Still, it is encouraging that the American public values the expertise and skills of engineers, as shown by their increasing willingness to elect them to Congress. You must be logged in to post a comment. Abhishek Mahesh Appaji and Dr. Ramya Hariharan offer strong, practical advice for fostering and supporting researchers in […]. A few nights ago, I came across an envelope beneath some old photos.
The handwritten label that read "4th-grade disappointment" made me more than a little curious, so I opened it up. Inside, I found a handful of participation ribbons from field day. A favorite national pastime is to complain about Congress. But how many of those complaints — and the rather sparser retorts to them — are informed by first-hand knowledge?
The House has approved nine of the twelve annual […]. Daniel Davies is determined to keep accessibility for disabled passengers front and center as the autonomous vehicle AV industry races forward.
His oldest brother John, who lives with severe intellectual disability and several physical […]. This is why we need more scientists and engineers to leave their labs and universities and run for public office, including U. Frankly, it is unrealistic to expect a group of lawyers, businessmen and women, and career politicians to create sound policy on matters they have no understanding of.
It is also ineffective for scientists and engineers to remain confined on the sidelines, hoping for the best and critiquing poorly conceived policy. With new technologies constantly on the horizon, science and engineering will only become more embedded into the lives of many Americans and thus an increasingly more complex policy issue. As a result of this trend, it would appear that the future of science in politics only seems to be growing, meaning the time is now for more scientists and engineers to get involved in the political process.
Science is going to be at the forefront of many issues that this Congress, and all those that follow, will face. In the future, it is imperative that we have more Congressmen and women that understand these complex scientific issues and are able to inform policies that will affect the public at large, else, our future will be marked with one bad law after the next.
In addition to their ridiculous puns, hilarious reproductions of car noises, and contagious laughter, what makes the show great is their ability to explain the mechanics of cars in a way that non-mechanics can understand.
This vitally important and hard-to-learn skill is not emphasized at academic institutions. Too few researchers are encouraged to present their work clearly and without jargon to a non-technical audience. If more scientists are to be elected to government, then they will have to be trained to communicate what can sometimes be dry or counterintuitive facts in a way that is, as Einstein put it, as simple as possible, but not simpler. Equally important were their affable, magnetic personalities.
Scientists, on the other hand, are often tone-deaf to their social environment, which can lead to a perceived aloofness when debating culturally sensitive issues. The presentations and reports of incredibly bright students here at MIT often read as long lists of bullet points.
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