Preparing Engineers to Educate Now

塔夫茨大学诺伊斯能力建设项目旨在支持塔夫茨大学新设立的工程教学硕士课程，该课程为工程师提供5-12年级的工程教师。由机械工程，计算机科学和教育学院组成的项目团队认识到需要多方面的方法：1。吸引和招募工程本科生和实践专业人员成为工程教师，2。与当地学校和工程教师建立合作伙伴关系，担任MAT在工程候选人合作教师，和3。有效地准备M.A.T.该方法包括新的课程开发，工程教师与教育教师合作，将教育主题和想法纳入研究生水平的工程内容课程，并与所有利益相关者（本科工程学生，M.A.T.候选人和毕业生，合作在职教师，工程和教育学院）。 该项目的智力价值取决于准备工程师和K-12工程教师的开拓性奋进。将工程融入K-12课堂已成为一个流行的概念，现在准备工程师教育项目旨在解决更广泛地实现这一目标的主要障碍之一，创造高素质的工程教师。更广泛的影响在于塔夫茨大学及其毕业生所服务的社区，但目标是通过评估该项目，包括衡量招聘战略，伙伴关系战略和课程在发展教师的知识和实践的有效性通知其他机构。

The Tufts University Noyce capacity building project aims to bolster Tufts' newly instituted Master of Arts in Teaching Engineering program that prepares engineers as grades 5-12 engineering teachers. The project team composed of faculty from Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Education recognizes the need for a multi-faceted approach:1. Attract and recruit engineering undergraduates and practicing professionals to become engineering teachers, 2. Build partnerships with local schools and engineering teachers to serve as M.A.T. in Engineering candidates cooperating teachers, and 3. Effectively prepare M.A.T. in Engineering candidates through innovative coursework, engineering faculty advisors, and other programmatic supports.The approach includes new course development where engineering faculty work with education faculty to incorporate education themes and ideas in graduate level engineering content courses and year-round programming with all stakeholders (undergraduate engineering students, M.A.T. candidates and graduates, cooperating in-service teachers, and engineering and education faculty). The intellectual merit of the project rests upon the pioneering endeavor of preparing engineers and K-12 engineering teachers. Integrating engineering into the K-12 classroom has become a popular notion and the Prepare Engineers to Educate Now project looks to address one of the major hurdles in making this happen more broadly creating highly qualified engineering teachers. The broader impacts rest on the communities served by Tufts and its graduates, but the goal is to inform other institutions through the evaluation of the project includes measuring the effectiveness of recruiting strategies, partnership strategies, and courses in developing teachers' knowledge and practices.