Director's message

 

“ Place engineering in the world; encourage students to draw connections.
Because engineering inevitably means intervening in the world, all engineering projects carry with them responsibility for the effects of those interventions. Students need powerful learning opportunities much like that of medical students on their first introduction to the clinical care of actual patients, in order to recognize that they will always need to know much more than they do, and that social and ethical connections are at least as important as electrical and mechanical ones.”

• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, report on Engineering Education (2008)

At the Office of Outreach, our mission is to work with organizations across campus, throughout the community, and around the world to develop these “powerful learning opportunities” for our students. Through specialized coursework, opportunities to teach younger students, opportunities to be mentored by professionals, and study abroad, we seek the continual development of our students’ sense of “engineering in the world”.

We seek to emphasize our student interaction with the next generation of potential engineering students, promoting their abilities as problem solvers and involved citizens. The website is arranged to reflect our programs a) for our current students, and b) for the next generation. Thank you for visiting!

 

 

 

Contact Information

Engineering Outreach
Dr. Roger Parsons, Director
100 Estabrook Hall
Phone: (865) 974-6064
Email: jparsons@utk.edu