High school tech teacher joins Stevens’ global project

HOBOKEN , N.J. — Stephen Peltier, a three-year technology education teacher at High Point Regional High School, in High Point, N.Y., has been selected to participate as a lead teacher for the Systems and Global Engineering Project (SAGE) sponsored by Stevens Institute of Technology. During the next three years, Peltier will plan production of model instructional materials, designed to introduce teachers and students to exciting concepts in systems and global engineering.

High Point students will benefit from the SAGE project as they participate in new activities that will be developed and tested. The state will benefit because the program will share the materials through collaborative websites that will reach students and teachers throughout New Jersey.

Peltier will work closely with the New Jersey Technology Education Association SAGE Project Coordinator and in consultation with The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens to:

• Develop student and teacher material content for curriculum modules in a format to be provided including overview, objectives, New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards and Standards for Technological Literacy references, resources, instructional procedures, activity sheets, and assessments.

• Test activities slated for draft modules in a classroom setting and provide comments.

• Assist with a four-day summer training session for selected pilot teachers, August 4-7, 2008 at Stevens Institute of Technology.

• Serve as a facilitator of at least one online short course (3-5 sessions) to be developed through the project.

• Attend team meetings and participate in conference calls related to the project.

• Participate in presentations at the New Jersey Technology Education Association annual conference.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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