IEEE is now seeking nominations for the 2007 Engineers Week “New Faces of Engineering” campaign, which recognizes young engineers for their outstanding educational and career accomplishments.  An annual event since 2002, the program promotes the importance of technical education, celebrates engineering careers and recognizes significant contributions to the engineering profession and society. Read more

The September special issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine tackles the subject of wireless ad-hoc communication networks.  Papers in this issue cover noninvasive brain-computer interfaces, adaptive cardiovascular imaging, story of echo cancellation, and more. Read more

Increasing public understanding of science and technology is a principal goal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), so it only makes sense that it recognizes the need for scientists who are well versed in communicating complex ideas to a general audience.  Enter the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows program.  [...]

This month, IEEE Spectrum discusses the long-term rise in autism among children today, and investigates theories as to why autism is found twice as often among children of engineers than those of the general population.  One observation suggests that high rates of children with autism are almost coincidently found in hot spots for engineering such [...]

The Environmental Engineering Program supports research and educational activities across the broad field it serves, with the goal of applying engineering principles to understand and reduce adverse effects of solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, inland and coastal waters, and air that result from human activity and that impair the ecological and economic value [...]

The Environmental Technology Program provides support to develop and test new technologies across the range of sub-areas and activities in the field of environmental engineering.  These include new devices and systems for more effective pollutant removal from air and water, as well as new technologies that minimize or avoid the pollutant generation inherent in older [...]

The National Science Foundation’s Networking Technology and Systems program solicits proposals from the networking research and education community, encouraging investigators to make bold assumptions about the future of networking.  The scope of the program covers all properties of information networks including network architecture, protocols, algorithms, and proof of concept implementation of hardware and software.  Research [...]

The program seeks to broaden the participation of girls and women in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education by supporting research, dissemination of research, and extension services in education that will lead to a larger and more diverse domestic science and engineering workforce.  Typical projects will contribute to the knowledge base addressing [...]

Launched at the end of October 2006 as a high-impact, open-access Letters journal, Environmental Research Letters (ERL) will provide a coherent and integrated approach including research articles, perspectives, news and editorials, as well as meeting notices for the environmental science community.  Completely free to read online, ERL will be funded by an article publication charge. [...]

by M. Kanellos ZDNet News, 25 Oct 2006 Researchers at MIT say they can boost mileage in cars by as much as 30 percent, depending on the car, by a carefully planned injection of ethanol in the cylinder.  The engine, which is only about half the size of a conventional gas engine, could be on [...]