Due to a loss in funding, CESRET ceased operations on June 30, 2010

The primary aim of CESRET is to provide New York metropolitan area middle and high school science teachers with sustained hands-on experience in engineering research so they can better understand the practice of science, better transmit to their students and fellow teachers a feeling for its practice.  The program serves four major purposes:

• ENGINEERING CONTENT

  Teachers participate in an informal seminar on a topic of broad general interest led by Columbia faculty or a speaker from another of New York’s science-rich institutions

• SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

  Teachers describe their research to one another at regularly scheduled oral presentations or poster sessions

• SCIENCE TEACHING

  Teachers discuss common problems and exchange ideas on what works in the classroom

• PEER COACHING

  Second-year participants provide guidance to their first-year colleagues.

CESRET was founded in 2006 by Christian Meyer, Professor of Civil Engineering in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Program is administered on a daily basis by Jay Dubner, Program Coordinator.