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Engineering Skills through Problem Based Learning

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Miriam Morgan ยป is a tenured engineering teacher with Durham Public Schools in Durham, North Carolina. She teaches Project Lead the Way engineering courses through Duke University at Southern School of Engineering. Miriam has a BBA in Business Administration, MA in Instructional Technology both from North Carolina Central University, Durham NC and a MA in School Administration from University of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. After working in the private sector for many years, Miriam decided to enter into the life of education. Since being in education, Ms. Morgan has been the CTE Department Chair, Teacher of the Year and has received teacher appreciation awards. Miriam just recently became National Board certified in 2009.

In developing the roller coaster project, Miriam worked with a science teacher at North Carolina School of Science and Math developing a project that would capture the works of engineering as well as incorporate the work of physics. They both worked with Nancy Shaw at Duke University to incorporate a modeling program (Autodesk Inventor) to model the parts of the rollercoaster from the designs created by the NCSSM.

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