Tag: K-12 Workforce Development

Principal Investigators:  Nina Barker, UFTI/T2 and Leslie Washburn, P.E., UFTI The University of Florida STRIDE effort will participate in the four K-12 outreach activities and propose another activity. We will work with local engineering firms and alumni to subsidize these outreach activities whenever possible with sponsorship and donations, which can be counted as STRIDE match […]

Principal Investigator: Virginia Sisiopiku, Ph.D. The proposed project expands K-12 engineering workforce development and outreach efforts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) that introduce transportation engineering as a career to students and parents. Exposing young students and parents to transportation will help to recruit more and brighter students to the transportation field. The […]

Proposed Project: Outreach Activities Incorporating LEGO® Robot Vehicles PIs: James Martin, P.E. and Nina Barker, UFTI/T2, including Leslie Washburn, UFTI The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) at North Carolina State University proposes eight outreach activities that will incorporate LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots into workshops in two locations in North Carolina. These workshops will […]

Engaging in Engineering Initiative with Centennial Elementary School STRIDE Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology PI: Yanzhi (Ann) Xu, Ph.D. and Alice Grossman Additional Research Volunteers: Members of Georgia Tech ITE Student Chapter Researchers from The Georgia Institute of Technology will work with 5th grade students at Centennial Place Elementary School to introduce elements of Engineering […]