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UTeachEngineering
Changing backgrounds of engineering freshmen Overview of Texas program Progress to date Plans for the coming year and interaction with CACHE
Preparing Secondary Teachers to Deliver Design-Based Engineering Courses
Impacts of high school engineering on engineering freshmen More than 3000 high schools are delivering the most widely
used program – Project Lead the Way High school engineering is growing rapidly and within the
next few years more than 100,000 students will be graduating each year having had a high school engineering experience
US Colleges of engineering graduate approximately 75,000 graduates per year
How should high school programs be designed to lead into university engineering programs, particularly freshman programs?
Unique experiment underway in Texas 4 x 4 Math and Science Requirement A consistent high school curriculum will be
developed over the next several years; estimated enrollments of 25,000 students per year
Need curriculum Need teachers
UTeachEngineering’s First 5 Years $12.5 million partnership grant from NSF 650 teachers across Texas and beyond
570 current science and math teachers prepared to teach high school engineering
80 new teachers prepared to teach STEM A model for preparing secondary engineering
educators and designing high school curricula
UTeachEngineering Program for Pre-Service Teachers
Teaching certification for undergraduates in engineering and the sciences
Begins Fall 2009 Programs for In-Service Teachers
Summer Institutes Masters Programs Began Summer 2009
Programs for In-Service Teachers
Engineering Summer Institutes for Teachers
Master of Arts in Science and Engineering Education
Engineering Summer Institutes for Teachers (ESIT) Rapid path (one summer) for in-service teachers Two courses over six weeks will lead teachers to
experience and understand engineering Online resources support teachers during the year Dissemination at five universities statewide
UT Dallas and UT El Paso offered ESIT in summer 2009 Other schools to join beginning in 2010
More than 50 teachers participated in summer 2009 in Austin, Dallas and El Paso
Each teacher will contribute a lesson plan to an on-line library
Programs for In-Service Teachers
Engineering Summer Institutes for Teachers
Master of Arts in Science and Engineering Education
Master of Arts in Science and Engineering Education (MASEE) Developing master teachers in secondary
engineering education Longer path, greater depth
Three summers at UT (nine weeks each) Two academic years of online study
Online resources support teachers during the year Each MA candidate completes an engineering
project and has opportunities for extensive lesson plan development
UTeachEngineering
Changing backgrounds of engineering freshmen Overview of Texas program Progress to date Plans for the coming year and proposed interaction
with CACHE/AIChE
Plans for coming year and interaction with CACHE Model year-long curriculum to be developed for
Austin ISD then deployed in all high schools of the district in 2010-2011 (~10,000 high school graduates per year) – multiple 6-9 week segments - what should be the chemical engineering component?
Create working group to review draft material
Lesson plans currently under development allow for detailed lesson plan development. What chemical engineering modules could be developed?
Identify faculty willing to interact with teachers