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THE VISUALIZATION OF TRANSFORMATIVE TECH

September 21, 2017December 27, 2017 Next Gen Editor

Time for another thought experiment. Or, rather, a puzzle without a good answer yet. We’re getting pretty good at building extremely powerful telescopes. The Kepler planet finder orbiting telescope may have gone functionally offline, but Hubble keeps plugging along, and the James Webb infrared telescope is on the calendar. And when we look out in […]

DETERMINING THE VALUE OF A TWO-YEAR DEGREE IN ENGINEERING

November 5, 2016December 27, 2017 Next Gen Editor

A recent national report co-authored by Edmonds Community College’s Mel Cossette asserts that U.S. innovation will require the production and retention of workers skilled in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). “The purpose of this report was to shed light on the relatively underappreciated roles and contributions of engineering technicians and technologists,” said Mel Cossette, […]