Sustainability of K-12 engineering outreach activities beyond the grant period

Author

Karp, Tanja ; Gale, Richard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We describe the successful implementation of a pipeline of engineering outreach activities for K-12 students based on funds made available by a Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium (TETC) Texas Youth in Technology Demonstration Project Grant. In addition to educating K-12 students about the engineering discipline we also aim at improving our electrical and computer engineering undergraduate student retention rate by employing undergraduate students as mentors. We show how key investments and partnerships built during the grant period enable us to continue and grow our outreach and mentoring programs.

Keywords

computer science education; electrical engineering education; K-12 engineering sustainability; computer engineering undergraduate; electrical engineering undergraduate; Agricultural engineering; Biomedical engineering; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Educational robots; Electrical engineering computing; Employee welfare; Engineering profession; Engineering students; Pipeline processing; K-12 engineering outreach; robotics student mentors; sustainability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009. FIE '09. 39th IEEE

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4715-2

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2009.5350813

Filename

5350813