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Engineers Develop Gift Guide for Parents

posted by LaminatorX on Monday December 01 2014, @11:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the Science! dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Just in time for the holidays ...

Faculty and staff in Purdue University's College of Engineering have come up with a holiday gift guide that can help engage children in engineering concepts.
The "Engineering Gift Guide" was developed through the INSPIRE Institute for Pre-College Engineering, a part of the School of Engineering Education.
It features toys, games, books, movies and apps for mobile devices for a variety of ages. In addition to the selected items, the guide includes suggestions on finding other engineering-themed gifts.
"It's important to introduce engineering to children at a very young age – even before they reach kindergarten," says Monica Cardella, associate professor of engineering education and INSPIRE director. "One way to achieve this is simply putting a puzzle together or playing with building blocks and talking with the child about what they want to design, what ways they can accomplish that, and who or what could use their creation.

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-gift-parents.html

http://inspire-purdue.org/parent-materials

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Tuesday December 02 2014, @04:57PM

    by Common Joe (33) <common.joe.0101NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday December 02 2014, @04:57PM (#121916) Journal

    Actually, I did have an interest in fixing cars until he took me out there to work on it about a dozen times and I got to do zero. I got annoyed and decided I had better things to do. For a while, I wanted to be a mechanical engineer. Had he allowed me to work on the cars, I may have had a better understanding of mechanical things and done better at the university. Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

    You are right, though. He wasn't perfect, but he did the best he could and I give him huge points for that. I was sometimes angry at him as a teenager, but for the most part we get along pretty good these days.

    The point I was trying to make was that my father didn't support my brother or I in the mechanical world. I think it harmed us. My brother found a way to fix that. I never did.

    I don't mean to sound like I'm whining. I thought it was just an interesting counter story to the other guys in this thread.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 02 2014, @08:47PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday December 02 2014, @08:47PM (#121999) Journal

    Ah, I understand now. Yea having someone learn by watching vs. getting your hands dirty is borderline torture.