The estimated audience for the initial broadcast is 17 million. P.E. Along with the National Science Foundation, ASCE will serve as a national sponsor of the series and educational outreach programs, which are produced by PBS member station WGBH Boston. This initiative will target middle school students, especially women and minorities, which are dramatically underrepresented groups in engineering.
Middle school is a critical point at which students make decisions about their academic directions.
WGBH also is building an interactive Web site, and Houghton Mifflin is publishing a companion book. While WGBH Boston and PBS are at the forefront of educational broadcasting, they still look to ASCE's grassroots network of 123,000 members to help bring the educational outreach program to schools, libraries, civic groups and other local venues. Members will work with schools and civic groups starting this fall, and will continue at least through ASCE's anniversary year in 2002. Founded in 1852, ASCE represents more than 123,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America's oldest national engineering society. All rights reserved .