A majority of the TeachEngineering collection was originally created and classroom-tested

by professors, teachers and graduate students supported by the National Science Foundation, primarily NSF GK-12 and RET grants, through higher-education institutions nationwide. Check out our nationwide contributors below:

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TeachEngineering Sponsors and Contributors!

In 2003, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the creation of the TeachEngineering digital library for educators to teach engineering in K-12 settings and build upon the K-12 engineering curricula already developed as a result of NSF GK-12 program funding at several engineering colleges. NSF's National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program sponsored the development of the TeachEngineering core architecture, the initial digital library collection of K-12 learning objects and the integration of TeachEngineering into the NSDL.*

The University of Colorado’s College of Engineering & Applied Science provides website hosting, systems administration and maintenance, and expansion funding.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education funded the creation and classroom testing of several of the elementary-level K-12 engineering curricular units.

The Gates Family Foundation funded early proof-of-concept development, as well as later alignment of the curricula to the Next Generation Science and Math Common Core Standards.

Agilent Technologies Foundation funded a web metrics study that enabled us to assess nearly four years’ worth of TeachEngineering use data.

AirWaterGas NSF Sustainability Research Network — College of Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder – For a high school air quality inquiry student research unit developed through an NSF CBET grant.

Central Michigan University — For high school curricula created by teachers, college students and faculty through the School of Engineering and Technology's NSF-sponsored Multidisciplinary Engineering Research for Rural Michigan's Future RET Program.

Clarkson University — Susan Powers and Jan DeWaters for their middle school curricular unit on energy, created through an NSF GK-12 grant.

Clemson University — For lessons and activities developed by science and math teachers through the NSF-funded Engineering Fibers and Films Experience (EFF-X) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program.

Colorado School of Mines — For introductory signal processing curricula created through an NSF CAREER Award and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Colorado State University — For lessons and activities developed by graduate students in the Colorado Higher-Education Interdisciplinary Program (CHIP) through the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s NSF-funded GK-12 project.

Colorado State University — For curricula created through the NSF-sponsored Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Science and Technology Research Experience for Teachers (RET) through the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Duke University — For high school curricula created through an NSF CAREER Award and the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science's NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Teachers (RET) grant.

Engineering World Health — For hands-on activities that engage youngsters in the global organization’s aim to creatively improve healthcare delivery in the developing world; supported by the Biogen Foundation and The Engineering Place at NC State University.

Florida International University – For activities created by teachers working with university researchers through the Nanotechnology RET Program at the College of Engineering and Computing in collaboration with its Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Education.

Georgia Institute of Technology — For activities that integrate art, science and engineering, created through the NSF-funded Partnerships for Research, Innovation and Multi-Scale Engineering (PRIME) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program.

Institute of Navigation and CU-Boulder Engineering — Penny Axelrad for a middle school curricular unit on navigation.

The Johns Hopkins University — For curricula created by the Complex Systems Science Laboratory, Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, with support from the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Division of Computing and Communication Foundations.

Kansas State University — For activities developed by STEM graduate students through Infusing System Design and Sensor Technology in Education (INSIGHT), a NSF-funded GK-12 program.

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics — University of Colorado Boulder - Erin Wood for activities exploring light spectroscopy, developed through NASA's Project SPECTRA!

Michigan State University — For curricula developed and tested by middle and high school STEM teachers through the NSF-sponsored Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site on Bio-Inspired Technology and Systems (BITS) Program at the College of Engineering.

New Jersey Institute of Technology — For a middle school activity created through the NSF-sponsored Gateway Engineering Education Coalition.

North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte – For high school lessons and activities developed through the Grand Challenges for Engineering Focused RET with Stratified Teams, a collaboration of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, and the Control Optimization for Renewable Energies (CORE) Lab at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

North Dakota State University Fargo — For activities created by teachers and university researchers through the Research Experience for Teachers: Engineering in Precision Agriculture for Rural STEM Educators program at the College of Engineering.

Oregon State University — Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences - Sujaya Rao for life sciences-oriented activities developed through a Rural Science Education Program NSF grant.

Polytechnic Institute of New York University — For activities developed by engineering graduate student fellows through Applying Mechatronics to Promote Science (AMPS), a NSF-funded GK-12 project.

Polytechnic Institute of New York University — For high school curricula created through the NSF-sponsored Science and Mechatronics Aided Research for Teachers with an Entrepreneurial ExpeRience (SMARTER): A Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program in the School of Engineering.

Purdue University — For lessons and activities developed through the College of Agriculture and Biological Engineering's Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, a NSF Engineering Research Project (ERC).

Miguel R. Ramirez — For amazing high school advanced placement math activities created by a high school math teacher in Texas.

