CAL STATE L.A. SELECTED TO RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS
HP INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION GRANT
$260,000 grant aims to improve student interest and
achievement in
Los Angeles, CA, July 13, 2009
– California State University, Los Angeles was selected as one of
10 two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States to
receive a highly competitive 2009
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Innovations in
Education grant,
which is designed to address the need for more students to pursue and
complete high-quality, high-tech undergraduate degree programs in
engineering, computer science, information systems, and information
technology.
Cal State L.A. will receive an HP Innovations in Education award package
of HP technology, cash, and professional services valued at more than
$260,000.
Committed to
attracting and retaining students from traditionally-underrepresented
communities in engineering and computing fields, Cal State L.A. will
establish an HP Collaborative Learning Center (CLC) that provides
a multi-functional infrastructure in order to expose CSULA students to a
more active and student-centered learning experience; to create
cross-disciplinary design/research experience for undergraduates; to
bring fun and inspiring engineering activities to high school/middle
school classrooms; and to build a long-lasting leadership that changes
the teaching pedagogy in engineering education community.
The HP-CLC will
include an HP blade server to provide remote lab access, a dedicated HP
mobile classroom to facilitate collaborative project-based and
inquiry-based learning, as well as lab space to host hands-on
project/research activities.
According to Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Jane Dong,
the HP project team leader at Cal State L.A., “The University is
enthusiastically committed to supporting this project in all respects as
it is clearly consistent with the University’s mission and strategic
plan to continue to develop and enhance student learning, to provide
excellence in curriculum and instruction, and to expand the use of
wireless technology for teaching and learning.”
Other CSULA project participants include Keith Moo-Young, dean of the
College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology; Peter Quan,
vice president and chief technology officer; Nancy Warter-Perez,
professor of electrical and computer engineering; Deborah Won, assistant
professor of biomedical engineering; Huiping Guo, assistant professor of
computer science; Jiang Guo, associate professor of computer science;
and Mauricio Castillo, assistant professor of technology education.
Worldwide, HP is investing more than $20 million in mobile technology,
cash and professional development as part of the global 2009 HP
Innovations in Education grant initiative. This initiative follows HP’s
five-year, $60M investment in HP Technology for Teaching grants to more
than 1,000 schools and universities in 41 countries. During the past 20
years, HP has contributed more than $1 billion in cash and equipment to
schools, universities, community organizations and other nonprofit
organizations around the world.
“Innovation is key to expanding education opportunity – and HP is
privileged to collaborate with educators around the world who are
committed to exploring the exciting possibilities that exist at the
intersection of teaching, learning, and technology,” said Jim Vanides,
worldwide program manager for HP Global Social Investments. “Emerging
evidence from the last five years is very positive – excellent
instruction combined with the right technologies is measurably improving
student academic success.”
More information about the 2009 HP Innovations in Education initiative
and other global social investments is available at
www.hp.com/go/grants.
More information about Cal State L.A. is available at
www.calstatela.edu.
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As one of six colleges at Cal State L.A., the College of Engineering,
Computer Science, and Technology is divided into five
departments––the Department of Civil Engineering; the Department of
Computer Science; the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering;
the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and the Department of
Technology. The College fosters a unique study environment where faculty
and staff are pledged to the success of students; an environment where
the average class doesn’t exceed 30 students and professors know their
students by name, not number. Committed to study programs that educate
through theory, practice and experiment, Cal State L.A. graduates highly
skilled engineers, computer scientists and technologists who are
prepared to face the rapidly changing demands of industry, business,
education, and government. The College offers a hands-on curriculum and
early research opportunities to prepare students for advanced studies
and a fast-paced work environment. The NASA University Research Center
is the first and only one of its kind in California.
www.calstatela.edu/academic/ecst/
Working for California since 1947: The 175-acre hilltop campus of
California State University, Los Angeles is at the heart of a major
metropolitan city, just five miles from Los Angeles’ civic and cultural
center. More than 20,000 students and 210,000 alumni—with a wide variety
of interests, ages and backgrounds—reflect the city’s dynamic mix of
populations. Six Colleges offer nationally recognized science, arts,
business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education and
humanities programs, among others, led by an award-winning faculty. Cal
State L.A. is home to the critically-acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra
and to a unique university center for gifted students as young as 12.
Programs that provide exciting enrichment opportunities to students and
community include an NEH- and Rockefeller-supported humanities center; a
NASA-funded center for space research; and a growing forensic science
program, housed in the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center.
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