The Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative: Teaching Engineering in the Middle Schools

提案编号：0230609主要赞助人：理查兹，拉里机构名称：弗吉尼亚大学主校区标题：弗吉尼亚中学工程教育倡议：中学工程教学NSF接收日期：06/04/2002摘要该奖项将开发工程教学材料，强调中学教师的设计。这建立在一个长期的多学科项目的第一阶段：弗吉尼亚州中学工程教育计划（VMSEEI）。 这将把选定的工程概念和程序注入到已有的科学和数学课程中。工程学校需要开发吸引和留住学生的方法。中学是我们开始失去潜在学生的时候。在这些年级，他们做出选择，要么打开或关闭大门，以先进的科学和数学。如果我们从中学开始，我们可以让学生了解工程，并激励他们追求在工程项目中取得成功所需的科学和数学。跨学科的教师团队已经到位，工程专业的学生，教育研究生和优秀的当地科学教师也是如此。正在从当地（夏洛茨维尔\Albemarle）和地区（弗吉尼亚州中部）学校招聘更多的中学教师，弗吉尼亚大学咖喱教育学院的培训教师将参加这一项目。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230609PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Richards, LarryINSTITUTION NAME: University of Virginia Main CampusTITLE: The Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative: Teaching Engineering in the Middle SchoolsNSF RECEIVED DATE: 06/04/2002AbstractThe award will develop engineering teaching materials which emphasize design for teachersin middle schools. This builds upon the first stage of a long-term multidisciplinary project: the Virginia Middle Schools Engineering Education Initiative (VMSEEI). This will infuse selected engineering concepts and procedures into the context of preexisting science and mathematics classes.Engineering schools need to develop ways to attract and retain students. Middleschool is when we start to lose potential students. In these grades, they make choices thateither open or close the doors to advanced science and mathematics. If we start in middleschools, we can make students aware of engineering, and motivate them to pursue thescience and mathematics they need to succeed in engineering programs.The interdisciplinary faculty team is in place, as are engineering students, educationgraduate students and exceptional local science teachers. Additional middle school teachers are being recruited from local (Charlottesville\Albemarle) and regional (Central Virginia) schools, and teachers-in-training at the Curry School of Education at UVa will participate in this project.