Explore Engineering: Rose Hulman’s Outreach To Middle And High School Students

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) places a high priority on reaching out to the local community. This is part of the formula for its success. Such outreach fosters service opportunities so students can discover engineering, mathematics, and science careers are about more than calculations, theories and books. Service is a fundamental aspect of being a professional and thus fundamental to our students’ education. Pedagogically, learning in the affective and social domains is enhanced by such activities, helping improve cognitive learning. Although our emphasis on outreach is a top-down initiative, newcomers to the RHIT community have always been surprised by how unselfishly the staff, students and faculty rally to be a part of community outreach.