Engineering Outreach in Middle School: The Influence of a Long-Term, School-Based Collaboration

摘要

This paper investigates the long term involvement oj graduate level engineering students in middle school science classrooms and reports the impact on participating graduate students and the middle school students they taught. Four years oj pre and post data were collected from a total of 19 graduate students, their research advisors, and over 1200 middle school students. Key findings for the graduate students included enhanced communication, teaching, and research abilities. Key findings for students included enhanced perceptions and understandings of engineering.