Rice University — For high school activities created by teachers and faculty, supported by the NSF-funded Nanotechnology Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program through the Rice Office of STEM Engagement.

SparkFun Education — For activities created and honed through SparkFun Electronics’ outreach classes, events and teacher workshops.

The College of New Jersey — For activities created through the Department of Technological Studies in the School of Engineering.

University of California Davis — For lessons and activities created by graduate student and classroom teacher pairs through the Renewable Energy Systems Opportunity for Unified Research Collaboration and Education (RESOURCE), a GK-12 program in the College of Engineering.

University of California Los Angeles — For high school curricula created in the UCLA Science and Engineering of the Environment of Los Angeles (SEE-LA) NSF GK-12 Program.

University of California Santa Barbara — For robotics curricula created by mechanical engineering graduate students through the School for Scientific Thought and funded in part by the National Science Foundation and Army Research Office.

University of Colorado Boulder — Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Jean Hertzberg for activities on forces and fluids.

University of Connecticut — For hands-on activities created through the School of Engineering’s NSF-supported research experience for teachers (RET) program: The Joule Fellows Program – Teachers in Sustainable Technologies Research Laboratories.

University of Dayton in collaboration with Central State University and Wright State University in Ohio — For lessons and activities created by teachers and university researchers through a collaborative NSF-supported RET Program.

University of Florida — For lessons and activities created through the Engineering for Biology: Multidisciplinary Research Experiences for Teachers in Elementary Grades (MRET) Program at the College of Engineering.

University of Kansas — For lessons and activities created through the SHIFTED RET Program through the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis hosted by the University of Kansas Lawrence and Greenbush.

University of Houston — For lessons and activities developed by STEM fellows through the Innovations in Nanotechnology and Nanosciences' NSF GK-12 Program and STEM teachers in the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program, both in the Cullen College of Engineering.

University of Minnesota — For activities created through the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, an NSF ERC and RET Program.

University of Missouri — For curricula created through the College of Engineering Center for Computational Neurobiology's NSF GK-12 grant.

University of Nebraska-Omaha — For curricula developed and tested by teachers and faculty through the NSF-sponsored RET in Engineering and Computer Science Site on Infusing Mobile Platform Applied Research into Teaching (IMPART) Program.

University of New Mexico — For lessons and activities created by teachers and university researchers through the Energizing Engineering Education (E3) Research Experiences for Teachers program at the School of Engineering and College of Education.

University of Notre Dame — For curricula created by teachers through the NSF-supported Computing Research Experience for Teachers program in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

University of South Carolina — Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Jed Lyons for activities developed through an NSF GK-12 grant.

University of South Florida — For lessons and activities developed by STEM fellows through Students, Teachers and Resources in Sciences (STARS), a NSF-funded GK-12 program at the College of Engineering.

University of South Florida — For curricula created by the Membrane Biotechnology Laboratory at the College of Engineering, primarily funded by the NSF CBET-sponsored ICARUS program for wastewater biorecycling.

University of Southern Mississippi — For high school activities created by teachers working with university faculty and students through the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials’ NSF RET program, Engineering and Computer Science Site for Sustainable Polymer Engineering Research.

University of Texas-Arlington — For lessons and activities created by middle and high school teachers through the Research Experience for Teachers in Hazard Mitigation, a NSF-funded RET Program in the College of Engineering.

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (previously University of Texas-Pan American) — For lessons and activities created by teachers and engineering faculty through the NSF-sponsored Research Experiences for Teachers in Emerging and Novel Engineering Technologies (RET-ENET) Program in the Electrical Engineering Department.

University of Virginia — Shayn Peirce for K-12 activities created by students in her biomedical engineering senior design course.

Utah State University — For curricula created through the Community-Based Engineering Design Challenges for Adolescent English Learners, an NSF DRK-12 project in the College of Engineering’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department.

Vanderbilt University — Stacy Klein-Gardner for myriad curricular materials developed by teachers using the Legacy Cycle through the NSF-funded VU Bioengineering RET Program in the School of Engineering.

Washington State University — For activities developed by STEM fellows through the College of Engineering and Architecture's Culturally Relevant Engineering Application in Mathematics Program, a NSF GK-12 project.

Washington University in St. Louis — For activities developed by STEM fellows through the School of Engineering and Applied Science's NSF GK-12 grant.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute — For activities created and tested by teachers and faculty through the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s NSF-sponsored Inquiry-Based Bioengineering Research and Design Experiences for Middle-School Teachers RET Program.

* Creation of this collection was funded under the National Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program, as well as through NSF’s Engineering Directorate. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant nos. DUE 0226322, DUE 0532709 and DGE 0946502. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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