Building Bridges Between Education And Engineering Programs: An Example Of A Successful Planning Process

Three Engineering faculty members and three School of Education faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP) have teamed up to introduce engineering fundamentals to pre-service teachers. The philosophy behind this project is that teacher education is the responsibility of the entire university, not simply the School of Education. As such, this project has four goals listed below. The first two goals focus on the pre-service teachers participating in the project and the second two goals are for the faculty involved: