Achievement

Outreach activities are an important part of professional development in our IGERT program. These activities provide a service to community, and allow our students to hone their public communication and interdisciplinary teamwork skills. In the past year our students logged 400 to 500 student-hours of community service, and have approached or surpassed 2,500 student-hours for our IGERT lifetime. Examples include indoor air demonstrations and presentations at Explore UT, an annual public open house on the UT campus, My Introduction to Engineering (MITE) Science camp (100 high school students), Women in Engineering Program, UTEACH Engineering (high school science teachers), UT Environmental Science Institute (evening events for the public), and the Ann Richards All-Girls Middle School. Our students judge science projects at an elementary school, mentor undergraduate students, and in the past year even developed six public service announcements that have been placed on YouTube.