We here at KYSITE hope you and your families had a wonderful holiday season and are surviving the first week back to work. We're looking forward to an exciting 2016 for KYSITE and can't wait to share all that's in store.
Anthony Norman, a UK Civil Engineering Masters Degree student and KYTC employee shares about the need for engineering outreach with some examples from KYTC's KEEN program. Below is a summary, and you can read the entire article here.
In engineering education, several issues need to be addressed in order to improve the education of engineers and to recruit more people to the field of engineering. Outreach is one way to address these issues. This paper looks into several methods and ways to conduct outreach. Since, outreach by engineers in the public and private sector is needed to help introduce students to engineering and plant the seeds for future engineers. This paper also looks into the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's outreach program, Kentucky Engineering Exposure Network (KEEN), to show how it conducts outreach.
Mysterious Old Bridges
We've finally made it to the last bridge on our list of Mysterious Old Bridges. Thanks to Charles Schaub for passing these along!
