"Community Outreach for Engineering Researchers" Course Offered in Spring 2013

Sign up for ECE 598EO to learn about best practices in engineering outreach and to create engineering design projects for middle school students. You will present a problem to local middle students and challenge them to solve it via design; this practicum is held on Fridays. Lecture is held on Tuesdays from 3:30-5pm, with topics including lesson plan development, grant writing and educational psychology of middle grade learners. You will also hear from engineering faculty and industry representatives who have been successful in implementing outreach projects. This course is open to graduate students in any engineering or science department. For more information, please see the iRISE website, www.irise.illinois.ed, or email info@irise.illinois.edu.

Instructors: S. Denos (Physics), E. Rosenbaum (ECE), A. Cangellaris (ECE), J. Muskin (NanoCEMMS)