Currently, STEM education and Education for Sustainability (EfS) are viewed as disconnected educational approaches in Pennsylvania classrooms. While both offer promising outcomes and have overlapping goals, research shows that separately they both face challenges to implementation. This study aims to strengthen both approaches by exploring the…

System Dynamics is a required course offered to junior Mechanical Engineering students at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. It addresses the intercoupling dynamics of a wide range of dynamic systems: including mechanical, electrical, fluid, hydraulic, electromechanical, and biomedical systems. This course is challenging for students due to the…

The Northampton County Area Community Colleges (Pennsylvania) have developed one approach to the problem of maintaining student-teacher contact and budget levels, while providing learning opportunities for increasing numbers of students. Class meetings and individual cassette-tape instruction are combined with pre-specified behavioral objectives…