Does Engineering Education Breed Terrorists?

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In May 2010, Faisal Shahzad hoped to kill dozens of pedestrians when he parked his Nissan Pathfinder near Times Square, loaded with improvised bombs. Four months earlier, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight carrying 289 passengers by igniting explosives sewn into his underwear. Last year, Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on two military facilities in Tennessee, killing five soldiers.

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Dan Berrett is a senior editor for The Chronicle of Higher Education who writes and edits stories about finance and the business of the sector. He joined The Chronicle in 2011 and has also covered teaching and learning. Follow him on on Bluesky @dberrett.bsky.social, Twitter @danberrett, or write to him at dan.berrett@chronicle.com.