Catalyzing STEM Education via the NAE Engineering Grand Challenges

研究生处于前沿研究的前沿，提供了最好的机会，鼓励年轻人在STEM领域接受教育，创新变革性技术，并成为富有成效的工程师、科学家和教育工作者。该提案将培养一批新的研究生干部，通过国家工程院（NAE）大挑战的背景下，运用他们特殊的工程技能来加强高中生的数学和科学教育，同时说明这些社会问题的全球性质。通过这个过程，研究生研究员将更好地理解和发展他们的研究与这些非常重要的全球社会挑战之间的联系。实现这一目标的策略是开发一种独特的演示模型，以NAE大挑战为例，作为整合和丰富费城学区科学和数学教学的工具，同时嵌入反馈和互动过程，使研究员、教师和学生交流共享经验。高中学生和教师将在与全球技术/科学问题相关的应用和现实世界背景下获得对科学和数学概念的欣赏。与此同时，研究员将通过在课堂环境中直接应用他们的技术/科学专长、与教师互动和指导学生而掌握教学知识。因此，研究生、老师和学生都将“边做边学”。

Graduate students are at the front-end of cutting-edge research and provide the best opportunity to encourage young people to pursue an education in the STEM fields, to innovate transformative technologies, and to and become productive engineers, scientists and educators. This proposal will train a new cadre of graduate students to apply their particular engineering skills to enhance the math and science education of high school students through the context of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges while concurrently illustrating the global nature of these societal issues. Through this process, the graduate Fellows will themselves better understand and develop the linkages between their research and these very significant global societal challenges.The strategy for accomplishing this is the development of a unique presentation model that uses the NAE Grand Challenges as examples and as a vehicle through which to integrate and enrich the teaching of science and mathematics in the School District of Philadelphia while embedding feedback and interactive processes by which the Fellows, Teachers, and students communicate shared experiences. The high school students and Teachers will gain an appreciation for the science and mathematics concepts in an applied, real world context linked to global technical/scientific issues. Concurrently, the Fellows will become knowledgeable in pedagogy through direct application of their technical/scientific expertise in the context of the classroom setting, interaction with the Teacher, and mentoring students. Thus the graduate Fellow, Teacher, and the students will all ?learn-by-doing?.