UTeachEngineering: Training Secondary Teachers to Deliver Design-Based Engineering Instruction

UTeachEngineering：培训中学教师提供基于设计的工程教学

• 批准号: 0831811
• 负责人: David Allen
• 金额: $ 1247.82万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0831811&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UTeachEngineering; Training; Secondary; Teachers; Deliver

The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering is partnering with the successful UTeach Natural Sciences program and the Austin Independent School District to develop and deliver UTeachEngineering, an innovative, design- and challenge-based curriculum for preparing secondary teachers of engineering. To meet the growing need for engineering teachers in Texas, and to serve as a model in engineering education across the nation, UTeachEngineering has the following four professional development pathways to teacher preparedness, two for in-service teachers and two for pre-service teachers: 1. UTeach Master of Arts in Science and Engineering Education (MASEE); 2. Engineering Summer Institutes for Teachers (ESIT); 3. Engineering Certification Track for Physics Majors; and 4. Teacher Preparation Track for Engineering Majors. Key elements of the four UTeachEngineering pathways are four new engineering courses focusing on engineering content and pedagogy: Fundamentals in Engineering and Design, Knowing and Learning in Engineering, Engineering Energy Systems, and Design of Machines and Systems. Leveraging these four courses in combination with existing UTeach pedagogical courses, UTeachEngineering anticipates reaching 650 teachers (80 pre-service and 570 in-service) over the first five years. In the future, it is expected that UTeachEngineering will be sustained as a vital program at the University of Texas at Austin.UTeachEngineering is firmly rooted in current research in the field of engineering education and affords a much-needed opportunity to study the teaching and learning of engineering. During the development phase, UTeachEngineering is examining impacts on three specific groups: (1) Engineers involved in the creation of curricular materials and course design, (2) participants (current and future teachers) enrolled in the engineering courses, and (3) the students of these teachers. While the focused goal of UTeachEngineering is to train a cadre of secondary teachers, the project's vision is that all students are "engineering enabled," acquiring the design and interaction skills that would enable them to be successful in an engineering career should they choose one, while enhancing their lives and participation as global citizens even if they do not become engineers.

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的科克雷尔工程学院正在与成功的UTeach自然科学项目和奥斯汀独立学区合作，开发和提供UTeach工程，这是一个创新的，基于设计和挑战的课程，用于准备工程的中学教师。 为了满足德克萨斯州对工程教师日益增长的需求，并作为全国工程教育的典范，UTeachEngineering有以下四种教师准备的专业发展途径，两种用于在职教师，两种用于职前教师： 1. UTeach科学与工程教育硕士（MASEE）; 2. 教师暑期工程学院; 3. 物理专业工程认证课程;以及 4. 工程专业的教师准备轨道。四个UTeach工程途径的关键要素是四个新的工程课程，侧重于工程内容和教学法：工程和设计基础，工程知识和学习，工程能源系统，以及机器和系统设计。 利用这四门课程与现有的UTeach教学课程相结合，UTeachEngineering预计在前五年将达到650名教师（80名职前教师和570名在职教师）。 在未来，预计UTeachEngineering将继续作为德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的一个重要项目。UTeachEngineering牢牢扎根于工程教育领域的当前研究，并提供了一个急需的机会来研究工程的教学和学习。 在开发阶段，UTeachEngineering正在研究对三个特定群体的影响：（1）参与课程材料和课程设计的工程师，（2）参加工程课程的参与者（当前和未来的教师），以及（3）这些教师的学生。 虽然UTeachEngineering的重点目标是培养一批中学教师，但该项目的愿景是让所有学生都能“启用工程”，获得设计和互动技能，使他们能够在工程职业生涯中取得成功，如果他们选择一个，同时提高他们的生活和参与作为全球公民，即使他们没有成为工程师。