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原文传递 Technology-Rich Transportation Engineering Projects.

题名：	Technology-Rich Transportation Engineering Projects.
作者：	Tewari, S.
关键词：	Diversity, Workforce, Multidisciplinary-projects, Training, Education
摘要：	This project targeted students in junior high school and high school through various workshops, demonstrations, and technical activities. These students were from all kinds of racial backgrounds and came from different parts of Texas, Louisiana and other states. Special focus was on underrepresented minorities in STEM fields and female students. In addition to this, high school teachers involved in STEM courses in and around north Louisiana were invited to a three-day training workshop hosted at Louisiana Tech University. Other major activities of the project were focused on providing freshman engineering students hands-on technology rich projects and expose them to various aspects of civil and transportation/traffic engineering. Upper level civil engineering students were targeted for transportation engineering specific activities and projects. Two three-day workshops were organized specifically to train university faculty involved with engineering students at various levels. One of such workshop was for Louisiana Tech faculty. The participants of this workshop were trained on Arduino based projects as well as several other educational projects that were designed for out-of-classroom type hands-on activities. The other three-day workshop was specifically for external faculty. About 15 faculty involved in various aspects of transportation engineering from 11 different universities were chosen based on their backgrounds. During this workshop the participants learned fundamentals of Arduino programming and different ways it could be included in class/lab activities for interactive and hands-on learning. During this workshop, a symposium on active learning techniques was organized in which participants presented case studies, techniques and interactive projects on promoting active and hands-on learning in Civil and Transportation Engineering.
报告类型：	科技报告