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SAE FOUNDATION
fundamentals, but many of them didn't have
the soft skills-being able to work in teams
and being able to think when an odd
problem was sent their way."
SAE's Pre-K-8 AWIM focuses on
developing students to enhance important
21st-century skills such as communication,
collaboration, and critical thinking.
"The end goal isn't to just get a degree or
get them in school," said Kettner. "It's really
to map the pathway to their first real job."
He added that the main reason he
volunteers in AWIM classrooms is for the
students and teachers.
"The students clearly enjoy the hands-on
projects and the practical learning. But just as
important are the benefits for the teachers,"
he explained. "Many K-12 schools are
struggling today with budgets, to challenge
and stretch students and to provide variety to
an often basic and rudimentary curriculum. In
each of our experiences, the teachers have
been so appreciative and really look forward
to the AWIM days."
Kettner said AWIM's particular model,
providing curriculum and volunteers from
industry directly into the classroom, helps
address the constant challenge of funding.
"We have a number of folks who are more
than willing and capable to engage on a
volunteer basis, and that's why it's been so
popular here."
He recalls volunteering with the Pinball
Designers Challenge. Students get hands-on

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experience with the concepts of gravity,
potential and kinetic energy, and inclined
planes by working in teams to build, test, and
modify a non-electronic pinball machine.
"It's fun with the second-grade class ... to
see creativity and different trials," Kettner
said. "Thinking through a bunch of what-ifs
and problem-solving is a tremendous skill
that helps one develop into an engineer, a
manager of engineers, and director of
groups of technical people."
And it makes an impact in the STEM gap.
Administered by teachers and assisted by
industry volunteers, AWIM brings science,
technology, engineering, and math education
to life for pre-K-8 students. Kettner is one of
more than 30,000 volunteers who've reached
more than six million students since 1990. The
SAE Foundation provides teachers with
professional development to confidently
guide students through STEM fundamentals,
with challenges for a variety of different ages.
"Problem-based projects help give them
that context and ability to take it further,"
said Kettner. "When they're first exposed to
math and science, it's hard, it's not intuitive.
Then they get frustrated and say it's not for
me, maybe I'll go do something else. By
making it more fun, understandable, and
practical, we can carry it further."

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of SAE Update - April 2020

SAE Update - April 2020
RTCA and SAE establish a relationship
SAE and GM launch second edition of AutoDrive Challenge
Synergies envisioned in SAE acquisition of SMi Group
PROPEL: All about volunteerism
Women with impact!
DOSSIER: Jennifer Bastiaan, Ph.D., of Kettering University
Farewells
What’s happening in the Member Connection
Are you prepared?
SAE champion from MTU named winner of Rumbaugh Award
Deadline looming for Franz F. Pischinger Powertrain Innovation Award
SAE publishes standard for bus EV charging
Become the manager you’ve aspired to be
Northrop Grumman site director helps close the STEM gap
Classified advertising
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SAE Update - April 2020 - 1
SAE Update - April 2020 - RTCA and SAE establish a relationship
SAE Update - April 2020 - 3
SAE Update - April 2020 - SAE and GM launch second edition of AutoDrive Challenge
SAE Update - April 2020 - 5
SAE Update - April 2020 - Synergies envisioned in SAE acquisition of SMi Group
SAE Update - April 2020 - 7
SAE Update - April 2020 - PROPEL: All about volunteerism
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SAE Update - April 2020 - Women with impact!
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SAE Update - April 2020 - DOSSIER: Jennifer Bastiaan, Ph.D., of Kettering University
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SAE Update - April 2020 - Farewells
SAE Update - April 2020 - What’s happening in the Member Connection
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SAE Update - April 2020 - Are you prepared?
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SAE Update - April 2020 - SAE champion from MTU named winner of Rumbaugh Award
SAE Update - April 2020 - Deadline looming for Franz F. Pischinger Powertrain Innovation Award
SAE Update - April 2020 - SAE publishes standard for bus EV charging
SAE Update - April 2020 - Become the manager you’ve aspired to be
SAE Update - April 2020 - Northrop Grumman site director helps close the STEM gap
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SAE Update - April 2020 - Classified advertising
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