National Center For Engineering And Technology Education

The National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) is a recently funded National Science Foundation Center for Learning and Teaching.This paper provides a broad overview of NCETE activities that will span the five years of the program, consistent with the goals of ASEE's Emerging Trends in Engineering Education session.The long-term goal of NCETE is to understand how to infuse engineering design into technology education in grades 9-12.The paper describes the relationship between engineering and technology education and why NCETE focuses on 9-12 grade technology education as the provider of engineering design concepts.The nine institutions associated with NCETE, the school district partners, and the professional society partners are described.The paper also presents a broad overview of research themes with a description of how these themes will be more sharply focused over the next five years.The paper briefly outlines the doctoral program and the technology teacher program.It concludes by describing some first year goals.