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EDUCATION
The PPS Center will affect
education from elementary grades through graduate
school, with a principal focus at the undergraduate
and graduate level in engineering.
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GOALS:
-Increase visibility for Engineering and UCI
-Mentor promising students at all levels
-Encourage under-represented minorities to enroll and succeed in engineering
-Provide outreach technology training to affiliated institutions |
The Education is both systems oriented and
interdisciplinary; Outreach builds on substantial
existing infrastructure
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- Facilities summer enrichment programs for high-school students
- Development of grade-level appropriate MicroPower demonstration devices that can, after training teachers in their use, be disseminated to K-12 classrooms.
- Plan rapid-prototype capability for use
extensively in these educational activities.
- Provide educational materials through the World Wide Web.
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for Undergraduate Outreach Programs |
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- Create specialization in energy systems under the Mechanical Engineering major
- Develop interdisciplinary biological/power courses for introduction into the biomedical engineering major
- Provide ample opportunity for undergraduate student research involvement
- Target talented underrepresented minorities in science, mathematics, and engineering |
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for Graduate Outreach Programs |
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- Create unprecedented opportunity for research projects across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
- Special research involvement mechanisms created to encourage participation of students (both graduate and undergraduate) from Outreach Universities and Community Colleges.
- New graduate courses to serve these interdisciplinary demands will also be created.
- To serve interested individuals from industry, the Center will include two-way internship opportunities.
- Bring industrial participants to the University.
- Take University participants (students and faculty) to industrial settings when appreciation of the target technology is needed. |
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