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Keystone Program
Keystone brings beginning engineers an enhanced educational experience, reinforces and recognizes outstanding teaching, and serves a national model for increasing engineering student retention and graduation rates.
Read this story about the inception of KeystoneThe Keystone Program encourages the school's best faculty members to teach our most fundamental courses. Faculty members are selected from throughout the school, given renewable three-year appointments with a base salary increase and discretionary funds to support their activities, and are assisted by additional support personnel. Courses are closely reviewed to achieve academic excellence and high student interest.
Our Mission
- Ensure fundamental engineering courses are taught by caring, enthusiastic, and effective faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and undergraduate teaching fellows.
- Support, motivate, and inspire students to learn and succeed in their engineering programs.
- Explore, develop, and share best practices in engineering education to advance student outcomes.
- Engage students with team-based opportunities to demonstrate learning, foster collaboration, and generate excitement.
- Equip students with the tools, resources, and spaces needed to enhance their learning experiences and build community with Clark School faculty, staff, and students.
Contact Information
4356 Stadium Drive Phone
2108 J.M. Patterson Building 301-405-6845
Building #083 x5-6845 (on-campus)
University of Maryland Email
College Park, MD 20742 keystone@umd.edu
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