Our work on the AEROFAIR outreach project has recently been published and presented at the Regional Conference on Engineering Education (RCEE 2016) on 9 August 2016 in Kuala Lumpur. The article is “Outreaching and Engaging Students with STEM through AEROFAIR“. The PDF file of the article can be downloaded from the given link. The article […]
Category: Outreach
(There are two parts to this FlyOutreach project. The flying vehicles part is described in this post.) The main goal of the outreach part of this project is essentially to get more secondary school students interested in science. Here, I’m referring to science in general, which includes fields related to math, engineering, and technology. The […]
BackgroundIn Malaysia, the issue of students lacking interest in science and math is becoming more critical. One report in 2012 showed that only 20% of students in the secondary schools are taking up the science stream, while the rest are in the art stream. This is far from our national target to have 60% students […]