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Assessing International Product Design and Development Graduate Courses: The MIT-Portugal Program
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Dori, Yehudit Judy; Silva, Arlindo – Advances in Engineering Education, 2010
The Product Design and Development (PDD) course is part of the graduate curriculum in the Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing (EDAM) study in the MIT-Portugal Program. The research participants included about 110 students from MIT, EDAM, and two universities in Portugal, Instituto Superior Técnico-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST) and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Manufacturing
Instructional Partnerships to Extend Learning in Urban High Schools: Lessons from New York City and Boston
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Foley, Eileen M.; Allender, Sara; Cooc, North; Edwards, Sara; Riley, Derek R.; Reisner, Elizabeth R. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2009
Late in 2007 New Visions for Public Schools, a New York City reform organization, received a grant from the C.S. Mott Foundation to organize select high schools and community partners into delivery systems that could improve student achievement. New Visions asked Policy Studies Associates, Inc. to provide research support for this effort in the…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, High Schools, Public Schools, Educational Change
"Leave School and Learn": Seekonk High School's Independent Study Program.
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Anderson, Jay D. – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
Describes the Independent Study Program of Seekonk High School (Massachusetts), a program that allows students to leave school on a regular basis to volunteer within the community. Seniors choose a project and submit it for approval. Suggestions are given for implementing and sustaining such a program. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Educational Change, High School Seniors, High Schools