The USC Viterbi School’s Engineering Writing Program publishes the online magazine Illumin (http://illumin.usc.edu) as an educational resource. Illumin’s mission is to be a “review of engineering in everyday life,” explaining the relevance of engineering practice to common, non-engineering activities. Students and teachers world-wide have used Illumin’s article’s for reports and projects. Specifically, Illumin is:

•Read each month in over 80 countries
•Excerpted in textbooks
•Cited as a source in academic papers and course readers

Illumin was featured in Prism Magazine in 2004 (http://www.prism-magazine.org/april04/oncampus.cfm)

Engineering Writing Program
OHE 106
Los Angeles
CA, 90089-1455
Contact: Stephen Bucher
Grade Level: Middle School, High School
Discipline: Science, Engineering, Technology
Website: http://illumin.usc.edu/

Filed under: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, K-12 Outreach Programs

Tags: Engineering Publications