Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory.For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities,outcasts, unfeminine (o
Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions lie serious questions. InInventing Ourselves Out of
Marcus (history, Mississippi State U.) and Bix (history, Iowa State U.) employ case studies and vignettes to chronologically illustrate the evolution of US federal science and technology policies from
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world.Science as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s sec
The American Westwhere such landmarks as the Golden Gate Bridge rival wild landscapes in popularity and iconic significancehas been viewed as a frontier of technological innovation.Where Minds and Mat
