Building a Pathway to Engineering for Our Daughters – Brick by Brick

Author(s)

Ali P. Gordon, University of Central Florida

Description

The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).

Publication Date

8-10-2016

Keywords

Undergrad students; STEM; Kids; Lego; Toyps; STEM-oriented toys; Game products

Introduction

As a father of young elementary and middle school-aged kids, I’m also curious to know exactly how my undergrad students came to be interested in mechanical engineering. An exchange with a UCF student might go like this: “You did a great job on the exam. Congrats! By the way, how did you get interested in mechanical engineering, anyway?” I mentally log the answers for my kids’ future benefit.

Subjects

Engineering; Mechanical engineering; Teaching; Children; Youth; Education

Collection

UCF Forum

Publisher

University of Central Florida

STARS Citation

Gordon, Ali P(2016). Building a pathway to engineering for our daughters – brick by brick. UCF Today, 2016-08-10. Retrieved from https://today.ucf.edu/undefined-72/

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