Engineering Design in Middle and Secondary Math & Science Education

提案编号：0230593校长：奈尔，萨蒂机构名称：密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校标题：工程设计在初中数学科学教育摘要有越来越多的共识，需要将技术素养纳入课程ofuture教师。创新的合作是影响这种变化所必需的。密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校（MU）的工程和教育学院将与哥伦比亚学区、一所农村学校、堪萨斯城的一所内城学校、一所社区学院、工程企业和密苏里州中小学教育部建立有意义的合作伙伴关系，以制定增加工程内容的战略，特别关注设计内容，在7-12年级未来数学和科学教师的课程中，使用动手工程范例。该项目还将测试假设，即工程设计是一个理想的领域，为达到服务不足的群体，因为它利用动手活动，学生发现激励，它也显示了连接到就业。拟议的项目将有助于发展基础设施，更深层次和持续的伙伴关系，以工程设计为中心，在中等和中等水平的数学和科学教育，高等教育，工业，以及国家初等和中等教育部。原型资源开发的规划补助金阶段和随后的更大的努力，将madeavailable初中和中学数学和科学教师在整个地区，国家和民族，与期望，他们将利用他们在适当的时候。 从长远来看，这些变化将提高数学和科学的学习成绩，获得有意义的工程设计经验，并增加攻读工程学位课程的大学预科学生的数量。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230593PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Nair, SatishINSTITUTION NAME: University of Missouri-ColumbiaTITLE: Engineering Design in Middle and Secondary Math & Science EducationAbstractThere is increasing consensus for the need to incorporate technological literacy into the curriculum offuture teachers. Innovative collaborations are necessary to affect such a change. The Colleges ofEngineering and Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) will lead a meaningful partnership with the Columbia school district, one rural school, an inner city school in Kansas City, a community college, engineering businesses, and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, to develop a strategy to increase the engineering content, with particular focus on design content, in the curriculum of future mathematics and science teachers in the 7-12 th grades, using hands-on engineering exemplars. The project will also test the hypothesis that engineering design is an ideal domain for reaching under served groups because it utilizes hands-on activities that students find motivating, and it also shows the connection to jobs.The proposed project will help to develop infrastructure for deeper and sustained partnerships,centered on engineering design, among middle and secondary level mathematics and science educators,higher education, industry, and the department of elementary and secondary education of the state. Theprototype resources developed in the planning grant stage and subsequent larger effort, will be madeavailable to middle and secondary mathematics and science teachers throughout the region, the state, andthe nation, with the expectation that they will utilize them whenever appropriate. These changes will, in the long term, lead to improved academic performance in mathematics and science, with meaningful engineering design experience, and to an increase in the number of pre-college students who enroll in engineering degree programs.