Technology Engineering

Seniors in high school often have to make an important decision, which college major to choose. There are many majors to choose out of and students have to start choosing their major before even stepping foot on college campus. It is however, often a difficult decision because students have many interests and not enough expertise to make a decision.Many college students, in fact, change their majors during their college years; sometimes, students have to stay in college for 5 or 6 years because of the changes. Nowadays, many college including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University enter all of their students into a General Program during the first two years. However, some programs such as Engineering at North Carolina State University essentially force their students to start engineering when they take their first step on campus. So, it is still very important for a high school senior to evaluate his or her potential majors before applying to colleges and universities.The most important factor in choosing a major is interest. It is a horrible idea to spend the next four years of your life studying something you despise then having to work 40 or more hours ... [more..]

Audio and Sound Technology Schools, colleges, and universities provide studies of audio and sound technologies for those interested in this fascinating and growing field. Sound technology is not a new field, but it is changing and growing by leaps and bounds. Career opportunities in the field are broadening as well, with the development of innovations of new technologies.Besides music and voice recordings, digital audio and sound technology is used for special effects in video games, toys, ringtones, music, and new developments entering the market all the time. Sound technology is a passion for some, and sound technology schools teach the art and technology of acoustics to those who want to turn their passion into their profession.Sound technology schools award bachelor degrees in digital audio arts, the AAS, ADM, BSAT, BAM (Music, Music Technology, Musicology) Degrees can be accomplished in a many traditional colleges and universities. Along with liberal arts courses necessary for completion of degrees, students will experience computing and audio technology, using recording equipment and computer software, principles of acoustics, and processing information electronically. Music students may also be introduced to studio composition, sound mixing, scoring for movies, songwriting, conducting, and much more.Students in Audio Technology Schools can choose ... [more..]

Even if you are not scientifically and mathematically inclined, you know there are some underlying fundamentals in our world. Mechanical engineering is one of them.Let's step back in time, for a moment, to Ancient Greece. A man by the name of Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) along with a many by the name of Heron of Alexandria (10-70 AD) are largely responsible for Western mechanics - though they had no way of knowing this at the time. Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer ... in short, he more than left his mark on the story of mechanical engineering. Likewise, Heron of Alexandria was also a mathematician and engineer - and without him, Alexandria would not have been the place that it was.Both Archimedes and Heron of Alexandria made fantastic discoveries that are still studied in various courses throughout the Western world today. Additionally, the medieval Chinese horologist Su Song (1020-1101 AD) also helped to shape the world of mechanics through a unique escapement function that helped his astronomical clock tower to function quite astonishingly. However, it was not until around the beginning of the 19th Century that this discipline was made into the separate field ... [more..]

E-learning is a very broad term. It is used to describe any type of learning environment that is computer enhanced. There are multiple technologies that can be employed in E-learning. It has become one of those types of words that are so general as to have lost some of its meaning. Distance learning is something that has evolved from Elearning. It is used to describe a learning environment that takes place away from the actual traditional classroom and campus.E-learning began at just about the same time that a computer was developed that was practical for personal use. In fact, the concept and practice of distance learning predates the computer area by almost 100 years. In England, in 1840, shorthand classes were being offered by correspondence courses through the mail. The improvements to the postal service made this method of distance learning popular in the early part of the last century. This led to a large number of "through the mail" type of educational programs. The computer only made distance learning easy and better. Television, video recorders, and even radio have all made a contribution to distance learning.E-learning and distance learning are not quite the same thing. The basic thing that ... [more..]