NEAT

New Engineering and Applied Technology

Welcome to NEAT (New Engineering and Applied Technolgy)

Providing K12 faculty with the knowledge and the tools to teach technology, and to use technology to help make learning fun!

NEAT June 7-11, 2010 - An introductory course open to all K12 faculty
Due to the low attendance last year, there will not be an NEAT2 this year. If you are an alum of NEAT 1 and what to participate in this year's activities, contact Dr. Steele at (jsteele@mines.edu).

Click -> NEAT 2010 Registration Form <- to register

For information about NEAT , send an email to John Steele at CSM (jsteele@mines.edu)


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NEAT 2010

Since 2008 we have been using the new NXT Mindstorms robot. The NXT shifts the focus slightly from building (assembling Lego bricks) to software and applications. The capability of the NXT processor is significantly more than the RCX (yellow brick), and there are more types of sensors (e.g., ultrasonic distance sensors, and sound sensors) and they do new things like getting the robot to start at the clap of your hands! The new software development environment is more intuitive and folks pick it up even faster.

We are looking forward to another great year and lots of new enthusiastic robo-learners.

Welcome to NEAT

The NEAT (New Engineering and Applied Technology) workshops have a mission of providing both information about and experience with engineering to teachers in primary and secondary schools. The objectives of the workshops are threefold:
· First, we hope to develop, among the teachers who attend, a better understanding of what engineers to do.
· Second, we provide these teachers with an in-depth exposure to some aspects of our engineering curriculum.
· Third, the workshops provide materials and experiences from the workshop that can be taken, by these teachers, back to their classrooms and shared with their students.

The purpose for these objectives is to make teachers better equipped to:
· have a good appreciation for the engineering profession,
· be able to describe engineering careers to their students,
· provide their students with better information about possible future career paths that include engineering, mathematics and science.