Partnership, Pathway, and Pipeline for Engineering Education: Engaging Middle School Students with Curricular Integration and Societal Relevance

这个探索性项目将提供有效的机制，通过在高等教育、K-12和社区合作伙伴之间建立可持续的联系，发展由工程教师和K-12教育者组成的专业学习社区（plc），通过实践社区服务学习项目，激励和吸引中学生参与工程实践。创造适当的教育途径，将STEM与社会研究和语言艺术相结合。大学-学区-社区的合作关系是拟议项目的核心。提议的？工程教育的伙伴关系、途径和管道：让中学生参与课程整合和社会关联？将由亚利桑那州立大学工程学院院长和CUSD院长领导。该项目将利用和扩大亚利桑那州立大学和CUSD的资源，并将项目成果纳入两所机构的战略计划和组织使命中。这个项目的核心是确定工程服务学习项目，促进科学、数学、社会研究和语言艺术的综合学习。这些基于stem的综合活动旨在吸引学生并吸引他们的兴趣，同时通过解决当地社区的现实需求来提高解决问题和创业技能。该项目的总体目标是提高亚利桑那州学生在他们形成的中学阶段对工程机会和教育途径的认识，动机和自我认知，从而导致成功的工程职业生涯。通过这样做，亚利桑那州将有一个更加融入社会的全面和有效的教育管道，将提供所需的亚利桑那州工程劳动力，在全球竞争激烈的高科技经济中竞争。该项目将在机构和社区之间建立可持续的合作伙伴关系，以改善和多样化K-12管道，使其进入工程和技术领域。

This exploratory project will provide effective mechanisms to motivate and engage middle school students in the practice of engineering through hands-on community-based service learning projects by establishing sustainable linkages between higher education, K-12, and community partners, developing professional learning communities (PLCs) comprised of engineering faculty and K-12 educators, and creating appropriately aligned educational pathways that integrates STEM with social studies and language arts. The university- school district- community partnership is at the heart of the proposed project.The proposed ?Partnership, Pathway and Pipeline for Engineering Education: Engaging Middle School Students with Curricular Integration and Societal Relevance? will be led by the Dean of Engineering at ASU and the superintendent of CUSD. The project will leverage and scale the resources of both ASU and CUSD and allow project outcomes to be incorporated into the strategic plans and organizational missions of both institutions. Central to this project is the identification of engineering service learning projects that facilitate integrated learning of science, math, social studies and language arts. These STEM-based integrated activities are designed to engage students and captivate their interest while promoting problem-solving and entrepreneurial skills by addressing a real world needs in their local communities. The overall goal of this project is to increase the awareness, motivation and self-perception of Arizona students in their formative middle school years to engineering opportunities and educational pathways that lead to successful engineering careers. In doing so, the State of Arizona will have in place a more socially-embedded comprehensive and effective educational pipeline that will provide the needed Arizona engineering workforce to compete in a global competitive high technology economy. This project will result in a sustainable partnership across institutions and communities to improve and diversify the K-12 pipeline into engineering and technology.