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

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校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UTeachEngineering，这是一种创新的、基于设计和挑战的课程，用于培养中等工程学教师。为了满足德克萨斯州对工程教师日益增长的需求，并成为全国工程教育的典范，UTeachEngineering为教师准备提供了以下四条专业发展道路：1.UTeachEngineering科学与工程教育文学硕士(MASEE)；2.工程暑期教师学院(ESIT)；3.物理专业的工程认证路径；4.工程专业的教师准备路径。四个UTeachEngineering途径的关键要素是四个新的工程课程，专注于工程内容和教学：工程和设计基础，工程知识和学习，工程能源系统，以及机械和系统设计。利用这四门课程与UTeach现有的教学课程相结合，UTeachEngineering预计在头五年将有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坚定地植根于当前工程教育领域的研究，并为研究工程学的教与学提供了亟需的机会。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(现任和未来的教师)，以及(3)这些教师的学生。虽然UTeachEngineering的重点目标是培养一支中学教师队伍，但该项目的愿景是所有学生都“支持工程学”，获得设计和交互技能，使他们能够在选择工程学职业生涯时取得成功，同时加强他们作为全球公民的生活和参与，即使他们没有成为工程师。

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.