IEEE-USA In Action
[Posted: 23 June 2006]
New Engineering Careers Brochure
Unveiled for
11-13-Year-Old Students, Children's
Museums |
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WASHINGTON (23 June 2006) — IEEE-USA has
unveiled a new six-panel engineering careers
brochure that is designed for 11-13-year-old,
sixth-to eighth-grade U.S. students. Titled "My
Science, My Math, My Engineering! How Am I Ever
Going to Use This Stuff in the Real World?," the
brochure: (1)lists courses youngsters should
take to get ready for engineering; (2) shows how
they can figure out "if engineering is
interesting"; and (3) asks "what could *you* do
if you were an engineer?" In one of the brochure
panels, James Michener, the novelist and short
story writer, is quoted: "Scientists dream about
doing great things, engineers do them."
Some 20,000 copies of "My Science, My Math, My
Engineering!" have been preordered by more than
two-dozen U.S. children's museums. These
include: The Exploratorium, in San Francisco;
the Science Museum of Virginia, in Richmond; and
the Buffalo Museum of Science. Large quantities
have also been requested by organizations with
K-12 student sci-tech enrichment programs, such
as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
Livermore, Calif.; and the U.S. Space & Rocket
Center, in Huntsville, Ala.
Members of IEEE-USA's Precollege Education
Committee, including a school teacher, drafted
the text. And IEEE-USA volunteer members
pretested the brochure for readability and
design with students in the target age range.
"My Science, My Math, My Engineering!"
complements an earlier IEEE-USA publication
aimed at high-school students, "Careers in
Electrical, Electronics and Computer
Engineering."
To see the new brochure for younger students, go
to
www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/pec/Precollege_brochure.pdf
Copies can be obtained without charge by writing
to IEEE-USA Communications Assistant Helen Hall
at h.hall@ieee.org.
For more information on IEEE-USA, go to
www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact:
Pender M. McCarter, APR, Fellow PRSA, MIPRA
IEEE-USA Director of Communications & Public
Relations
Phone: + 1 202 530 8353
E-mail:
p.mccarter@ieee.org
Last Update:
04 September 2007 |
