Exploring an Advanced Placement~® (AP~®) Course of Study in Engineering

摘要

Leigh Abts is a research associate professor of the College of Education and an affiliate research professor of the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Abts has been the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on several National Science Foundation (NSF) awards that have provided funding to explore the feasibility and the potential for an Advanced Placement~® (AP~®) course of study in engineering. The research into the possibility of an AP in engineering that involved individuals and institutions (including ITEA) from across the United States began in February of 2004. The team referred to by Dr. Abts in this interview is the group that assembled at NAE under the organizational name of Strategies for Engineering Education K-16 (SEEK-16). Dr. Abts recently described and summarized the motivations, results, and next steps from a research Pre-AP~® in engineering project.