A unique national competition asked college engineering students to help build America’s cities 100 years from now
Three of the nation’s leading engineering colleges are celebrating their winning entries in IBM and The History Channel® nationwide competition called The City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge. IBM and The History Channel®, in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), challenged engineering students to peer into the future and propose the innovative engineering solutions that will sustain our great cities far in the 22nd century. It marked the second phase of a competition that earlier asked the nation’s architects to design “The City of The Future,” inspired by past civilizations revealed in The History Channel series, Engineering an Empire.
The winner in the New York metro area was New Jersey’s Science & Technology University whose team included Latha Singanamalli, Kiratbir Khurana, Arwa Gheith, and team captain Gian Francisco. In Los Angeles, California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo fielded a winning team with team captain Derek Benedict, Karen Nishimoto, Anthony Henderson, and Christopher Pratt. In the Chicago region, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had Team Captain Peter Pascua, Sean Poust, Cam Talishi, and Chistiana Barnas submit the winning effort.
Presentations were evaluated based on innovation, presentation, viability, application of engineering principals, and incorporation of the City of the Future design concept. Winning teams were named “IBM Engineers of the Future” and received $5000 from IBM. IBM also donated ThinkPads® to the winning teams’ schools.
New Jersey Science & Technology University students focused on how best to provide and distribute new forms of energy to power New York, presenting their project to a panel of engineering and design experts. Students from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created an engineering infrastructure for Chicago’s water management while the team from the California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo offered engineering solutions to transportation woes in the Los Angeles metro region.
Jurors who donated their expertise
Among the jurors who reviewed the students’ submissions in New York were Jim Wynne, Global Coordinator and Engineers Week Program Manager, IBM, and 2002 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, Adam Yarinsky, Principal, Architecture Research Office, Andrew Herrmann, Managing Partner, Hardesty & Hanover, LLP, and Director and Vice Chair, ASCE Metropolitan Section, Augustine Digiacomo, Managing Principal, Jaros, Baum & Bolles, Lawrence Chiarelli, Professor, Polytechnic University, President, ASCE Metropolitan Section, Mike Lorczak, Associate Vice President, DMJM HARRIS, Vice President/Chair, ASCE Scholarship Committee, Co-Chair, ASCE Air Transport Group.
In Chicago the jurors included, John Tolva, Senior Program Manager, IBM Cultural Strategy and Programs, Bill Kosik, Managing Principal, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Martin Felsen, Co-Principal, UrbanLab, Sarah Dunn, Co-Principal, UrbanLab, Joe Johnson, Principal Project Manager, MWH Americas, President, Illinois Section ASCE, Dennis Martenson, Principal, CDM, 2005-2006 President, ASCE.
In Los Angeles jurors were Peter Gross, Chief Executive and CTO, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Eric Owen Moss, Principal, Eric Owen Moss Architects, John Morris, Principal, Morris Water Resources Consultants, President, ASCE, Los Angeles Section, Craig Taylor, Managing Partner, Baseline Mgmt, Inc., Research Associate Professor, USC, Chair, ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management, and Harvey Gobas, Vice President, Water Resources Psomas.
Speaking for his fellow jurors across the country, Craig Taylor, a Managing Partner of Baseline Management, Los Angeles, and Research Associate Professor at USC observed, “It was heartwarming to see students apply such energy and intelligence to address formidable challenges that face us all and future generations.”
Student insight. Future vision.
"IBM understands that for America to remain competitive in the global economy, the wonders of science and engineering must be presented as alluring, viable career paths with strong support by the private sector," said Stanley Litow, president of the IBM Foundation and vice president of IBM Corporate Community Relations. "Challenges like the City of the Future allow students to further develop their expertise by giving them practical experience in applying and presenting innovative engineering solutions to issues they may one day face."
As the sponsor, IBM is dedicated to promoting the significant role that engineering and innovation will play in the development of viable and sustainable Cities of the Future. IBM has a long-standing commitment to programs like this one that encourage young people to explore careers in engineering. In addition, IBM has formed partnerships with school districts throughout the U.S. and in countries throughout the world to develop technology solutions designed to help raise student achievement.
“History continues to provide us with a roadmap filled with important lessons,” observed Judy Klein Frimer, Director of Consumer Promotion & Strategic Alliances, The History Channel. “Engineering an Empire showcases those lessons and provides today’s architects and engineers with significant guidance on how to take our cities into the future. The response from these students, and all of the teams that competed, demonstrated the creative force among our young people that will propel us to the future.”
