Engineering Education

Program Overview

School of Engineering

O'Shaughnessy Science Hall (OSS) 100, (651) 962-575

School of Engineering Website

Faculty:

Weinkauf (dean), Abraham, Acton, Bach, Besser, Capa Salinas, Forliti, Gagnon, Hennessey, Jalkio, Kabalan, Kang, Koerner, Lee, Lederle, Ling (Ali), Ling (Tiffany), Min, Moustafa, Mowry, Nelson-Cheeseman, Nepal, Orser, Salamy, Secord, Shepard, Welt, Wentz, You.

Faculty from other departments and adjunct faculty from industry teach specialized courses.

Minor in Engineering Education

The Engineering Education minor is designed for students who are majoring in Education. The minor is intended to give pre-service teachers a solid background in basic engineering concepts that can be applied to a P-12 classroom. Special effort is made throughout the program to tie engineering concepts to the Minnesota academic standards in science.

Students must complete the following courses:

  • ENGR 130 Fundamentals of Engineering for Educators I (4 credit)
  • ENGR 100 Introduction to Engineering Design (2 credits)
  • EDUC 327 Engineering in the P-12 Classroom (4 credits)

Plus six additional credits of engineering (ENGR) courses; four of the six elective credits may be completed with one of the following PHYS courses:

  • PHYS 104 Astronomy (4 credits)
  • PHYS 105 Musical Acoustics (4 credits)
  • PHYS 109 General Physics I (4 credits)
  • PHYS 110 General Physics II (4 credits)
  • PHYS 211 Classical Physics I (4 credits)
  • PHYS 212 Classical Physics II (4 credits)