The STEM loop: Undergraduate engineering students create a STEM children's book Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • American Society for Engineering Education, 2016. This paper documents an innovative project in which undergraduate mechanical engineering students created and produced a children's book about combustion engines. Funded through a grant provided by Texas A&M University at Qatar, students researched, designed, and wrote a children's book intended to promote interest in STEM fields. The book, written in both English and Arabic, will be used in Qatari public schools and in the Texas A&M University at Qatar's STEM Outreach Program. The interdisciplinary project was co-led by a mechanical engineering professor and an english professor. Students gained valuable transferable skills while working on this project including creative thinking, audience awareness, teamwork, technical writing, visual design, and communication. The authors of this paper, who include the students that worked on the project, aim to promote and encourage the idea of undergraduate students actively engaging and creating STEM programs and initiatives for K-12.

published proceedings

  • ASEE 2016 International Forum

author list (cited authors)

  • Seawright, L., & Hassan, I.

complete list of authors

  • Seawright, L||Hassan, I

publication date

  • January 2016