milad Girgis: Manufacturing Success From the time he was in high school, Milad Girgis (’97, Mechanical Engineering; MS ’01, Engineering Management) knew ...