Page 11 - Standards for K-12 Engineering Education

Standards for K-12 Engineering Education?

x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

of relevant research and education. Rodger Bybee, Rodger Bybee and Associates, prepared a
paper on opportunities and barriers to the development and implementation of standards for K–
12 engineering; Rodney L. Custer, Jenny L. Daugherty, and Joseph P. Meyer, Illinois State
University, prepared a paper on the conceptual base for secondary-level engineering education;
Marc J. De Vries, Eindhoven University of Technology/Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands, prepared a paper on standards for precollege engineering education in countries
outside the United States; Jacob Foster, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education, prepared a paper on the history of engineering/technology standards in his state;
James Rutherford, a committee member and retired education advisor to the Executive Officer of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, prepared a paper on alternatives to
traditional content standards; and Cary Sneider, Portland State University, and committee
member Linda Rosen, of Education and Management Innovations, Inc., prepared a paper on how
engineering concepts are or might be incorporated into standards for science and mathematics.
A number of other thoughtful individuals provided input to the project at the committee’s July
2009 workshop.
Thanks are also due to the project staff. Maribeth Keitz managed the committee’s logis-
tical and administrative needs and saw to it that meetings and the workshop were run efficiently
and smoothly. Carolyn Williams, Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate
Fellow, conducted research on precollege engineering education standards outside the United
States; her work led to the commissioning of the paper by Marc J. de Vries. NAE Senior Editor
Carol R. Arenberg substantially improved the readability of the report. Greg Pearson, NAE
senior program officer, played a key role in conceptualizing the study and managed the project
from start to finish.

Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.