Presentation Overview
 What is engineering? Form or function?
 Overview
 Texas Pilot and Early Results
 Pilot Phase Two and Beyond

Presentation Overview
 What is engineering? Form or function?
 Overview
 Texas Pilot and Early Results
 Pilot Phase Two and Beyond

Presentation Overview
 What is engineering? Form or function?
 Overview
 Texas Pilot and Early Results
 Pilot Phase Two and Beyond

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Engages students in authentic engineering practices
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Project-based environment
80% hands-on activity
20% documenting and reflecting on work, preparing presentations and reports, participating in direct instruction
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Student learning scaffolded over six design challenges
Standardized engineering design process
 Requires purposeful application of engineering principles and relevant science and math concepts
Aligned with Texas state standards and emerging
Next Generation Science Standards

Student
Learning
Outcomes

Engineering
Design
Process

Unit 1: What Is Engineering? & Class Norms
Engineers rely on teamwork and communication.
Documentation
Collaboration

Unit 2: The Evolution of Imagery
Engineers design products to satisfy customer wants and needs.
The engineering design process
New design
Design evolution
Analyzing/interpreting requirements
Concept generation
Design embodiment
Performance verification
Engineering notebooks

Unit 3: Green Energy for Clean Water
Engineers improve lives.
Design modification
Appropriate instrumentation and experimentation
Data acquisition, analysis and representation
Engineering standards and regulations

Unit 4: Aerial Imaging
Engineers work in teams to solve complex design challenges.
Systems thinking
Design at the subsystem level
Complex teams
Project management
Concept selection
Risk analysis
Ethics and safety

Unit 5: The Search for Lunar Ice
Engineering opens frontiers.
Automation and control
Programming basics
Operations planning
Greatest engineering achievements

Unit 6: Reverse Engineer Your World
Engineering impacts our everyday lives.
Reverse engineering and redesign
Functional modeling
Gathering/analyzing customer needs
Information gathering
Grand challenges for engineering
Safety and legal aspects

Unit 7: Culminating Design Challenge
Engineers in all disciplines solve open-ended design challenges.
More complex, less structured unit
Student-directed design process
Includes all engineering critical aspects
Focuses on STEM professions
Emphasizes project management skills

Presentation Overview
 What is engineering? Form or function?
 Overview
 Texas Pilot and Early Results
 Pilot Phase Two and Beyond

90 000
80 000
70 000
60 000
50 000
40 000
30 000
20 000
10 000
0
Not Economically
Disadvantaged
Economically
Disadvantaged
Austin ISD
84,245 students
(63.5 % ED)
Dripping Springs ISD
4,311 students
(13.2 % ED)
Plano ISD
54,683 students
(23.6 % ED)
Round Rock ISD
42,777 students
(28.7 % ED)
School of Excellence in Education
2085 students
(78.9 % ED)

3 000
2 500
2 000
1 500
Not
Economically
Disadvantaged
Economically
Disadvantaged
1 000
500
0
Bowie HS
2,805 students
(12.7 % ED)
Crockett HS
1,732 students
(61.1 % ED)
McCallum HS
1,751 students
(38.7 % ED)
Reagan HS
866 students
(88.3 % ED)
Dripping Springs
HS 1,235 students
(8.3 % ED)
Plano HS
2,664 students
(11 % ED)
Stony Point HS
2,535 students
(33.8 % ED)
Milton B Lee
Academy of
Science
216 students
(78.7 % ED)

Campus (Rating)
Bowie HS (R)
Crockett HS (A)
McCallum HS (A)
Reagan HS (A)
# Sections
Offered
1
# Students in
2011-12 Pilot
Course
Other Courses
Taught
Years Teaching
Experience
24 Physics 20
1
1
1
9
10
7
Dripping Springs HS (R)
Plano HS (R)
Stony Point HS (A)
1 22
4
(2 teachers)
> 120
2 60
Physics
CAD
Physics
Statistics
Physics
Physics
15
10
4
10
5 and 2
16
Engineering
Degree or
Experience
No
No
No
No

Early Results from 2011-12 Pilot
 Teachers struggled to complete the course in their first year (to be expected)
 Need to establish classroom norms early in the course
 Need to modify and strengthen scaffolding
 What do you want to know?
Q&A with a pilot teacher

Presentation Overview
 What is engineering? Form or function?
 Overview
 Texas Pilot and Early Results
 Pilot Phase Two and Beyond

What’s New in 2012-2013?
 Teacher PD
 Two-week workshop to enhance participants’ engineering  content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge
 Mentorship
 Developing and testing a mentorship model for scale
 Assessments
 Developing validated assessment tools for assessing student artifacts
 Portfolio (AP®) Version
 Piloting portfolio version aligned with current draft AP®  standards

Developing Courseware:
LMS + Virtual Collaboration Tool
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• Mentor/mentor collaboration
• Teacher/mentor collaboration
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• Teacher-student communication
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• Student/student collaboration

Developing Courseware:
LMS + Virtual Collaboration Tool
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For teachers, access to
• Course Materials
• Lesson plans
• Background materials
• Supporting resources
• Ongoing PD
• Refresher videos
• On-time training
• Webinars on practice
• Course Management Tools
• Share resources with students
• Assign, view, assess student work
• Collaboration Tools
• Teacher-to-teacher
• Teacher-to-mentor

Developing Courseware:
LMS + Virtual Collaboration Tool
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For mentors, access to
• Course Materials
• Lesson plans
• Background materials
• Supporting resources
• Teacher PD Materials
• Refresher videos
• On-time training
• Collaboration Tools
• Mentor-to-mentor
• Mentor-to-teacher

Developing Courseware:
LMS + Virtual Collaboration Tool
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For students, access to
• Course Materials
• Background materials and supporting resources shared by teacher
• Assignments
• Virtual Engineering Notebook
• Document work for self
• Submit work to teacher
• Prepare portfolio for AP or admissions
• Collaboration Tools
• Student-to-student
• Student-to-teacher

Presentation Overview
 What is engineering? Form or function?
 Overview
 Texas Pilot and Early Results
 Pilot Phase Two and Beyond