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Integrated Learning Engineering (ILE)
Integrated Learning Engineering (ILE) provides secondary school students with an opportunity to study undergraduate engineering courses while still at school. As ILE delivers lectures and tutorials within schools on the sunshine coast and further afield (eg Gympie and Caboolture), it attracts students who live too far from the university to be involved in programs such as Headstart.
ILE is delivered via a collaborative partnership comprised of USC, secondary schools, Construction Skills Queensland and two education and training centres.
ILE Leader, Senior Lecturer Dr Richard White, describes the program as being collaborative, committed, learning and teaching focused, leading, responsive, sustainable and beneficial.
Objectives
- enhanced demand for places in engineering programs in Australian universities, and increased engagement activities with secondary schools
- greater awareness in secondary students of engineering as a career choice
- secondary students who are better prepared for tertiary education due to a prior experience of university education whilst still in secondary school
- an increase in the number of secondary students who choose to study mathematics and sciences in secondary school
- expansion of student numbers undertaking the ILE project so that the program becomes self-supporting
- to provide a practical model for other universities to use when establishing engagement activities with secondary schools (for a range of disciplines, not just engineering)
- a practical model that provides an alternate approach to creating stronger links between the university and external organisations (for a range of disciplines, not just engineering)
- ongoing co-operative relationships between collaborating organisations and participating schools associated with the ILE project
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Enquiries
For more information on the ILE, please contact:
Richard White
Senior Lecturer
School of Science and Education
Email: RWhite@usc.edu.au
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