Engineering Essentials (PLTW)

N1303760 Engineering Essentials (PLTW)

Recommended Grade Levels: 9-10

Prerequisite: none

Credit: 1

Description: The purpose of the PLTW Engineering Essentials (EES) course is to provide a multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning foundational concepts of engineering practice, providing students opportunities to explore the breadth of engineering career opportunities and experiences, and solve engaging and challenging real-world problems. Goals and outcomes for students include developing a strategic, systematic design and inquiry processes to guide development of an effective solution to a problem. In EES, students discover that successful STEM professionals exhibit personal and professional characteristics that lend themselves to the creative, collaborative, and solution-driven nature of their professions. Students investigate engineering career fields and determine the technical literacy and career-specific knowledge and skills to support professional practice. They incorporate computational thinking, modeling, systems thinking, professional practices and communication, project management, collaboration, professionalism and ethics as critical parts of a problem-solving process that supports the ability to interpret complex, open-ended problems across disciplines.

Students are encouraged to participate in extended learning experiences such as career and technical student organizations and other leadership or extracurricular organizations.