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Climate change is one of humanity’s most serious threats. The effects of climate change are already being felt worldwide, from extreme weather events to rising sea levels. Discover how geoengineering is being utilized to help combat it.

This year’s National Engineers Week takes place from February 19-25, 2023. First founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), Engineers Week brings together a formal coalition of over 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies and more than 50 corporations and government agencies.

The best gifts for mechanical engineers are tools that help them activate their engineering spirit and build their own creations. Those tools can be knowledge-based, they can be practical, or they can be plain old fun. We’ve gathered a list of potential mechanical engineering gifts that fit every budget and personality.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which aims to help individuals protect themselves online. It’s also an opportunity to recognize the important work that cybersecurity professionals do to keep us, our businesses, and our nation’s infrastructure safe.

April is Math and Statistics Awareness Month, a time to increase the public’s understanding and appreciation of mathematics. Beginning in 1986 as Math Awareness Week, the occasion has grown with the field itself. Today, math powers practically everything, and holds the key to many of society’s most pressing issues, such as climate change, information security, and counteracting disease.

The 12th annual National Robotics Week (RoboWeek) takes place April 2-10, 2022. Established by Congress in 2010, this tech-focused week is about demonstrating the positive societal impacts of robotic technologies, and inspiring students of all ages to pursue careers related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).

To help raise awareness of the importance of groundwater, the International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC) has designated 2022 as the year of “Making the Invisible Visible: the Year of Groundwater.” Over 2.7 billion people a year experience water scarcity for at least one month a year.

I began my career as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and until recently, I was using my skills in assessing and understanding human behavior to conduct UX research on topics like computer self-efficacy and organizational change.

Engineers might be the only group of people where you can give them a problem—and they can consider it a gift. The engineering mind thrives on hunting for elegant solutions to complex tasks. That doesn’t mean you should give an engineering student a homework assignment for the holidays, but it does mean you can have some fun with the gift you eventually select.

Computer science drives the modern world. Its applications help save lives, amplify marginalized voices, and enrich humanity’s understanding of itself. And the capabilities of computer science are only growing: today, the world’s six billion smartphone owners possess, in their pocket, more powerful computers than those that originally sent men to the moon.