ESC 555 - Engineering Design Process for K-12 Educators

This course will provide students an opportunity to learn insights about engineering concepts and practices while focusing on their implications for K-12 learning settings. These learning settings can be formal classrooms and informal learning environments such as museums, science, technology, or innovation centers. While deepening our understanding of integrating engineering to K-12 learning settings, we will utilize successful engineering activities to look at how teachers and students can engage in Engineering Design Process (EDP), We will question how teachers and K-12 students conceptualize engineering and the role of engineers and how K-12 students construct engineering identities while engaged in EDP. Finally, this course will draw from nations policy documents to discuss how understanding of EDP can enhance K-12 students’ learning of other STEM subject areas of science, mathematics, and technology.

Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of instructor

Credits: 3