Resources on Engineering and Technology Education in the NCETE Collection

Updated January 16, 2008

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1993). Benchmarks for Science Literacy. Washington, DC: Author.

Billington, D. P. (1983). The tower and the bridge: The new art of structural engineering. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Billington, D. P. (1996). The innovators: The engineering pioneers who made America Modern. New York: Wiley.

Blackburn, T. R. (2003). Getting Science Grants: Effective Strategies for Funding Success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Bucciarelli, L. L. (1994). Designing engineers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chapin, P. G. (2004). Research Projects and Research Proposals: A Guide for Scientists Seeking Funding. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Committee on Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers, National Academies Teacher Advisory Council (2007). Enhancing professional development for teachers: Potential uses of information technology, report of a workshop. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996). Materials science and technology: Polymers, ceramics, metals, semiconductors, composites, concrete, energy. Urbana, IL: Author.

Dym, C. L. (1994). Engineering design: A synthesis of views. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Dym, C. L., & Little, P. (2000). Engineering design: A project-based introduction. New York: Wiley

International Technology Education Association. (2000). Standards for technological literacy: Content for the study of technology. Reston, VA: Author.

Keeley, P. 2005. Science curriculum topic study. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Loucks-Horsley, S., Love, N., Stiles, K. E., & Hewson, P., (2003). Designing professional development for teachers of science and mathematics. (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

National Academy of Engineering. (2004). The engineer of 2020. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

National Academy of Engineering. (2005). Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

National Center for Technological Literacy, Museum of Science, Boston. (2008). Engineering the future: Science, technology, and the design process. Emeryville, CA: Key Curriculum Press.

National Center for Technological Literacy, Museum of Science, Boston. (2008). Engineering the future: Science, technology, and the design process teacher guides. Emeryville, CA: Key Curriculum Press.

National Center for Technological Literacy, Museum of Science, Boston. (2008). Engineering the future: Science, technology, and the design process teacher guides Engineer’s notebook: Design a building of the future. Emeryville, CA: Key Curriculum Press.

National Center for Technological Literacy, Museum of Science, Boston. (2008). Engineering the future: Science, technology, and the design process teacher guides Engineer’s notebook: Designing the best organizer in the world. Emeryville, CA: Key Curriculum Press.

National Center for Technological Literacy, Museum of Science, Boston. (2008). Engineering the future: Science, technology, and the design process teacher guides Engineer’s notebook: Improve a patended boat design. Emeryville, CA: Key Curriculum Press.

National Center for Technological Literacy, Museum of Science, Boston. (2008). Engineering the future: Science, technology, and the design process teacher guides Engineer’s notebook: Electricity and communications systems. Emeryville, CA: Key Curriculum Press.

National Research Council. (1996). National science education standards. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

National Research Council. (2006). Tech Tally: Approaches for Assessing Technological Literacy. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Orsak, G. C., Wood, S. L., Douglas, S. C., Munson, D. C., Jr., Treichler, J. R., Athale, R., & Yoder, M. A. (2004). Engineering our digital future. Upper Saddle River, MJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Pearson, G., & Young, A. T. (Eds.). 2002). Technically speaking: Why all Americans need to know more about technology. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Pellegrino, J. W., Chudowsky, N., & Glaser, R. (Eds.). (2001). Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Petroski, H. (1992). To engineer is human: The role of failure in successful design. New York: Vintage.

Petroski, H. (1994). Design paradigms: Case histories of error and judgment in engineering. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Petroski, H. (2003). Small things considered: Why there is no perfect design. New York: Knopf.

Petroski, H. The evolution of useful things: How everyday artifacts-from forks and pins to paper clips and zippers-came to be as they are. New York: Vintage Books.

Petroski, H. Pushing the limits: New adventures in engineering. New York: Vintage.

Petroski, H. Success through failure. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Pool, R. (1997). Beyond engineering: How society shapes technology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1993). Benchmarks for science literacy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1990). Science for all Americans. New York: Oxford University Press.

Shavelson, R. J., & Towne, L. (Eds.). (2002). Scientific research in education. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.