Heads Up, STEM Faculty! April is International Guitar Month.
Take a Leap of Faith with FSI
Just like the Gregorian calendar, we can all benefit from a little periodic realignment.
For engineering faculty, that’s where ENGAGE Engineering’s Faculty-Student Interaction Strategies come in!
These time-effective, ready-to-implement quick tips can have positive impacts on student learning, success, and retention. Course evaluations improve too!
Winnie the Pooh and Bouyancy
Heads up, Engineering and Physics faculty!
January 18, A. A. Milne’s birthday, is Winnie the Pooh Day.
Celebrate with an Everyday Example in Engineering lesson plan on buoyancy. Watch the creative animated short where Pooh and Piglet soar above the treetops with just three balloons. Then ask your students, “How many balloons would it REALLY take?”
Check out all our Everyday Examples at ENGAGE Engineering.
Is the Shape of a Soda Can Truly Optimal?
Sometimes we forget how much language, experience, and what is familiar, differ for people based on their age.
Dr. Bernd Schroeder of Louisiana Tech University created an everyday example in engineering using soda cans to pose the calculus problem: Is the Shape of a Soda Can Truly Optimal?
What's Your Everyday Example? Find out how to start.