{"id":20015,"date":"2015-03-14T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2015-03-14T00:08:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T05:08:31","slug":"apsu-engineering-tech-department-working-with-stem-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2015\/03\/14\/apsu-engineering-tech-department-working-with-stem-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU engineering tech department working with STEM classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47306\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/apsu-logo-200x123.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On a gray January afternoon, Ihab Habib, Austin Peay State University associate professor of construction engineering technology, traveled to Nashville to inspect an elaborate waterslide. The slide\u2019s designers\u2014fifth grade students at Croft Middle School\u2014crowded around Habib, eager to explain the intricacies of their project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was exciting for the students to design different slide structures and compete among one another,\u201d Habib said.<!--more-->Last year, the APSU professor and his colleagues made a similar trip to H.G. Hill Middle School in Bellevue to examine a bobsled track built by seventh graders.<\/p>\n<p>With a growing emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) subjects in school curriculums, more teachers are now seeking assistance from APSU\u2019s Engineering Technology Department.<\/p>\n<p>That department, housed at the Austin Peay Center at Fort Campbell, offers associate, bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree programs in engineering technology, and features a state-of-the-art lab designed for rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing. After working with Nashville-area schools, the department\u2019s faculty now hopes to assist local students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Engineering Technology Department extends our invitation to all Clarksville-Montgomery County schools to create projects that we will be happy to work with students on,\u201d Habib said. \u201cWe can assist in judging, and we will be glad to speak to future college students about engineering technology fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also invite middle and high school STEM teachers to arrange trips to our labs and come visit our growing program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To contact the APSU Engineering Technology Department, email <a href=\"mailto:engineeringtech@apsu.edu\">engineeringtech@apsu.edu<\/a>, or call 931.221.1470.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; On a gray January afternoon, Ihab Habib, Austin Peay State University associate professor of construction engineering technology, traveled to Nashville to inspect an elaborate waterslide. 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