Regional Project: Washington University in St. Louis, Boeing
This partnership of local two- and four-year colleges and regionally based companies addresses growing local workforce needs in information technology. Through a joint public-private undergraduate engineering program with Washington University, the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and community colleges, the project aims to increase the diversity, quality of training, and graduation rates of students prepared to fill high-demand information technology positions in the St. Louis region.
Interventions: bridge program, industry-faculty course redesign, mentored research, team projects