SCALE K-12: Engaging K-12 Schools and Teachers in Microelectronics Workforce Development

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT

Location: Workforce Development Stage

Speaker (WFD)(s)

Tamara J. Moore, PhD

Program Director, Professor, and University Faculty Scholar
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, United States
Greg J. Strimel, PhD

Deputy Program Director
Purdue University
Morgan M. Hynes, PhD

Associate Professor
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, United States
S. Selcen Guzey, PhD

Professional Programming Lead
Purdue University

In this session we will discuss our experiences engaging K-12 schools and teachers to provide students in their districts with the content, contexts, and career related information relevant to their particular community and career pathways. These experiences, while based on microelectronics (ME) topics, can inform similar workforce development projects in schools across the U.S. We will introduce our model for engaging schools, which includes whole district policy change through ME vertical alignment, curriculum development with teachers and industry, and out-of-school experiences to round out the multiple ways that students in our program. We will also provide access to our vertical alignment tools, a curriculum development framework, and provide details related to the implementation of one curriculum unit. We will offer time to allow participants to browse additional ME-integration units across the K-12 curriculum.