High School Focus: International Science and Engineering Fair Winners Announced

The integration of nano-science and technology concepts into upper-division high school and lower-division college curricula will require innovative educational approaches that will help students understand the structures and properties of matter on a scale below 100 nanometers, i.e., the nanoscale. This Interactive Nano-Visualization in Science and Engineering Education (IN-VSEE) project will create a consortium of university and industry researchers, community college and high school science faculty, computer scientists and museum educators with a common vision of creating an interactive World Wide Web (WWW) site to develop a new educational thrust based on remote operation of advanced microscopes and nanofabrication tools coupled to powerful surface characterization methods. The centerpiece of this project is the web-based operation of the revolutionary scanning probe microscope (SPM), which has evolved rapidly into a relatively simple, yet powerful, technique capable of imaging and manipulating materials at resolutions down to the atomic scale.

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The Common Diseases of Technical Writing

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication ◽

10.2190/kwtd-yfh3-7ad7-5k6l ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 37-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

George H. Douglas

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Technical Writing ◽

College Level ◽

Freshman English ◽

Science And Engineering ◽

High School English ◽

Teaching College ◽

Technical Writers ◽

The Common ◽

Intellectual Discipline

This paper discusses some of the main reasons for the weakness of much technical writing. It suggests that in teaching college-level students in science and engineering curricula the writing teacher should focus mainly on those weak areas, many of which are neglected in high school English courses or in traditional freshman English. If scientific and technical writers can be taught to make a rigorous intellectual analysis of their writing and can be steered away from simplistic and simple-minded formulas they will come to have enough respect for writing as an intellectual discipline that they can be motivated to bring about actual improvement in their written work.

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Projects

Mathematics Teacher ◽

10.5951/mt.89.1.0077 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 89 (1) ◽

pp. 77

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

American Indian ◽

High School Seniors ◽

State University ◽

Oklahoma State University ◽

Science And Engineering ◽

Engineering Society ◽

American Indian Students ◽

Indian Tribes ◽

Indian Students

A new summer camp for high school seniors at Oklahoma State University (OSU) has brought together American Indian students from several states to study enrichment topics in mathematics. Twenty-six high school seniors from fourteen American Indian tribes participated in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) camp at Oklahoma State University during summer 1994. The students came from Oklahoma, New Mexico, North Dakota, California, Arkansas, North Carolina, Arizona, Montana, Tennessee, and Alaska. The tribes represented included Arapahoe, Chippewa, Choctaw, Tliogit, Pueblo, Cheyenne, Potawatomi, Sioux, Navajo, Wichita, Lumbee, and Hoopa.

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