CACHE and Freshman/High School Engineering

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

A Unique Partnership

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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

Summary and Discussion

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