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Coppola, Matthew Perkins; Merz, Alice H. – Science and Children, 2017
Today, elementary school teachers continue to revisit old lessons and seek out new ones, especially in engineering. Optimization is the process by which an existing product or procedure is revised and refined. Drawn from the authors' experiences working directly with students in grades K-5 and their teachers and preservice teachers, the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Preservice Teachers, Engineering Education
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Liberatore, Matthew W. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2010
YouTube Fridays is a teaching tool that devotes the first five minutes of class each Friday to a YouTube video related to the course. Students select the videos, which expand the class's educational content in courses such as thermodynamics and material and energy balances. From assessments of two pilot studies using YouTube Fridays in Chemical…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Thermodynamics, Chemical Engineering, Educational Technology
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Fricke, I.; Horak, E.; Meyer, L.; van Lingen, N. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
International benchmark studies confirm that school mathematics and science education in South Africa is weak and suffers from systemic problems. The Teacher Mentorship Programme (TMP) based at the Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering of the University of Pretoria was borne out of lessons learnt from ongoing outreach and awareness…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intervention, Pilot Projects, Educational Change
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Moreno, Lorenzo; Gonzalez, Carina; Castilla, Ivan; Gonzalez, Evelio; Sigut, Jose – Computers & Education, 2007
In this paper, a methodological educational proposal based on constructivism and collaborative learning theories is described. The suggested approach has been successfully applied to a subject entitled "Computer Architecture and Engineering" in a Computer Science degree in the University of La Laguna in Spain. This methodology is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Computer Science
Yanping, Ann – 1994
This document describes a project which served Chinese-speaking students of limited English proficiency in grades 9-12. Participating students received instruction in English as a Second Language, native language arts (NLA), and the content area subjects of mathematics, science, pre-engineering, computer literacy, and social studies. Students were…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Engineering Education, High School Students, High Schools