Integrating engineering into secondary math and science curricula: A course for preparing teachers

Future secondary math and science teachers, engineering education doctoral students and engineering graduate students participated in a graduate level course designed to provide strategies for integrating engineering in stand-alone or integrated environments. A hybrid setting of face-to-face and online instruction modeled project based learning that provided the opportunity for students to apply research based methods of integration and engineering instruction throughout the learning process. Concepts, knowledge and attitudes were assessed using student products, concept maps and student feedback.