Graduate Student Personal Experiences: Improving Collegiate Teaching Through K 12 Outreach

In 1995, the National Science Foundation published recommendations for Systemic Engineering Education Reform. 1 Almost a decade later, the engineering education community still strives to meet the long-term challenges that were set forth by the NSF Engineering Directorate. The goal still remains to educate graduating engineers to: E Understand the functional core of the engineering process, E Analyze and synthesize engineering problems, E Become proficient working in teams, E Think across disciplines, and E Communicate ideas effectively to diverse groups. One of the key actions for sustaining such cultural changes is to train future engineering faculty to realize this new engineering education paradigm.