CIESE website named one of USA TODAY ’s ‘Best Bets’

HOBOKEN, N.J. — An online classroom project, “Historical Treasure Chests,” developed by the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been selected as a “Best Bet” on the USA TODAY Education website for the week of March 3 to March 9, 2006. Each week the USA TODAY Education online staff selects three “Best Bet” sites featuring high quality educational content for its audience of subscribers and guests. Links to these sites are listed on the USA TODAY Education home page for a one-week period and are then archived with a brief description for search purposes.

“Historical Treasure Chests” (www.stevens.edu/ciese/curriculum/treasure/index.html) is an online project aimed at students and teachers of Grades 5-12. It engages students in using Internet-based primary source data, including historical documents such as birth certificates, maps, diaries, photographs, and other artifacts, to help them develop skills of critical analysis, oral and written communication, and use of technology for authentic tasks.

• Fewer than 150 sites are selected each year as USA TODAY Education “Best Bet” websites. To view USA TODAY ’s “Best Bet” picks, visit its website at www.usatoday.com/educate/home.htm.

CIESE is Stevens’s primary K-12 outreach center and offers professional development for teachers in science, technology, pre-engineering, and mathematics for elementary through high school teachers. CIESE’s online classroom projects currently attract participation from more than 100,000 students from 35 countries around the world. For more information about CIESE and its free online curriculum resources, visit www.stevens.edu/ciese.

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 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time 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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