Engineering the Future

Course Description

Grades 9-12

This course provides students with the opportunity to discover how science, math, and engineering are part of the everyday world.

Students develop an understanding of how advances in technology affect human society and how human society determines which new technologies will be developed.

Students take on the role of engineers and apply the engineering design process to define and solve problems by inventing and improving products, processes, and systems.

They begin to understand the relationships among:

Science

Technology

Engineering

Math

Engineering the Future (EtF) was created by the Museum of Science, Boston through its National Center for Technological Literacy.