[sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"

[Graham Atkins]

Thanks for your I/P,

But I think we agreed to kill this thread and get back to SDIY.

Graham

On 22 Aug 2009, at 18:22, mailing gigaspeeds wrote:

>
> I'm forwarding this for someone who replied to me :  
> srmaietta at yahoo.com
>
> ~Steve Maietta
> +++++++++++++++ Reading all these posts, as a teacher, always  
> wondering how to improve my game, may I ask the S-DIY group a  
> question or two??
> -_How did that DIY, Engineering, Tinkering interest develop in YOU_?  
> Were you a math-capable person who got into engineering or a  
> tinkerer who got through the math?
> I know for me the hands-on, how's it work, tinkering mindset was  
> there since the first grade, perhape some of us are born with it?
> -_How can we nurture it?_
> some background.. I am a technology teacher at a high school in the  
> US.  This topic is of course very interesting to me because my main  
> goal is to get students interested in how things work/engingeering/ 
> tinkering, etc, and hopefully encourage them to make that jump to an  
> engineering/design course of study in College.  These kids have ZERO  
> Technology/Industrial arts classes until HighSchool where they are  
> then optional electives.. Kind of sad actually.
> I run very hands on projects, I encourage students to explore many  
> ideas and to redesign/try again.  I teach them how to use and get  
> them comfortable with hand and machine tools, and I teach them about  
> materials.  We take alot of "Junk" apart..    Mechanics/Electronics/ 
> Industrial Design/Tech, ethics, and society,CAD software..  these  
> are a few things I go over in this level one "Innovations and  
> Inventions" class.  I have synth schematics hung up all over the  
> place and we make atari punk consoles as the "Capstone" of the  
> electronics component of the class..  It's a great job.
> So If I could perhaps continue this discussion here or in private  
> emails with anyone... again  -How did that DIY, Engineering,  
> Tinkering interest develop in YOU? Were you a math person who got  
> into engineering or a tinkerer who got through the math?
> I know for me it was there since the first grade, perhape some of us  
> are born with it?
> -How can we nurture it?
> thanks
> ~Steve
>
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