Supporting Students’ STEM Innovations with Industry Partners
Description
Many universities employ STEM outreach programs to spark interest in their disciplines by middle and high school students. Teaching Engineering Concepts to Harness Future Innovators and Technologists (TECHFIT) and the Nanoline Contest are two programs that are designed to give student teams an opportunity to explore STEM concepts with a final goal of innovating an automated system. This paper will discuss a partnership between an international controls company and an R1 university that makes both of these programs successful in recruiting students to computing, engineering, and technology disciplines.
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