STEM Education Institute Tuesday Seminar
Engineering the Future: Designing the World of the 21st Century
Julie Brenninkmeyer
Museum of Science, Boston
"Engineering the Future: Designing the World of the 21st Century" is a full-year high school course being developed by the Museum of Science, Boston. Students learn about the role of engineers in society and how they create the human-made world. Students can then examine how everyone is affected by changes in technology and how people influence future technological development by the choices they make as workers, consumers and citizens. The course is intended to help today's high school students understand the ways in which they will engineer the world of the future, whether or not they pursue technical careers. Engineering the Future maps directly to Massachusetts and national standards. It prepares students for the engineering/technology MCAS and provides students with an introduction to key physics concepts.