Paper ID #19961A Pipeline of High Achievers to STEM ProgramDr. Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University Ravi Shankar has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madi- son, WI, and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. He is currently a senior professor with the Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Florida Atlantic Uni- versity. His current research interests are on K-12 education, engineering learning theories, and education data mining. He has been well funded by the high tech industry over the years. He has 7 US patents
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these, and all, fields of study to be in productive dialogue, not only tohelp solve the world’s problems, but also to help answer life’s biggest questions. It may turn outthat these two objectives are very much related.In the mid-1990s, writer John Brockman asserted the ascendency and predominance of scienceby publishing provocative interviews with several big-name scientists in his book, The ThirdCulture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. These scientists had been successful at popularizingtheir work by writing in a manner that captured the attention and imagination of the public.2 In asense, they represented a new integration of science and the humanities, since they were able toharness the power of compelling literature to promote scientific