Mitigating Rural Flight: The Role of a Place-based Engineering Curriculum in Strengthening Community Assets (Traditional Research Paper)

Micaha Dean Hughes, Aaron Arenas, LaTricia Townsend, Tameshia Baldwin · 2024

Summary. A rural engineering education program called DeSIRE partnered schools, universities, and local industries to teach middle school students manufacturing engineering tied to real community jobs in biopharmaceuticals, food processing, and energy. The curriculum strengthened students' and teachers' belief in local STEM career opportunities and their sense of engineering identity. The program demonstrates how community-based education can shift mindsets and potentially reduce rural outmigration by connecting students to fulfilling careers in their own region.

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Hughes, M. D., Arenas, A., Townsend, L., & Baldwin, T.. (2024). Mitigating Rural Flight: The Role of a Place-based Engineering Curriculum in Strengthening Community Assets (Traditional Research Paper). https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--47780

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DOI: 10.18260/1-2--47780
Countries: United States
Regions: North America
Categories: education, entrepreneurship, regional-innovation-systems, general-innovation
Added: 2026-06-01