Salvadori Center

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Using the urban landscape of buildings, tunnels, and bridges, the Salvadori Center introduces teachers to the wonder, beauty, and logic of architecture and engineering, who then share it with their students.

We provide professional development for teachers and project-based learning experiences for students to master the mathematics, science, art, language, social studies, and technology embedded in our built environment.

On Leonisa's Mind

Design like you mean it, kids!

Design competitions and charrettes are regular occurrences for architects, urban planners, engineers, and other design professionals. Creating something with a team in a finite time period to solve a challenge is a right of passage that begins in university and continues throughout the career trajectory.

Having Fun With The National Science Foundation

One of the best parts of my job is spending time with other educators and thinkers: sharing best practices, exchanging ideas, developing collaborations. I recently spent nine days on the road doing National Science Foundation (NSF) related work.

Engineering Equals Better Science Education

For 17 years I've been a science educator and yet I am still amazed by how poorly science is done in many schools. Of special note, is the real lack of Engineering in K-12 education, as reported recently by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council. According to their research, engineering is the "neglected E of STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Math]. The report also points out the limited amount of teacher education in engineering.

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