{"id":67601,"date":"2006-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-initiative-helps-middle-high-schools-prepare-students-for-engineering-careers\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T00:00:00","slug":"uri-initiative-helps-middle-high-schools-prepare-students-for-engineering-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/11\/uri-initiative-helps-middle-high-schools-prepare-students-for-engineering-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 initiative helps middle, high schools prepare students for engineering careers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — November 27, 2006 — Few middle and high school students in Rhode Island learn about engineering or how their math and science coursework can be used in engineering careers. But a new initiative led by the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering will soon change that.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe College launched \u201cMaking a Case for Engineering: Bringing Excitement to Mathematics and Science\u201d at a meeting in October with an overflow crowd of math and science teachers who were eager to learn how they could introduce engineering concepts and activities into their classrooms.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe meeting was a tremendous success and we had an overwhelmingly positive response from the teachers,\u201d said Bahram Nassersharif, dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering. \u201cThey provided us with a great deal of feedback on how we can help them infuse engineering content and skills into their curriculum, and they offered wonderful ideas for partnerships.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSixty-five teachers from more than 30 middle and high schools in Rhode Island participated in the October meeting during which they learned about various engineering disciplines, brainstormed about classroom lessons and activities, and shared successful teaching strategies. Many more teachers have signed up for a follow-up meeting next spring. Teachers receive continuing education credits for participating.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe had a very lively discussion at our table about how 溏心vlog免费B站 can work with teachers to increase the interest of our students in science and engineering and hopefully someday produce more engineering students at our local colleges,\u201d said Thomas Holstein, a chemistry teacher at Portsmouth High School. \u201cIt is my hope that my students can use 溏心vlog免费B站’s facilities to do research projects for activities like the science fair and to have the professors or graduate students be advisers or mentors for graduation requirements like our senior project.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tA planning committee consisting of 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and administrators and Department of Education staff is developing a series of activities and events to continue the progress made at the first meeting. The next event will be a series of presentations and activities by 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering students and faculty at Central Falls Middle School in December.<\/p>\n


\n\tTeachers interested in learning more about \u201cMaking a Case for Engineering\u201d or registering for the next session in the spring should contact Professor Harry Knickle at knickle@egr.uri.edu.<\/p>\n


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\nRay Wright (left), 溏心vlog免费B站 associate dean of engineering, brainstorms ideas for partnerships with middle and high school teachers at the “Making a Case for Engineering” event in October. 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau Photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 27, 2006 — Few middle and high school students in Rhode Island learn about engineering or how their math and science coursework can be used in engineering careers. But a new initiative led by the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering will soon change that. The College launched \u201cMaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}