What We’re Reading

Infusing Advanced Manufacturing into Undergraduate Engineering Education

Cutting-edge technologies are reshaping manufacturing in the United States and around the world, with applications from medicine to defense. If the United States wants to further build upon these new innovations, the next generation of engineers must be trained to work in advanced manufacturing from the undergraduate level and beyond.

Drone Airspace: A New Global Asset Class

There’s still time to protect competition and innovation in drone services and technology

Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity

The purpose of this solicitation is to broaden participation in innovation ecosystems that advance emerging technologies (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors and microelectronics) by supporting capacity-building efforts at institutions of higher education interested in growing external partnerships.

Gravatics raises $20m for plans to build space station modules north of Seattle

A space venture called Gravatics has emerged from stealth with $20 million in seed funding and a plan to build space station modules at a 42,000-square-foot facility north of Seattle, in Marysville, WA.

The incredible shrinking future of college

The population of college-age Americans is about to crash. It will change higher education forever.

The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture

Practicing meeting mindfulness allows us to free up time for other stuff that matters more. This isn’t to say that all meetings are useless  it’s just that the meetings we do have at Tremendous are meetings for a reason.

Fearing lawsuits, factories rush to replace humans with robots in South Korea

The Serious Disasters Punishment Act was meant to be a triumph for workers’ safety. Instead, it’s spurring companies to erase staff.