The series that sparked this national effort, the critically acclaimed Engineering an Empire, was a one-hour weekly program on The History Channel® that looked at the key leaders of each ancient empire and explores the mark each left on his or her society – by way of roads, super-fortresses, dams, temples and other structures. The series is hosted by actor and art historian Peter Weller, who was featured prominently in the Emmy winning special on The History Channel, Rome: Engineering an Empire.
The History Channel® is one of the leading cable television networks featuring compelling original, non-fiction specials and series that bring history to life in a powerful and entertaining manner across multiple platforms. The network provides an inviting place where people experience history in new and exciting ways enabling them to connect their lives today to the great lives and events of the past that provide a blueprint for the future. The History Channel has earned four Peabody Awards, three Primetime Emmy® Awards, 10 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards and received the prestigious Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network's Save Our History® campaign dedicated to historic preservation and history education. The History Channel reaches more than 91 million Nielsen subscribers. The website is located at www.History.com.
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with more than 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com
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Three of the nation’s leading engineering colleges are celebrating their winning entries in IBM and The History Channel® nationwide competition called The City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge. IBM and The History Channel®, in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), challenged engineering students to peer into the future and propose the innovative engineering solutions that will sustain our great cities far in the 22nd century. It marked the second phase of a competition that earlier asked the nation’s architects to design “The City of The Future,” inspired by past civilizations revealed in The History Channel series, Engineering an Empire.
The winner in the New York metro area was New Jersey’s Science & Technology University whose team included Latha Singanamalli, Kiratbir Khurana, Arwa Gheith, and team captain Gian Francisco. In Los Angeles, California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo fielded a winning team with team captain Derek Benedict, Karen Nishimoto, Anthony Henderson, and Christopher Pratt. In the Chicago region, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had Team Captain Peter Pascua, Sean Poust, Cam Talishi, and Chistiana Barnas submit the winning effort.
Presentations were evaluated based on innovation, presentation, viability, application of engineering principals, and incorporation of the City of the Future design concept. Winning teams were named “IBM Engineers of the Future” and received $5000 from IBM. IBM also donated ThinkPads® to the winning teams’ schools.
New Jersey Science & Technology University students focused on how best to provide and distribute new forms of energy to power New York, presenting their project to a panel of engineering and design experts. Students from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created an engineering infrastructure for Chicago’s water management while the team from the California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo offered engineering solutions to transportation woes in the Los Angeles metro region.
Jurors who donated their expertise
Among the jurors who reviewed the students’ submissions in New York were Jim Wynne, Global Coordinator and Engineers Week Program Manager, IBM, and 2002 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, Adam Yarinsky, Principal, Architecture Research Office, Andrew Herrmann, Managing Partner, Hardesty & Hanover, LLP, and Director and Vice Chair, ASCE Metropolitan Section, Augustine Digiacomo, Managing Principal, Jaros, Baum & Bolles, Lawrence Chiarelli, Professor, Polytechnic University, President, ASCE Metropolitan Section, Mike Lorczak, Associate Vice President, DMJM HARRIS, Vice President/Chair, ASCE Scholarship Committee, Co-Chair, ASCE Air Transport Group.
In Chicago the jurors included, John Tolva, Senior Program Manager, IBM Cultural Strategy and Programs, Bill Kosik, Managing Principal, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Martin Felsen, Co-Principal, UrbanLab, Sarah Dunn, Co-Principal, UrbanLab, Joe Johnson, Principal Project Manager, MWH Americas, President, Illinois Section ASCE, Dennis Martenson, Principal, CDM, 2005-2006 President, ASCE.
In Los Angeles jurors were Peter Gross, Chief Executive and CTO, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Eric Owen Moss, Principal, Eric Owen Moss Architects, John Morris, Principal, Morris Water Resources Consultants, President, ASCE, Los Angeles Section, Craig Taylor, Managing Partner, Baseline Mgmt, Inc., Research Associate Professor, USC, Chair, ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management, and Harvey Gobas, Vice President, Water Resources Psomas.
Speaking for his fellow jurors across the country, Craig Taylor, a Managing Partner of Baseline Management, Los Angeles, and Research Associate Professor at USC observed, “It was heartwarming to see students apply such energy and intelligence to address formidable challenges that face us all and future generations.”
Student insight. Future vision.
