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Up Close - Engineering - July 17, 2009
Attracting future engineers with more hands-on learning
Study evaluates whether such a curricula change might boost enrollment


The key to improving engineering programs while also boosting the number of women interested in the male-dominated field might be curricula that emphasize hands-on, service-based learning as well as traditional academic and technical knowledge.

With a $500,000 grant from the Nation-al Science Foundation, Chris Swan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Tufts School of Engin-eering, in Boston, and a team of research-ers are taking a look at this theory. The...


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