E is for Engineering

Local universities and colleges are getting ready for school to start up again. Things are eerily quiet now. The above photo features McNair Hall, the School of Engineering building on NCA&T's campus. McNair Hall, located on East Market Street, is named for physicist and NASA astronaut, Ronald McNair. McNair accomplished so much in his short life, including earning a Ph.D. He died at the young age of 35 when the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated in 1986. 

NCA&T is one of North Carolina's big engineering schools and we are proud to boast that it is right here in Greensboro. According to NCA&T's website, their engineering degree programs are distributed across six departments: chemical biological and bio engineering; civil, architectural and environmental engineering; computer science; electrical and computer engineering; industrial and systems engineering; mechanical engineering and the interdisciplinary computational science and engineering program. They are the home of the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials.* The 21st century is a time of great advances in science and engineering. It is so important to encourage our children to pursue engineering. Engineering majors work extremely hard; however, (to quote TED) at the end of the day, they are developing ideas worth sharing.....

Today is ABC Wednesday and for our Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics Round (STEAM link here), E is for Engineering! In about another week, McNair Hall will be teeming with brilliant people conducting brilliant engineering research.

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Comments

[Dina]

I wish the students lots of luck.
Just today I was sad to read that "More than 40% of women with engineering degrees either never enter or leave the professsion, according to research by the National Science Foundation. Those who leave often cite hostile workplaces and lack of opportunity as their reasons."

[Roger Green]

Very educational! And a little sad...

ROG, ABCW

[Lowell]

It's beautiful building and very appropriately named!

[Oakland Daily Photo]

Why is it that engineering buildings are always so graceless? Same thing at Cal Berkeley. Maybe all the good design is inside where the hard work is done.

[William Kendall]

The right person to name it after. We have an engineering building- or to be more precise, several buildings linked together- on this campus that does have the general institutional look of engineering buildings.

[Leslie]

I have a former student studying engineering at the University of British Columbia. A great career...

Leslie
abcw team

[Janis & David]

Indeed, the outside looks very austere. The inside of the building has artwork. The artist in me would like to see a colorful mosaic or mural on that curved wall.