Drexel University in collaboration with The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is currently seeking to increase the number of minority and woman students attaining green Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees through network-curriculum-based efforts. Leveraging the expertise of the University in Cyber Learning and Sustainability, this collabrative effort with UTEP aims to increase the number of students entering STEM fields and successfully retain them by augmenting their interest towards STEM through tailored student centric activities addressing student comprehension and factors related to their educational experience.
The goals of the project include:
- Developing cyber enabled courses and laboratories with Drexel University for enhancing green STEM learning
- Encouraging students to engage in green STEM disciplines
- Developing world-class online green STEM workforce best practices;
- Attracting and retaining STEM talent through a joint education environment
- Delivering coordinated and cohesive green STEM education programs through the Minority Innovation Engineering Research for Student Success (MINERSS) Laboratory.
In order to meet these goals, the proposed work will develop a student-centric green STEM program tailored for augmenting student interest in STEM, establishmentor-mentee relationships among the students at the various institutions, launch a 3-D online learning community equipped with internet of things technologies, build an online learning community and repository for students, provide stipends and incentives to students to encourage continuity in degrees in STEM, create a university-high school student partnership, and building workshops and educational sessions every semester to inform the potential student community and parents to establish the importance of encouraging students to pursue careers in STEM.
A link for The University of Texas at El Paso website can be found here