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Presentation
Creating Web Explorations In Science And Engineering
Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Disciplines
Conference
1996 Annual Conference
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-1996
Conference Title
1996 Annual Conference
Conference Date
June 23-26, 1996
Geolocation
(38.9071923, -77.03687070000001)
Abstract
A summer internship program is held at Iowa State University each year for undergraduate and high school women in science and engineering fields. In the summer of 1995 two high school women in this program, co-authors Roberts and Sandberg, created world-wide-web based multimedia explorations into topics in science and engineering which are common in our daily lives. The prototype documents placed on the web were well researched and scientific explanations of the phenomena at hand, but explained so that the average 6th or 7th grader (the target audience) could understand them. These two students were directly supervised by an undergraduate woman, co-author Collier, herself a former intern in this program.
The purpose of the internship program is to give young women experience in research laboratories under the mentorship of an Iowa State professor, thereby solidifying their interest in SEM (Science, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers. This particular research project not only provided such a research experience for the two high school women but it also provided an internship in supervising researchers for the undergraduate student as well as allowing a mentoring relationship for all three students with a professor, co-author Genalo.
Copyright Owner
American Society for Engineering Education
Copyright Date
1996
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Lawrence Genalo, Christine Collier, Michelle Roberts and Julie Sandberg. "Creating Web Explorations In Science And Engineering" Washington, D.C.Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference (1996) p. 1 - 11 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lawrence_genalo/15/
This is a conference proceeding from Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference (1996): 1. Posted with permission.