STEM Education Institute Tuesday Seminar
"Working Together to Improve the STEM Pipeline"
Krishna Vedula
Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
This presentation will focus on successful collaborations between K-12, higher education and business to improve the STEM Pipeline. In particular, Dr. Vedula will describe his efforts to build such collaborations over the past 7 years in MA. Such efforts have multiple goals: the need to emphasize the importance of STEM education for the future of the economy and jobs for youth; demonstrate real world engineering and technology examples for improving MCAS math and science scores; engage business leaders and higher education faculty; assist STEM teachers to enhance student performance in STEM disciplines; help recruit women and minorities and help recruit and retain high quality STEM teachers.
The recently formed Regional PreK-16 Networks are focusing on these goals. Dr. Vedula will describe the progress of these Networks, which were formed with support from State in the form of a Pipeline Fund.