The students huddled around their tables, scribbling and erasing their notes, nodding and shaking their heads and rearranging the blocks in front of them. “There has to be a hole in the middle.” “We ...

Princeton Professor Andrew Houck’s calculus students had just finished grappling with a set of equations on the forces of tension and gravity when he pulled a large pendulum back to his shoulder and ...

SLU-Madrid mathematics courses meet the needs of students with a wide variety of interests. The department offers several introductory courses to satisfy the core curriculum requirements, as well as ...

Trey Smith plans to launch the Philadelphia Engineering/Math Challenge in November and already has secured support from Drexel and the Philadelphia Math + Science Coalition. He’ll use the money for ...

Even though our teenage children may not show it the proper appreciation (yet), math is often referred to as the “universal language.” And it is, even in EDA. Whenever I’m asked what the heck I do in ...

The state of education in science, technology, engineering and math is the theme of this year's Scientia Conference at Rice University Feb. 11-12. The conference, titled “Research and Innovation in ...

Scientists in a lab. The proportion of bachelor’s degrees in science awarded to Black graduates remained flat at about 9 percent from 2001 to 2016; in engineering, it declined from 5 percent to 4 ...

Re: “The left’s attack on math and objective standards” (Nov. 14): As someone who has retired from a long and productive engineering career, I am saddened that columnist Susan Shelley does not ...