Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

high school girls excel in relatingscience concepts to design projects – processes more akin to the way professional engineersoperate in the real world.35In his role as P.I. of the NSF-funded National Center for Learning and Teaching NanoscaleScience and Engineering, Chang is spearheading a new effort to develop, test, and implementinnovative nano-centered STEM curricula in secondary schools. The National ScienceFoundation’s decision to fund the NCLT is a further example of the way in which the NationalNanotechnology Initiative is catalyzing new developments in engineering education with far- Page 10.955.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American