pre-engineeringhigh school engineeringengineering majorEngineering needs in the workforce continue to rise. Filling these needs requires recruiting future engineers to colleges and universities. However, this is not an easy task. One area that has been explored in the attempt to reach students for ...
For the last decade, UWM has hosted a summer program for female high school students to tackle real-world engineering projects through hands-on learning. The EnQuest program — its name a derivation of “engineering quest” — offers two sessions each summer. Since its inception, hundreds of st...
The development of pre-engineering programs at the secondary school level will likely receive increased attention, in part due to the desire to better prepare prospective engineering students for the college experience. In this paper, the authors report their experiences with one such program. In 199...
The course was designed with collaboration from the colleges of engineering and education to increase the interest of high school students in careers in engineering. The course, Science and Technology for High School Teachers, was taught for the first time in the fall of '98. It was designed ...
The University of Kentucky Engineering Summer Program is an immersive, one-week,residential program incorporating engineering and entrepreneurship curricula for Kentucky's top, rising high school seniors. The program's main objectives include: apprising students of the role of innovation in a global econ...
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The purpose of this study was to explore the engineering problem finding ability of high school students at three high schools in Minnesota. Students at each of the three schools had differing backgrounds including pre-engineering coursework, traditional technology education coursework and advanced science...
This paper introduces a model that has been successful for introducing engineering concepts and activities into middle and high school courses. Science, mathematics, and technology teachers participating in the Pre-College Engineering for Teachers (PCET) professional development project attended a two-week...
continues to grow, however. "High school is the most sensitive period for kids deciding on careers," says Orsak. "It was clear we needed to be in with kids then and get in their thought space. What we wanted to do first was show them that engineering is not just something done in ...
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