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The Inspire Innovation
Workshop will be hosted on 7 June
2008 for educators as
well as IEEE/ASCE/ASME/JETS members who
are interested in helping
their local schools, teachers and
students be more technologically
literate.
The session will inform
engineers on effective strategies to
build working relationships
with schools and school systems, and
will provide lesson plans
and materials that can be used in the
classroom. The program will initially
lead to professional
development program training sessions
for local educators.
This workshop will provide
you with the resources to aid teachers
by leveraging the existing engineering
knowledge and skills in your
area towards improving
teachers’ knowledge of
engineering concepts.
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The
overall goals of the workshop are:
- Empower engineering society
“champions” to develop
collaborations with their local
pre-university education community to promote
applied inquiry-based learning.
- Enhance the level of technological
literacy of pre-university educators.
- Encourage pre-university students to
pursue technical careers, including
engineering.
- Increase the general level of
technological literacy of pre-university
students for many years.
- Increase the level of understanding of
the needs of educators among the
engineering community
- Identify ways that engineers can assist
education departments
The event
is part of ASME's Annual Meeting,
at Walt Disney World Swan Hotel, Swan 3
– 4, Ground Level
in Orlando, Florida and will
begin at 8:00 am on Saturday, 7
June. It will include hands-on
presentations, a question and answer period,
and discussion on numerous topics, including:
background and scope of IEEE/ASCE/ASME/JETS,
engineering activities and the alignment of
these activities with education standards,
connecting with your local pre-university
community, and pre-university education
resources.
Event Closed.
Questions? Contact IEEE: Yvonne Pelham,
y.pelham@ieee.org,
+1 732 562 5321 or Jennifer Callow, j.callow@ieee.org,
+1 732 562 5496; ASME: Edie Kudlis, kudlise@asme.org,
+1 212 591 7020; ASCE: Lisa Jennings, ljennings@asce.org,
+1 703 295 6405 or Shana Gipson, sgipson@asce.org,
+ 1 703 295 6418; or JETS: Leann Yoder, lyoder@jets.org,
+1 703 548 5387 x105
