New Mexico State University Bridges for Engineering Education

有效的教学和学习的需要反映在国家教育实践文献和最近修订的工程学校认证标准-工程标准2000 -最近由工程和技术认证委员会实施。工程标准2000（EC 2000）一直是工程教育改革的催化剂，提供了一个机会，以提高工程课程的教学效果。 NMSU桥梁工程教育（NMSU BEE）计划，建议通过旨在吸引学生进入工程专业的高度一致的多层次课程，将这种对工程教育中有效教学的重视扩展到大学预科水平，从中学开始，并确保他们在学术上做好准备，在大学工程课程中取得成功。充分实施根据这一规划赠款制定的干预措施和战略，将为当地初中和高中学生提供重要机会，使他们在大学预科教育的早期就取得更大的教育成功，从而增加他们顺利和成功过渡到工程本科学位课程的NMSU学院的机会。通过初中和高中教师和NMSU教师的共同努力，从工程，教育和认知科学，目标是建立一个强大的组织结构，以专业发展框架为基础，该框架：1）支持教师和学生通过专业发展活动和工程专业课程单元探索和理解K-12教育中的工程内容，2）以符合新的ABET标准的方式改进本科工程教育中的教学法，并将写作学习方法和当前的学习和认知理论结合起来，3）以有意义的方式将ABET标准的应用和响应扩展到初中和高中水平; 4）收集了丰富的数据，可以有效地为所有三个级别的课程修订做出贡献;以及5）产生了对项目的许多利益相关者负责的响应性评估方法。

The need for effective teaching and learning is reflected in the national literature on education practices and in the recently revised accreditation criteria for schools of engineering - Engineering Criteria 2000 - recently implemented by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) has been a catalyst for reform in engineering education, providing an opportunity to increase effectiveness of teaching and learning within the engineering curriculum. The NMSU Bridges for Engineering Education (NMSU BEE) program, proposes to extend this emphasis on effective teaching and learning within engineering education to the pre-college level through a strongly aligned multi-level curriculum designed to attract students to the engineering profession, beginning at the middle school level, and ensure that they are academically prepared to be successful in university engineering programs. Full implementation of the interventions and strategies developed under this planning grant would provide important opportunities to local middle and high school students for enhancing their educational success early on in their pre-college schooling, thereby increasing their chances for a smooth and successful transition into the NMSU College of Engineering undergraduate degree programs.Through this collaborative effort of middle and high school teachers and NMSU faculty from engineering, education, and the cognitive sciences, the goals are to develop a strong organizational structure grounded in a professional development framework that: 1) supports teachers and students in exploring and understanding engineering content in K-12 education through professional development activities and engineering-specific curriculum units, 2) improves the pedagogy in undergraduate engineering education in a manner that is responsive to the new ABET criteria and which incorporates writing-to-learn approaches and current theories of learning and cognition, 3) extends the application of and response to the ABET criteria in meaningful ways to the middle and high school levels; 4) results in a rich collection of data that can effectively contribute to curriculum revisions at all three levels; and 5) produces a responsive evaluation methodology that is accountable to the project's many stakeholders.