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Welcome to  

Engineering the Future: Science, Technology, and the Design Process

is a full-year course designed

to introduce students to the world of technology and

engineering, as a first step in becoming technologically

Engineering the Future 

literate citizens. Additionally, the course will help

beginning high school students answer the question,

“Why should I study math, science, and engineering

if I don’t plan on a technical career?” Through this

course’s practical real-world connections, students have

an opportunity to see how science, mathematics, and

engineering are part of their everyday world, and why

every  citizen to be technologically and

it is important for 

(ITEA 2000), Benchmarks for Science(AAAS 1993), and National Science Education(NRC, 1996), as well as many state science

frameworks. Major goals of the course, which refl ect

these standards, are as follows:

Goal 1. Students will develop a deep and rich

understanding of the term “technology.”

learn that the technologies we take for granted—TVs

and DVDs, refrigerators and furnaces, the food on our dinner plates, cars and power plants—were

created by people through “the engineering design process.”

Students

Goal 2. Students develop their abilities to use the engineering design process.

Students take on

the role of engineers and apply the engineering design process to define and solve problems by

inventing and improving products, processes, and systems.

Goal 3. Students will understand the complementary relationships between science,

mathematics, technology, and engineering.

By learning about the work of practicing engineers,

students get an “insider’s view” of how engineers apply mathematical skills and scientific

knowledge to solve problems and meet human needs and desires.

Goal 4. Students will understand how advances in technology affect human society, and how

human society determines which new technologies will be developed.

Students learn through a

variety of examples how everyone is affected by changes in technology and how people infl uence

future technological development by the choices they make as workers, consumers, and citizens.