"IBM understands that for America to remain competitive in the global economy, the wonders of science and engineering must be presented as alluring, viable career paths with strong support by the private sector," said Stanley Litow, president of the IBM Foundation and vice president of IBM Corporate Community Relations. "Challenges like the City of the Future allow students to further develop their expertise by giving them practical experience in applying and presenting innovative engineering solutions to issues they may one day face."
As the sponsor, IBM is dedicated to promoting the significant role that engineering and innovation will play in the development of viable and sustainable Cities of the Future. IBM has a long-standing commitment to programs like this one that encourage young people to explore careers in engineering. In addition, IBM has formed partnerships with school districts throughout the U.S. and in countries throughout the world to develop technology solutions designed to help raise student achievement.
“History continues to provide us with a roadmap filled with important lessons,” observed Judy Klein Frimer, Director of Consumer Promotion & Strategic Alliances, The History Channel. “Engineering an Empire showcases those lessons and provides today’s architects and engineers with significant guidance on how to take our cities into the future. The response from these students, and all of the teams that competed, demonstrated the creative force among our young people that will propel us to the future.”
The series that sparked this national effort, the critically acclaimed Engineering an Empire, was a one-hour weekly program on The History Channel® that looked at the key leaders of each ancient empire and explores the mark each left on his or her society – by way of roads, super-fortresses, dams, temples and other structures. The series is hosted by actor and art historian Peter Weller, who was featured prominently in the Emmy winning special on The History Channel, Rome: Engineering an Empire.
The History Channel® is one of the leading cable television networks featuring compelling original, non-fiction specials and series that bring history to life in a powerful and entertaining manner across multiple platforms. The network provides an inviting place where people experience history in new and exciting ways enabling them to connect their lives today to the great lives and events of the past that provide a blueprint for the future. The History Channel has earned four Peabody Awards, three Primetime Emmy® Awards, 10 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards and received the prestigious Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network's Save Our History® campaign dedicated to historic preservation and history education. The History Channel reaches more than 91 million Nielsen subscribers. The website is located at www.History.com.
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with more than 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com
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They don't represent rankings. But Recommended programs by graduateshotline.
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Best Universities...IF u Join Here ur Life is Settled....
Engineering Colleges for MSRanking
| S.No | University/College |
| 1 | Massachusetts Inst of Technology |
| 2 | Stanford University |
| 3 | University of California-Berkeley |
| 4 | California Institute Technology |
| 5 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 6 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 7 | University of Michigan |
| 8 | Cornell University |
| 9 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 10 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 11 | Purdue University |
| 12 | University of California- San Diego |
| 13 | University of California- Los Angeles |
| 14 | Texas A&M University |
| 15 | Princeton University |
| 16 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 17 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 18 | University of Maryland College Park |
| 19 | Harvard University |
| 20 | University of California-Santa Barbara |
| 21 | University of Southern California |
| 22 | University of Minnesota |
| 23 | Northwestern University |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 25 | Virginia Polytech Inst & State University |
| 26 | Ohio State University |
| 27 | University of Virginia |
| 28 | Columbia University (FU) |
| 29 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 30 | Duke University |
| 31 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst |
| 32 | North Carolina State University |
| 33 | Rice University |
| 34 | University of Washington |
| 35 | University of Florida |
| 36 | University of California-Davis |
| 37 | Washington University -St. Louis |
| 38 | Yale University |
| 39 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| 40 | Michigan State University |
| 41 | Iowa State University |
| 42 | University of Arizona |
| 43 | University of California-Irvine |
| 44 | University of Colorado-Boulder |
| 45 | Case Western Reserve University |
| 46 | Rutgers State University-New Brunswick |
| 47 | University of Notre Dame |
| 48 | Lehigh university |
| 49 | Northeastern University |
| 50 | University of Rochester |
| 51 | University of Delaware |
| 52 | University of Iowa |
| 53 | Brown University |
| 54 | Arizona State University |
| 55 | Drexel University |
These ranking has been compiled by graduateshotline using various resources on internet,comments by current students, NRC rankings etc. Importance has been given to funding, placements, research.
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A myth is a story told by other people about something.The popularity of online degree programs continues to grow, but some people still hesitate to enroll. Don't let one of these myths about online education stop you from getting a degree, because that might be the perfect match for your future happiness and success.
MYTH 1 ~ Online college is easy and anybody can earn a degree online
Many people look at online learning as a game, and they think that is eay.In fact it's not that easy.Since much of the work with online courses is completed independently, students need to be disciplined.You have to plan your time wisely and stay motivated if you want to accomplish something.Online courses may give you more flexibility than traditional classes, but they require just as much work.
