Preparing Engineers to Educate Now

塔夫茨大学诺伊斯能力建设项目旨在支持塔夫茨大学新设立的教学工程硕士项目，该项目将工程师培养为5-12年级的工程教师。项目团队由来自机械工程、计算机科学和教育的教师组成，他们认识到需要一个多方面的方法：1 .吸引和招聘工程专业本科生和执业专业人员成为工程教师；2 .与当地学校和工程教师建立合作关系，担任M.A.T.工程考生的合作教师；通过创新的课程作业、工程学院顾问和其他项目支持，有效地为工程专业考生准备M.A.T.。该方法包括新的课程开发，工程学院与教育学院合作，将教育主题和思想纳入研究生水平的工程内容课程，并与所有利益相关者（本科工程专业学生、M.A.T.候选人和毕业生、在职教师以及工程和教育学院）一起进行全年规划。该项目的智力价值取决于准备工程师和K-12工程教师的开创性努力。将工程融入K-12课堂已经成为一种流行的概念，而“培养工程师接受教育”项目希望解决一个主要障碍，使这一目标更广泛地实现，培养高素质的工程教师。塔夫茨大学及其毕业生所服务的社区将受到更广泛的影响，但其目标是通过评估项目（包括衡量招聘策略、合作策略和发展教师知识和实践的课程的有效性）向其他机构提供信息。

The Tufts University Noyce capacity building project aims to bolster Tufts' newly instituted Master of Arts in Teaching Engineering program that prepares engineers as grades 5-12 engineering teachers. The project team composed of faculty from Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Education recognizes the need for a multi-faceted approach:1. Attract and recruit engineering undergraduates and practicing professionals to become engineering teachers, 2. Build partnerships with local schools and engineering teachers to serve as M.A.T. in Engineering candidates cooperating teachers, and 3. Effectively prepare M.A.T. in Engineering candidates through innovative coursework, engineering faculty advisors, and other programmatic supports.The approach includes new course development where engineering faculty work with education faculty to incorporate education themes and ideas in graduate level engineering content courses and year-round programming with all stakeholders (undergraduate engineering students, M.A.T. candidates and graduates, cooperating in-service teachers, and engineering and education faculty). The intellectual merit of the project rests upon the pioneering endeavor of preparing engineers and K-12 engineering teachers. Integrating engineering into the K-12 classroom has become a popular notion and the Prepare Engineers to Educate Now project looks to address one of the major hurdles in making this happen more broadly creating highly qualified engineering teachers. The broader impacts rest on the communities served by Tufts and its graduates, but the goal is to inform other institutions through the evaluation of the project includes measuring the effectiveness of recruiting strategies, partnership strategies, and courses in developing teachers' knowledge and practices.