Heads up, engineering faculty!

Next Wednesday, February 14, is Valentine’s Day – a perfect time for an Everyday Example in Engineering that involves chocolate!

Introduce first-year students to chemical engineering and its role in food processing with this lab-based lesson plan that’s familiar, relatable, and above all, tasty. It’s bound to be a hit with your students. 

Here’s a light and breezy tip for STEM faculty!

It’s April, spring is here, and you may be experiencing some good kite-flying weather. It’s a great time to teach students about aerodynamic forces. ENGAGE’s Everyday Examples in Engineering make it easy with a ready to use lesson plan on Aerodynamics of Kites. Check it out on ENGAGE Engineering.org and try it with your students!

Heads up, engineering faculty! March Madness is heating up as we approach the Final Four, and here’s a slam dunk lesson plan to increase your students’ interest and understanding of eccentric loading. 

Check out this Everyday Example in Engineering that explores the load on a basketball pole during different types of play, and think about entering your classroom with a bouncing basketball!

There's no time like the aftermath of a massive, show-stopping blizzard to introduce students to the concept of colligative properties.   

A Snowy Everyday Example in Engineering: One of our most downloaded lesson plans!

Increase the likelihood that your students will be interested in, intuitively understand, and better retain the information they learn.