Teaching Engineering With the Three R’s Would Boost U.S. Student Output, Study Says

Description:
Teaching engineering in K-12 grades would not only boost interest in the profession and in technical careers in general, but also would improve all students’ problem-solving, systems-thinking and teamwork skills, says the National Academy of Engineering in a Sept. 8 report. Even so, very few U.S. schools now include the discipline or have enough trained faculty to teach it. Says NAE: “Engineering might be called the missing letter in STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] education.”

SUBSCRIBER LOGIN User Name: Password: Forgot your password?

Monthly Subscription: Access all articles published on ENR.com for only $9.95/Month. Annual Subscription: Get ENR magazine for one year and access to all articles published on ENR.com, along with ENR daily news alerts and weekly newsletters for only $82/Year.