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Bucknell Faculty Get Creative as Remote Learning Begins
Professors go the extra mile to support students and make themselves available as Bucknell transitions to remote learning for the spring 2020 semester.
Through Bucknell’s Externship Program, Students Get Inside Look at Life on the Job
Bucknell’s Center for Career Advancement connects students with employers for externships, one- to two-day job-shadowing experiences that can shape a student's future.
Jennifer Bower Dawson ’03, Mechanical Engineering
As her company deploys some of the first completely driverless vehicles to traverse American roadways, Jennifer Bower Dawson '03 is watching out for the public's safety.
2019 BizPitch Winner Designs Product to Help Visually Impaired ‘Simply See’
Rebecca Rosenberg '20 transformed her struggle with vision problems into an innovative assistive technology
Student-Faculty Research Finds First Evidence of Carbon Monoxide in E-cigarettes
The student-initiated study adds a new dimension to the debate surrounding the safety of the devices.
A Bright Idea: Bucknell Student, Professor Make Homework Safer for Refugee Students
When Shehryar Asif '21 and Professor Amal Kabalan learned that refugee students in Lebanon weren’t able to safely complete their schoolwork after dark, they delivered a simple but innovative solution.
Bucknell Student’s Book Series Lights the Way for Young Women in Engineering
Emily Bayuk '21 wants to help more young girls discover the wonder she finds in electrical engineering.
Bucknell Opens Academic East, a Student-centered Hub for Innovation and Exploration
Academic East, a 78,000-square-foot innovation center for the College of Engineering and Department of Education at Bucknell, opens in August 2019.
Erin Jablonski, Chemical Engineering
As Professor Erin Jablonski, chemical engineering, pursued her education and career in a male-dominated field, she has paid careful attention to factors that could undermine student success in grades K-12.
Inside Innovation: Senior Design Team Engineers App with Johnson & Johnson
Yili Wang ’21, Applied Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science
Yili Wang '21 sees connections between the passions for music and mathematics that she's pursuing at Bucknell.
Bucknell Chemical Engineering Majors Win Big at National Conference
A delegation of 32 Bucknell students headed to Pittsburgh for the American Institute of Chemical Engineering National Student Conference. You might say they swept the competition.
Cool Classes: Manufacturing Processes
Most college mechanical engineering programs teach students to sketch products using computer-aided design software. Not every program asks students to then cast those products in molten metal, roiling at more than 2,000 degrees Celsius, but that's exactly what Bucknell mechanical engineering major Brishti Mandal '20 found herself doing on a Monday afternoon last semester.
Hands-on Experiences Help Electrical & Computer Engineering Majors Find the Art in Engineering
It was on an October afternoon in her junior year when Hayley Reiner '20 first experienced the art in engineering.
Cool Classes: Materials Science
To make great stuff, sometimes you have to break stuff. UNIV 264, a course in materials science taught by Professor Tim Raymond, chemical engineering, takes this maxim to the extreme.