Encouraging More Students to Pursue Engineering

January 28, 2013

Millions of students visit museum exhibits each year. Matthew Berland and colleagues are studying how museum exhibits can be used to increase the number of students who follow pathways to eventual engineering careers. His project is creating an exhibit at the New York Hall of Science to help understand how informal engineering activities change students' pathways in ways that can eventually lead to more students pursuing engineering degrees. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the project will reach large numbers of students from groups under-represented in engineering degree programs. More about Berland's work is available here.