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WSU has applied for a $2 million grant, to be voted on next Sunday by the Knight Foundation's national board, to greatly expand pre-engineering courses in Wichita public schools.
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Toro-Ramos is coordinating an effort to expand Project Lead the Way, a program already in place in Wichita schools that offer pre-engineering courses on topics such as engineering design, computer integrated manufacturing, and civil engineering and architecture.
What about basic skills like reading & math? What about more (& much better) physics courses in high school? What about more math courses in high schools?
Aircraft companies need to fill 400 to 500 additional engineering jobs and thousands of skilled-labor jobs, said Zulma Toro-Ramos, dean of the College of Engineering at WSU. Company executives told her that schools need to better prepare students for those jobs.
Is WSU teaching vocational courses? Foreign students would love to stay here as engineers if they could get jobs.