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Bridging the Gap: Making Education Work for Industry
At the Real World Design Challenge in Washington DC last month high-school teams from around the United States presented their eco-friendly aircraft and land transport designs to an impressive lineup of officials from industry, education and government. Projected on the podium backdrop was a personal letter from President Obama. It read: “America has always been a nation of discoverers, tinkerers …
Why Do Women Matter in Engineering and Science?
This week, a group of trailblazing women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields met for a roundtable at the White House to share their experiences and encourage young women to follow in their footsteps. The President has made STEM, and particularly STEM for women, a pet project. Take a look at the White House Science Fair in February, …
3 Questions for a FIRST Mentor
Last week, I caught up with Keith Gargiulo of PTC. Gargiulo is a mentor for FIRST Robotics team MARS WARS, based out of Metamora, Illinois. He’s a passionate advocate for the FIRST program, so I wanted to ask him why and how he got involved with mentoring. Here’s what he had to say: Can you describe your job as a …
Students Take on Aeronautical Design Challenge, Get Job Offers From Industry
Orville and Wilbur Wright first became interested in flight as boys when their father gave them a rubber-band-powered helicopter toy. And on a brisk winter’s day in 1903 the brothers became the first to pilot a heavier-than-air machine for a prolonged length of time. The pair crashed most of the planes they built, but they never gave up. Over a …
ABET Accreditation: Capturing Evidence of Skill Development
Engineering programs at US colleges and universities keep the ABET accreditation criteria in mind when developing new course content, but the critical piece is the current curriculum. A challenging aspect of the ABET accreditation process is capturing evidence that students are not just passing tests, but developing engineering skill through their course work. What constitutes evidence of assimilation and application …
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Tagged ABET, Accreditation, college, math education, STEM, University
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Rookie Robotics Team Gears Up for FIRST Championships
MARS WARS—a student robotics team based in Metamora, Illinois, just can’t contain its excitement. The team’s been invited to participate in the FIRST Robotics championships in St. Louis in just a few weeks time. Metamora teachers and students decided they wanted to start a robotics team after attending last year’s FIRST regional playoffs. And with a lot of hard work …
Go FIRST-y, not Hungry
In about a week I will be in St. Louis for the FIRST Championship Event at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO. I am really pumped. If you have never been to a FIRST Robotics competition (there are many around the country each year), here is a little taste of why I am excited: And, that was …
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Tagged FIRST Championships, FIRST Robotics, Mathcad, PTC Academic Program
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Industry Leaders, Educators and Government Collaborate at STEM Symposium
Did you know that over the past 50 years taxpayer investment in technology and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education has directly produced more than half of the nation’s economic growth? And yet 2.6 million jobs, mainly in fields like healthcare, aerospace, advanced precision manufacturing, scientific laboratory occupations, and computer-related design, are unfilled, according to a May 2010 U.S. …
High School Students Design Eco-Friendly Plane for Real World Design Challenge
For one group of students from Marlborough High School in Massachusetts it’s not been an average spring term. They’ve been given a challenge: to design a low-carbon-emission and environmentally friendly two-man sport aircraft that can fly at 1000 feet from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC), which began …
FIRST Robotics Teams Battle for Place in Finals
The FIRST Robotics Competition is heating up, with teams from all over the United States thrashing it out for a place in the St. Louis April finals. This weekend past, Washington teens competed at Seattle-based CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks. Dozens of teams packed the floor, making final tweaks to their bots, the outcome of many weeks hard …
