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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University; Ronald Yeung, University of California, Berkeley; Spyros Kinnas, University of Texas, Austin

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Ocean and Marine

students, (vi) career placement upon graduation. These activities areconducted in collaboration with CISD personnel. The 10-week summer internships at CISDreally motivate students in the program. The impact of these activities on ocean engineeringeducation is assessed. At FAU, 23% of graduates participating ocean engineering graduates overthree years took up careers in Navy laboratories and ship related marine industry. Overall, 17% Page 14.686.2of all students interning at CISD over five years took up jobs at Navy laboratories.1. IntroductionNational Naval Responsibility for Naval Engineers (NNRNE) program was established by theOffice of Naval

Conference Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edgar An, Florida Atlantic University; Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University

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Ocean and Marine

high school students’ interests in pursuing science and engineering as their fields of study and careers, and to enhance the research experiences for the in-service high school teachers in science and technology areas so they can bring the knowledge and experiences back into their classrooms. Keywords: Project-based learning, K-16, Education Methods, Innovative Classroom Practice. 1. MOTIVATION Our outreach effort addresses the inadequacy of high school students in math and science literacy in the United States. According to [3], U.S. high school seniors ranked below their counterparts in 17 other countries in math and science literacy. In physics, U.S. high school seniors scored last among 16

Conference Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Simpson, United States Coast Guard Academy

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Ocean and Marine

, presence of a final exam (the complementary design courses did notinclude a final exam), etc. However, for at least some students, it would appear the barge projectmay have been the “petunia in the onion patch”.Positive student comments include:“I really enjoyed the barge project, the more hands on things the better.”“I think designing an icebreaker made this class particularly difficult. IACS is not nice. I reallylike the barge project. Overall, I thought it was a great course.”“Class was very difficult to follow. Text was not very good. Barge project was the best project Ihave done my whole academy career. I learned a lot from it.”“Testing the barges was the highlight of the semester. I enjoyed the hands on experience andeverything we learned in