Power to the people: how electrical engineering can empower the Navajo Nation

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 engineering.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource introduces the work of Dr Peter Romine, an electrical engineer who has established a graduate programme at Navajo Technical University. This will train Navajo students to become electrical engineering faculty who can inspire the next generation of Navajo engineers.

• This resource also contains an interview with electrical engineering students at Navajo Technical University and offers an insight into careers in electrical engineering. If your students have questions for the team, they can send them online through the Futurum Careers website.

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the role of electrical engineering for the Navajo Nation and challenges them to consider how they could benefit from studying electrical engineering.

This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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