User:Vtaylor/Engineering/Book
part family history of three generations of engineers, what's cool about engineering and yes, Navier-Stokes explains everything
Contents
to do
2015.07
- interview / collect information about women in engineering - early interest, important moment, k-12 hobbies, engineering experience, supportive people. education experience - % women, graduation rate, attitudes towards women. work experience - Betty, SWE, ERAU
- engineering schools - applications, admissions, retention - erau, fit, ucf, uf ? daytona
- engineering in MDG / similar projects - humanitarian,
topics
- INTJs
- Designs for a better global tomorrow - Engineers Without Borders, MDG, humanitarian, environment, The Tech Awards. sustainable development
- #The Man Made World
- Family vacations and day-trips - MF farm, hydroelectric plants
- #Try this at home - reading, tools, encyclopedia, projects, encouragement
- Imagine that... - observation, games, play
- Failure: a learning experience
- Engineers and me - father, brother, husband, sons
- Engineering education 3T7, 6T9 and Millenials
- #Enough to be comfortable - visible minority, being one of the 10%
- #Navier-Stokes explains everything - Tufts
- Engineering - the missing E in K-8 STEM and STEAM
- Middle school - curiosity, innovation
- High school - preparation for Engineering school
- Engineering ideas, important words
- ?? transition from high school to engineering school
- US FIRST
- Something for everyone - branches, extensions
- So, what do engineers actually do?
- Women in Engineering -* bios - inspiration, why engineering, obstacles engineering, Julia Morgan
- Girls - middle school, girls orgs,
- Collaborations - engineering, science, art
- I can... activities - instructions for kids
- Oh the place you'll go - road trips, sites, events - on my list
- #Teaching K-8 Engineering - teacher resources, instructions, lesson plans
- Try, try again...
- Something new everyday
The Man Made World
The Man Made World high school course on engineering concepts and modern technology. The project was known as the Engineering Concepts Curriculum Project (ECCP). The Co-directors of the project were Professor John Truxal of PIB and Dr. Edward David of Bell Laboratories. Dr. Joseph Piel was the Executive Director of the project. The high school textbook The Man Made World was developed by the project and used in over 300 high schools in the United States. Primary funding for the project came from the National Science Foundation.
three parts: Logic and Computers, Models and Measurement, and Energy and Control.
Teaching K-8 Engineering
Many Colleges of Engineering and Education are collaborating to promote teaching and learning about engineering to K-8.
TEK8 - Translating Engineering Research to K-8 - This program is designed by Ohio State University (OSU) undergraduate engineering students for youth professionals, teachers and volunteers to use with youth in grades K-8. Each challenge includes two videos a Telling the story video and a Design Challenge video. These videos set the stage for the youth to use the engineering design process to create their own solution for the problem. Written materials accompany each design challenge.
- TEK8 African Water Pump Project - handouts, videos, instructor guide
What teachers know they don't know
- engineering, design process
- engineering ideas behind projects, linkage - forces, measurement, depth
Everything is Fluid Mechanics and Navier-Stokes equations -- Chris Rogers, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach
Our world is awash with fluid. From the blood that courses through our veins to the cytoplasm in every cell, our bodies are dependent on liquids. And we spend our lives at the bottom of the atmospheric ocean that is fluid air. You can't move without stirring this sea of gases, so ubiquitous they almost go unnoticed.
Enough to be comfortable
One of the chief deterrents for women entering engineering programs at college is being one of the 10-20% minority. In similarly challenging academic fields such as medicine and law, women are well represented. At many schools, women are in the majority.
Many young women just don't want to stand out. They belief that they will have to excel to be comfortable in this environment. Unlike their male counterparts with similar high school grades, girls are reluctant to run the risk of failing or being seen as performing poorly. A guy accepted to engineering school figures he can make it though to graduation. Girls aren't so sure.
There have been a few examples of engineering classes that had significant numbers of women.
- Curtiss - During World War II, women were recruited and trained as aeronautical engineers. Some design offices were staffed entirely by these specially trained women.
- ERAU Civil Engineering class of ? 2013 was ?40% women - albeit 12 /30 students.
- Olin College of Engineering Partners were 15 /15
- Harvey Mudd class of 2014 - 173 students—88 men and 85 women. May 2014
- University of Toronto - Women - Undergrads 26.8% of 4,488. Masters 22.2% of 870. Doctoral (PhD) 22.2% of 571 (2013)
- research to support,
Try this at home
Growing up, we were "exposed" to all things engineering. My dad was a project guy. He always had something on the go. Some were repairs - cars, home electrical. Others were original work - outdoor Christmas decorations, our house, some of the furniture.
- Tools - We had an adequate supply of tools. Well, probably a great assortment of tools. If there was a tool for a job, and it wasn't on hand, one was acquired, used and added to the appropriate storage location.
- Encyclopedia Britannica - We had a complete 24? volume set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. This was a huge investment, but it had been acquired as a salesman's demonstrator set. The first and last volumes had been used, and were lightly worn. The rest of the set was in mint condition. The set lived in the suspended bookshelf in the living room (another original Dad project). If a question came up at the dinner table, one of the kids was dispatched to retrieve the relevant volume.
- family meals - We almost always had dinner together as a family. Conversation was encouraged, especially if necessitated research in the form of consulting the omni present Encyclopedia Britannica. The menu was varied. Trying out recipes from the newspaper was routine, so we were introduced to curry, stir fry and liver long before these were fashionable with the foodistas.
- support for kids' projects - Thinking back, I am amazed by the support and encouragement we got for our projects. We were fortunate enough to have access to resources that cost money and/or needed transportation. Driving to the library, the fabric store, Girl Guide meetings, lumber yards, the welding shop, and occasionally the doctor's office were provided.
Cool stuff that other families did