MYTH 2 ~ Employers don't take online degrees seriously.
I want to ask you a question first.If you think that online degrees are not something serios why Harvard, Stanford and other prestigious schools have online learning programs ? Just to be in fashion ? I don't think so.More and more people earn a degree online.A 2005 survey shows that 85 percent of employers find online degrees to be more acceptable than they were five years before. Earning an online degree can also show employers that you are motivated and disciplined to work.As more and more universities offer online degree programs, more employers will recognize and embrace someone who got their degree online.And let's don't forget that we live in a world where the internet is bigger and bigger everyday.
MYTH 3 ~ Online learning students do less work than traditional students
If they have more free time that doesn't mean that they do less work than traditional students.The secret is that they have flexibility and can do their work whenever they want.Consider the interruptions in a traditional school day: breaks, transition periods, busy work, waiting for other students to catch up, teachers trying to quiet down the class. If there were some way to take out those interruptions and just let students focus on their work, they'd probably finish in about the same time it takes online learners to complete their assignments.But let's dont forget that online courses are more t ime-consuming, because you have to spend time trying to understand the course.
MYTH 4 ~ Teachers give students less attention online.
Because is an online learning environment students have forums and groups where they could ask questions.In a traditional learning environment students can ask questions only when they are in class, so there is a limited amount of time.Online you can ask as many questions you want, and receive answers anytime without beeing limited by the amount of time.In fact, online learning will likely demand more instructional time and commitment than do conventional colleges. Courses designed for delivery online require considerable instructor involvement to simulate the interactivity of a classroom. Teachers devote time to e-mails, monitoring of discussion groups and other contact with students.Students usually get personalized feedback from their professors. Like any educational environment, students must make an effort to work closely with their professors.
MYTH 5 ~ You must be a computer expert to take online courses
This myth can make a lot of people to don't even try to take an online course.In fact you must have a basic understanding of how to work a computer to get started with online courses, you don't need to be a tech prodigy to succeed.Anybody who can do e-mail can do online courses. It's not too difficult to figure out.If you already surf the internet you have what you need for an online course.
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MYTH 1 ~ Online college is easy and anybody can earn a degree online
Many people look at online learning as a game, and they think that is eay.In fact it's not that easy.Since much of the work with online courses is completed independently, students need to be disciplined.You have to plan your time wisely and stay motivated if you want to accomplish something.Online courses may give you more flexibility than traditional classes, but they require just as much work.
MYTH 2 ~ Employers don't take online degrees seriously.
I want to ask you a question first.If you think that online degrees are not something serios why Harvard, Stanford and other prestigious schools have online learning programs ? Just to be in fashion ? I don't think so.More and more people earn a degree online.A 2005 survey shows that 85 percent of employers find online degrees to be more acceptable than they were five years before. Earning an online degree can also show employers that you are motivated and disciplined to work.As more and more universities offer online degree programs, more employers will recognize and embrace someone who got their degree online.And let's don't forget that we live in a world where the internet is bigger and bigger everyday.
MYTH 3 ~ Online learning students do less work than traditional students
If they have more free time that doesn't mean that they do less work than traditional students.The secret is that they have flexibility and can do their work whenever they want.Consider the interruptions in a traditional school day: breaks, transition periods, busy work, waiting for other students to catch up, teachers trying to quiet down the class. If there were some way to take out those interruptions and just let students focus on their work, they'd probably finish in about the same time it takes online learners to complete their assignments.But let's dont forget that online courses are more t ime-consuming, because you have to spend time trying to understand the course.
MYTH 4 ~ Teachers give students less attention online.
Because is an online learning environment students have forums and groups where they could ask questions.In a traditional learning environment students can ask questions only when they are in class, so there is a limited amount of time.Online you can ask as many questions you want, and receive answers anytime without beeing limited by the amount of time.In fact, online learning will likely demand more instructional time and commitment than do conventional colleges. Courses designed for delivery online require considerable instructor involvement to simulate the interactivity of a classroom. Teachers devote time to e-mails, monitoring of discussion groups and other contact with students.Students usually get personalized feedback from their professors. Like any educational environment, students must make an effort to work closely with their professors.
MYTH 5 ~ You must be a computer expert to take online courses
This myth can make a lot of people to don't even try to take an online course.In fact you must have a basic understanding of how to work a computer to get started with online courses, you don't need to be a tech prodigy to succeed.Anybody who can do e-mail can do online courses. It's not too difficult to figure out.If you already surf the internet you have what you need for an online course.
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