Came across the item below in my mailbox this morning. The University of Texas El Paso is doing some exciting things in engineering education. UTEP is a place to be watching.

As you may know, the World Batch Forum has been struggling mightily over the last couple of years, which is too bad, because the group has always been a good source of engineering information. So I was glad to find this email from WBF Chairman Bill Wray in my mailbox first thing this morning. 

TODAY: President Obama honors UTEP engineering professor Ben Flores, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso, will receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Technology, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (STEM) during a reception at the White House today.

President Barack Obama will honor educators from across the country at his second "Educate to Innovate" Campaign event for excellence in STEM education.

A while back (in 2006) I wrote an editorial titled "Would you want your kid to do this job?" If you want to re-read it, or read it now for the first time, here's the URL:

http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2006/041.html

Recently, a reader named Bob Kluck sent me a comment on it: