K-12 STEM Education
The Engineering Education Research Center facilitates collaboration among engineering, education, math, and science faculty to address critical STEM education issues in K-12 education. These interactions have focused on making engineering more visible to K-12 students and teachers, and making mathematics education more relevant to students of diverse interests and cultures.
EERC K-12 STEM education initiatives address important educational challenges and opportunities characteristic to the Pacific Northwest: large distances between rural schools, many non-native speakers of English, and teacher unfamiliarity with engineering. Many schools also have high percentages of Native and/or Mexican American students, often from families unfamiliar with higher education.
Research Projects
CO-TEACH: Produce teachers with strong content knowledge coupled with extensive clinical experience and technology training to prepare effective teachers
Bridges to Engineering Education (BEE): Developing collaboration among engineering and education faculty for cyber-tutoring of middle school math students in applications of engineering to math
Culturally Relevant Engineering Applications in Mathematics (CREAM): Engineering and mathematics graduate students developing and implementing engineering projects that are relevant to diverse middle and high school student cultures
CREAM Fellowships Available
Graduate fellowships are available for engineering or mathematics graduate students at Washington State University who are interested in developing and implementing enginering applications for high school or middles school math classes in diverse cultures. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents.
