After all, is that graduate student teaching engineering at Princeton really ten times better at imparting engineering?

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After a few years of teaching engineering, he joined Duke Power in 1976 as a design engineer, rising steadily to president by 1994.

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After a few years teaching engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he joined Duke Power in 1976 as a design engineer, rising steadily to president by 1994.

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That should get around the oddity of trying to rank, say, a small mainly postgraduate outfit concentrating on economics against a big university that does brilliantly at teaching engineering to undergraduates.

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Unlike some of his fellow astronauts (two of whom became senators), he chose a comparatively quiet retirement, teaching aeronautical engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

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Thinking of engineers here, and the clamoring for more engineering degrees, anyone teaching the discipline would as a rule be imparting knowledge of no practical use.

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Dr Hilary Leevers, of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, said science teachers would be teaching evolution not creationism and so should not need a book to tell them how to "delicately handle controversy between a scientific theory and a belief".

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There will also be new teaching and research facilities for the university's engineering, business and economics, maths, and computer science departments as well as student residential accommodation.

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Mike Lynch's main concern, however, was about the teaching of STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and maths - in secondary schools where he felt we were falling behind.

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