STEM Center
Millard Oakley Center for Teaching and Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
The Millard Oakley STEM Center is a campus-wide initiative to support the teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering and mathematics related fields. Success in these subjects requires collaboration and innnovation at all levels - from pre-school through college. The goal is to improve the teaching and learning of these subjects with faculty development, student enrichment, and learning process research.
Special Events
NASA Education Downlink: November 22, 2009
NASA will hold a live interactive Educational Video Downlink from the international Space Station(with Tennessee Tech's Captain Barry "Butch" Wilmore BSEE '85, MSEE '94) to Tennessee Tech University on Sunday, November 22, 11:00 am, originating from the TTU Nursing Auditorium and broadcast live on WCTE, on statewide public television, on TTU's cross-campus closed circuit TV (channel 4), and streaming video at www.nasa.gov and www.wcte.org.
Twenty regional k-12 students and TTU college students were selected via the Soaring Eagle Question Contest to ask their questions of three of NASA's astronauts (Barry Wilmore, Leland Melvin, and Nicole Stott) on the STS-129 mission. An additional 100 students who submitted questions have received invitations to attend the event with a parent.
Update: The STS-129 launched sucessfully on November 16, 2:28 p.m! Representative Bart Gordon will be introducing the students to the astronauts during the downlink.
Ways to View the Downlink:
- For the best coverage of both our Tennessee students and the NASA astronauts, watch WCTE-TV (channel 10 on Charter cable, channel 22 on Dish/Direct/antenna),
- If on campus, watch on the Tennessee Tech campus' closed circuit TV channel 4 in Clement 212 engineering auditorium.
- Elsewhere in Tennessee, watch your local Public Television station (on their 2nd digital channel).
- Watch NASA TV if it is provided by your local cable or dish company.
- From anywhere in the world, you can watch this live video-streamed event on NASA-TV on the web at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv.
- Techies can tune in using their own satellite dishes... satellite AMC-6, 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 5C, 3785.5 MHz, vertical polarization. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) - compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) with modulation of QPSK/DBV, data rate of 6.00 and FEC 3/4 will be needed for reception.
