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Engineering Pathway provides digital library of engineering teaching resources to the K-12 Education and Higher Education communities. Engineering Pathway also provides education-level specific information about preparing courses, developing engineering curricula, and national standards and accreditation programs.
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More information about engineering careers, professional societies and diversifying engineering can be found under Broadening Participation.
- Search for Learning Resources. You can search for learning resources by using either a "Quick Search" or an "Advanced Search". The "Quick Search" bar at the top allows you to immediately search the entire collection. For a more tailored search, use the "Advanced Search" to specify the results of your search with greater detail: search for resources within specific disciplines, tailored to ranges of grade levels, and more.
- Select relevant resources from Search Results. The Search Results provide information about each resource, including their respective discipline, resource type, catalog source, and an excerpt from the resource's description.
- View Resource Details and Access Resource direction from provider. The resource catalog entry linked from the search results provides specific details about the learning resource, as well as a direct link to access it. Engineering Pathway often does not host the learning resource, so this link may lead away from the Engineering Pathway page. Engineering Pathway is not responsible for the content or upkeep of the sites that host the materials, however we do try to keep our links current. If you find any broken links, please contact us so that they can be promptly fixed.
- Check for Permissions, Copyrights, and Fees. The majority of the resources in Engineering Pathway's databases are not owned by Engineering Pathway. Therefore, all copyrights and permissions are held by the content's original creators. Sometimes copyright and permission information has been provided to Engineering Pathway and is listed in the resource catalog entry.
- Use, Link to, or Download Resources.You can use Engineering Pathway resources by sharing the URL with students or colleagues, or saving it for personal reference. Animations, videos, and other multimedia items can often be downloaded for use on individual computers or for inclusion into presentation software such as PowerPoint.
Visitors at EngineeringPathway.com are able to...
- Engage with the Engineering Education Community
Learn about the latest research in engineering education and engineering diversity; K-12 standards or ABET accreditation; professional opportunities in engineering education; and innovative resources to revitalize your course or even your curriculum.
- Search and use the Engineering Pathway community's database of Engineering Teaching Resources.
You can search via the "Advanced Search", located on the left navigation menu, or through the "Quick Search" located at the top of each page.
- Submit new resources to the Engineering Pathway Database
Registered users can submit resources to the database for others' to discover and use.
- "Bookmark" favorite Engineering Teaching Resources in "My Workspace"
Registered users also have the ability to "Bookmark" favorite resources, allowing them to be easily recovered later on. Build your own collection of teaching resources today!
- Comment and Review others' Engineering Teaching Resources
Review teaching resources that have been submitted by engineering educators, and provide your own comment on teaching resources to a wider engineering education community.
Engineering Pathway is a combined effort of NEEDS.org and TeachEngineering.com to provide a more complete digital library of engineering education materials for all education levels.
Engineering Pathway is an engineering teaching resource digital library sponsored by the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The website went live on October 15, 2006, and strives to become a nexus for engineering education resources and the greater engineering education community by permanently merging the strengths of both TeachEngineering.com and NEEDS.org.
NEEDS–The National Engineering Education Delivery System is a digital library of learning resources for engineering education. NEEDS provides web-based access to a database of learning resources where the user (whether they be learners or instructors) can search for, locate, download, and comment on resources to aid their learning or teaching process.
TeachEngineering.com is a searchable, web-based digital library populated with standards-based K-12 curricula for use by engineering faculty and K-12 teachers to teach engineering in K-12 settings. Several university partners are collaborating to create this NSF-funded collection, including the Univ. of Colorado, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Colorado School of Mines, Duke Univ., Tufts Digital Collections Archives and Oregon State Univ. The TeachEngineering web site provides educators with access to a growing curricular collection, as the contents evolve under the stewardship of the American Society for Engineering Education.
