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Feeding the Recruitment of Inner City Kids to MSE by Keeping 5TH Graders on Track for Engineering in College

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

William E. Brower Jr
William E. Brower Jr*
Affiliation:
Professor College of Engineering, Marquette University, 1515 W. Wisconsin Ave., Inner City Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The fifth grade inner city volunteer teaching project (5GVP) at Marquette University's College of Engineering has attempted to inform and inspire Milwaukee's inner city fifth graders about engineering for the last ten years. Each year I have recruited our engineering students to volunteer to take self contained science lessons into the Milwaukee Public Schools'fifth grade classrooms. Although the lessons are on science and the career touted is engineering in general, the lessons are flavored by my being in MSE. Being excited about a career is certainly a precursor to choosing that career. I have found the fifth graders very excited about seeing and experiencing science in action as the engineering students present it to them. Hopefully, the program at Marquette will result in more inner city students choosing to enter college as engineers, with MSE garnering its usual share.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 632: Symposium HH – Materials Science and Engineering Education in the New Millenium , 2000 , HH5.4
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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