Engaging high school and engineering students: A multifaceted outreach program based on a mechatronics platform

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 136-143

  Habash, Riadh W Y ^a   Suurtamm, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Engineering career; Math and science; Mechatronics; Outreach activities; Project based learning (PBL)

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS; ENGINEERING CAREER; ENGINEERING CAREERS; ENGINEERING CONCEPTS; ENGINEERING COURSE; ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; ENGINEERING PROFESSION; HIGH SCHOOL; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION; MECHATRONICS EDUCATION; MULTI-FACETED PROGRAMS; OUTREACH ACTIVITY; OUTREACH PROGRAMS; PROJECT BASED LEARNING; UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CURRICULA; MECHATRONICS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 76449109572     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2009.2025659     Document Type: Article

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