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NSF Launches Pilot for National High School Engineering Course

By SRAI News posted 10-25-2018 12:00 AM

  

Excerpt from "NSF launches pilot for national high school engineering course" posted on NSF News, October 1, 2018.


The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a pilot to prepare a curriculum and teachers across the U.S. for a nationwide pre-college course on engineering principles and design.

The three-year, $4-million  pilot marks an important milestone in the creation of a nationally recognized high school engineering course intended to lead to widely accepted, transferrable credit at the college level.

"NSF plays a vital role in helping to build the nation's future engineering workforce, and a key part of that is enabling more students to have access to undergraduate engineering education," said Dawn Tilbury, NSF's assistant director for Engineering. "A standardized high school engineering course will help remove the mystery and democratize the learning and practice of engineering."

The University of Maryland will lead the pilot in partnership with Arizona State University, Morgan State University and Virginia Tech. In addition, Vanderbilt University will evaluate the curriculum, student learning and teacher training, and NASA Goddard will collaborate on dissemination.

During the pilot, the researchers will refine a curriculum developed by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the College Board. The curriculum will integrate engineering principles and a student design project, and it will align to Next Generation Science Standards for K-12 education, developed by 26 states and other partners.

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