[Systems Engineering Teachers' Mailing List] New approaches to studying engineering

[Tran, Lorraine I]

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Laughing, clipboard-toting fourth-graders are
crammed into a hallway at a college outside Boston watching with evident
delight as an 18-inch-long mechanical caterpillar with four suction-cup
feet goes wiggling up the window. The 9- year-old evaluators diligently
take notes and then move on to where a shoebox-size device called a fire
snail is slithering up a windowpane and a motorized flying squirrel is
gliding through the air to land with a bump on the floor. 

Welcome to the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, a five-year-old
educational experiment that's turning the business of training engineers
upside down. 


Read more....


http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/10
0050982/index.htm


 


 


 

Lorraine Tran

Curriculum Manager, P - 12 Design and Technology

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA)

41 St Andrews Place

East Melbourne 3002

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au

 

Email: tran.lorraine.i at edumail.vic.gov.au

Telephone: (03) 9651 4407

Mobile:       041 933 1630

 

The VCAA provides curriculum and assessment for prep to Year 12. The
VCAA is a statutory body directly responsible to the Minister for
Education and Training and serves government and non-government schools.


 


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