Engineering Design for the Texas Four-by-Four Rich Crawford, Mechanical Engineer Cheryl Farmer, Project Director Todd Head, Physics Teacher.

Engineering Design for the Texas Four-by-Four

Rich Crawford, Mechanical EngineerCheryl Farmer, Project Director

Todd Head, Physics Teacher

Presentation Overview What is engineering? Form or function? Overview

Texas Pilot and Early Results Pilot Phase Two and Beyond





Features Engages students in authentic engineering practices Project-based environment

80% hands-on activity 20% documenting and reflecting on work, preparing

presentations and reports, participating in direct instruction 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

Course Framework

Course Framework

Student Learning

Outcomes

Course Framework

Engineering Design

Process

Unit 1: What Is Engineering? & Class NormsEngineers rely on teamwork and communication.

DocumentationCollaboration

Unit 2: The Evolution of ImageryEngineers design products to satisfy customer wants and needs.

The engineering design processNew designDesign evolutionAnalyzing/interpreting requirementsConcept generationDesign embodimentPerformance verificationEngineering notebooks

Unit 3: Green Energy for Clean WaterEngineers improve lives.

Design modificationAppropriate instrumentation and

experimentationData acquisition, analysis and representationEngineering standards and regulations

Unit 4: Aerial ImagingEngineers work in teams to solve complex design challenges.

Systems thinkingDesign at the subsystem levelComplex teamsProject managementConcept selectionRisk analysisEthics and safety

Unit 5: The Search for Lunar IceEngineering opens frontiers.

Automation and controlProgramming basicsOperations planningGreatest engineering

achievements

Unit 6: Reverse Engineer Your WorldEngineering impacts our everyday lives.

Reverse engineering and redesign

Functional modelingGathering/analyzing

customer needsInformation gatheringGrand challenges for

engineeringSafety and legal aspects

Unit 7: Culminating Design ChallengeEngineers in all disciplines solve open-ended design challenges.

More complex, less structured unitStudent-directed design processIncludes all engineering critical aspectsFocuses on STEM professionsEmphasizes project management skills



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Bowie HS 2,805 students

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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 stu-

dents (8.3 % ED)

Plano HS 2,664 students

(11 % ED)

Stony Point HS 2,535 stu-

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Milton B Lee Academy of Sci-ence 216 students

(78.7 % ED)

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2011-12 Pilot Schools

Campus (Rating) # Sections Offered

# Students in 2011-12 Pilot

CourseOther Courses

TaughtYears Teaching

ExperienceEngineering Degree or

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Bowie HS (R) 1 24 Physics 20 No

Crockett HS (A) 1 9 Physics 15 No

McCallum HS (A) 1 10 CAD 10 No

Reagan HS (A) 1 7 Physics 4

Dripping Springs HS (R) 1 22 Statistics 10

Plano HS (R) 4 (2 teachers) > 120 Physics 5 and 2

Stony Point HS (A) 2 60 Physics 16 No

Pilot Teachers

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



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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T1 T2 … TX

S11 … S1N1S21 … S2N2 … SX1 … SXNX

• Teacher/teacher collaboration

• Teacher-student communication

• Student/student collaboration

• Teacher/mentor collaboration

• Mentor/mentor collaboration

M1 M2 … MX

T1 T2 … TX

S11 … S1N1S21 … S2N2 … SX1 … SXNX

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


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


M1 M2 … MX

T1 T2 … TX

S11 … S1N1S21 … S2N2 … SX1 … SXNX

M1 M2 … MX

T1 T2 … TX

S11 … S1N1S21 … S2N2 … SX1 … SXNX

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




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512-471-6196

www.engineeryourworld.org

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Engineering Design for the Texas Four-by-Four Rich Crawford, Mechanical Engineer Cheryl Farmer, Project Director Todd Head, Physics Teacher.

Documents

engineering safety

reverse engineering

world engineering

safety slide

overview texas pilot

course framework slide

engineering critical

complex design challenges