An Integrated Approach to Engineering Education in a Minority Community

An outreach computer network of minority schools was created in northeastern New Mexico with NASA funding. These schools have gained electronic access to each other, to computer resources, to technical help at New Mexico Highlands University and have gained access to the world via the Internet. An outreach program was initiated in the fall of 1992 in an effort to attract and to involve minority students in Engineering and the related sciences. To date, we have installed 56 Kbs Internet connections to eight elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools, a public library (servicing the home schooling community) and two preparatory schools. For another fourteen rural schools, we provided computers and free dial-up service to servers on the NMHU campus.