Monday, March 3rd 2:15 - 3:15 pm - Regent 3

Engineering Your Future – Affordable, Adaptable, Scalable STEM Education
Michelle Shaffer, Science Teacher / Mount Notre Dame High School; Brian Lien, Technology Teacher / Princeton High School; Eugene Rutz, Academic Director / University of Cincinnati; and Rachael Meyer, Student / Mount Notre Dame High School

This session describes how four Cincinnati-area high schools and the University of Cincinnati developed and delivered an engineering and technology course for high school students through a collaborative process, in just over one year. With not much more than a common desire to improve students’ access to engineering and technology content (certainly no budget) the collaborators developed content and pedagogy that fit the varying needs of all-girls schools and large public schools with diverse student populations. Through this session, high school instructors, high school students and the UC project leader will describe the process and outcomes of their effort. Anyone interested in a model for improving STEM education is likely to benefit from this session.

You can learn more about the program at the web site www.eng.uc.edu/eet