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Sue Ellen Haupt - Education and Outreach

Weather Education at Nature Centers - Drs. Sue Ellen Haupt and James J. Barta (Elementary Education-USU) were funded by the state of Utah through a Community/University Research Initiative grant to site a weather station at Stokes Nature Center in Logan Canyon. They worked closely with faculty and students in environmental education, the US Forest Service personnel, staff at the Nature Center and Campbell Scientific engineers to complete this project. A meteorology learning module was developed and successfully piloted with fourth grade classes in the community. They then worked with Nature Center staff to develop displays that can be used by visitors and school groups to interpret the data and learn about weather and applications of mathematics to science.

K-12 SMET Education - Dr. Haupt has actively participated in various activities related to getting younger students interested in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology areas. Besides giving science and engineering demonstrations in schools and Girl Scout Troops, for six years she organized (together with Dr. R.L. Haupt) the IEEE Aerospace Conference's Junior Science and Engineering Conference. This conference is for participants in grades K-12 to give technical presentations on a science or engineering topic of their choice. She also organized USU Girl Scouts in Engineering Day for several years, where Girl Scouts are invited to USU to earn a badge in a day through attending workshops on various aspects of engineering. In 2003, she was awarded a Society of Women Engineers ExxonMobile Development grant to expand this program into a tiered mentoring project that combined the talents of professional women engineers, univerity students, and Girl Scouts in a program for middle and high school Girl Scouts run by the USU Student Section of the Society of Women Engineers. Now she serves on the SWE Program Development Grant Committee to award new grants to other organizations interested in enhancing the opportunities for women in engineering. As part of that committee, she is responsible for a regular column in SWE Magazine about the Program Development Projects.