Wright State education model expands to high schools

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An education model aimed at increasing the number of students in engineering professions is expanding from Wright State University to area schools.

The university’s College of Engineering and Computer Science has been developing a curriculum over the past decade, which it has termed the Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics. The concept, championed by Dean Nathan Klingbeil, has pushed a format that helps students through critical early math classes that are often a bottleneck for graduates.

The idea has doubled the graduation rate of the school’s engineers, from 24 percent to 56 percent. Wright State has about 500 students in engineering degrees.

Read the article from the Dayton Business Journal.