AMES, Iowa – To better understand the striking gender divide that still exists today in engineering, it is necessary to look at the history of the field, said Amy Bix, an associate professor of ...

Historian Larry Daniel is right to begin his book with a quote from Earl Hess about how the historians of the American Civil War need to break out of “the comfortable niches imposed by their large ...

Maybe this sounds familiar: You’ve stared idly through an airplane’s window and wondered, How exactly does that jet engine work? Or you’ve tracked a shipment from across the country, refreshing UPS’s ...