This chapter provides basic information about the motivation of this report and the conduct of the study. It presents the committee’s statement of task along with insights gained from the sponsor. The ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of Cary I. Sneider, a member of the science-standards writing team. When STEM education is discussed in the K-12 sphere, it often ...

The National Academy of Engineering will convene a committee to plan and conduct a symposium that will highlight how fundamental engineering research has led to positive societal and economic impacts ...

AT the Second International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering held at Rotterdam in June 1948, a Society was established for promoting international co-operation in the sphere of ...

David Packard (1912-1996), the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company. The foundation formed by him and his wife has provided hundreds of millions of dollars to support science and engineering over ...