Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin; Natalie Tran, California State University, Bakersfield; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to complete assignments. Further, much of the projectwork that students are asked to do as they are introduced to engineering as a profession address“soft skills.” For example, they are asked to research engineering careers using interviews or theInternet, and they are asked to research an engineering project in their community.As shown in Table 3, we found low rates of explicit integration of mathematics concepts with theengineering activities. This is perhaps due to the emphasis this course places on these softprojects along with the extensive use of computer software that we see gaps in the explicitintegration of mathematics.Table 3: Percent Explicit Integration in the Introduction to Engineering Design © 2000. Planning