NO MORE STEM! Fluke Supports Automotive Industry's Cry Invention/Innovation Immersion

Jan. 10, 2012 - PRLog -- World history is a history of inventions that changed the world. From the creation of stone tools to today’s microchip, the world's progress can be measured by its inventions. The North American International Auto Show proves Detroit is still a hotbed of invention. Look at the Ford Evos concept  car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXE0etB0QGs It looks like a spaceship on wheels. Automobiles and even the mobile phone were nurtured here. Henry Ford created the moving assembly line in 1913 that ushered the automobile into the foundation of society. The Detroit Police Department began experimentation of one-way vehicular service in 1921. Their experimentation became reality in 1928 when the Detroit Police Department commenced its one-way vehicular service in all its patrol car. It was the first city in the nation to do so launching mobility of communications. The car, as a mobile communication tool, was invented here.

During this history, the Detroit inventive spirit was the norm. New products, profitable companies and wealth abound.   During this same period, there was a common belief that every child had the capability to become an inventor/ innovator, like Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, Madame C J Walker, Thomas Edison, Sarah Mather and Nikola Tesla, to change our world.  Detroit led the country with its inventive spirit. But something happened, its k-12 schools no longer incubated inventions.  School leadership decided it no longer had the responsibility to cater to corporate employment needs. Consequently, innovation and invention has become the sole responsibility of  corporate R &D departments. Yet, everyone  keeps chanting students need more STEAM, - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics.  However, schools have taught Science, Technology, and Mathematics for multiple decades without sparking innovation, invention or engineering. I personally had 9 semesters of science, 8 semesters of mathematics and 4 semesters of technology before high school graduation in 1984. Even with more STEM classes  students to hate science. Their hatred has turned America into the poorest performer amongst industrialized nations in science and mathematics. Students do not need more STEM- Science, Technology, Engineering,  and Mathematics classes -, they need immersion in the invention/innovation design process.  They need  more hands-on multidisciplinary education to promote invention and design. .

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