Tufts Engineering vs Tandon vs UW Madison Engineering

Mastadon
Sat, 21 Apr 2018 05:42:53 +0000

Tufts does not believe in “weeding people out”. It believes in “keeping people in”. It has a negative attrition rate based on innovations derived from research in K-12 STEM education (Tufts created the Lego Mindstorms .and runs a worldwide K-12 STEM Education program.)

http://now.tufts.edu/articles/engineering-toyland
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Tufts has two new interdisciplinary Science/Engineering complexes, each with a new maker space and one with a New Venture Lab.
http://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/tufts-university-begins-new-era-innovation-discovery-opening-science-and-engineering
http://now.tufts.edu/articles/space-next-generation-thinking

Here is the network of maker spaces at Tufts (the newest is not shown)
https://maker.tufts.edu/spaces

And Tufts has a descendant of Newton’s apple tree

Also in the spring, in an adjacent courtyard, where drought-tolerant plants grow in tiered gardens and curved stone benches resemble small boats, Tufts will plant an apple tree. Not just any apple tree, but one started with a grafted cutting from the tree from which a historic apple reportedly fell in 1666, prompting Isaac Newton to speculate about the nature of gravity.

“We took cuttings at MIT from the ‘Newton’ apple tree in 2009, and grafted them onto 10 rootstocks back in 2010,” says George Ellmore, associate professor of biology. “We were told not to expect a high survival rate—only about 2 percent—but we beat those odds, with six trees growing stronger by the year in a garden between Barnum and Ballou halls.”