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2009 Premier Courseware Award Winner

The 2009 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded today to two groups for the courseware SIMSE submitted by Emily Navarro and colleagues, and CATME/Team-Maker submitted by Matthew Ohland and colleagues.

The award was presented at the Premier Award Ceremony at the Frontiers in Education Conference, held this year in in San […]

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Announcing the Winner of the 2009 Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering

The Engineering Pathway announces the first winners of our new Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering.
Congratulations to
Susan Powers and Jan DeWaters of Clarkson University, for their original middle school curricular unit entitled, Energy Systems and Solutions.
In this unit, students explore energy production and consumption issues from everyday life, learning about our nation’s energy […]

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2009 Premier Award Competition - Submission date July 17

Have you developed courseware - interactive websites, simulations, tutorials, case studies, software environments or tools - designed to enhance engineering education? We want to see it! Submissions due July 17, 2009.
The Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware, hosted by the Engineering Pathway, is open to a wide range of submissions of high-quality, […]

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Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: First Martin Luther King Day

Today in History - January 20, 1986 - First federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King. Through fifteen years of the persistent efforts of Congress Members John Conyers (Michigan), Shirley Chisholm (New York) and an army of other supports, Martin Luther King Day legislation was passed in 1983. A number of changes were required for it […]

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Shodor’s New Web Site Provides a Better Equation to Help Students, Educators

Please contact Mary Paisley, Communications Coordinator, Shodor at mpaisley@shodor.org for more information.
Durham, NC Things just became a lot better – and easier – for students and educators nationwide.
Shodor, a non-profit organization based in Durham, has rolled out a major redesign and upgrade of its award-winning Web site to make it easier to navigate and explore […]

Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology

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