Nov. 2, 2009
The contributions of Ken Welty, professor of technology teacher education at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie, to a report on K-12 engineering education has caught the eye of both the House and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
The two entities of the federal government held a hearing Oct. 22, during which they featured the report.
For the past five years, Welty and fellow UW-Stout professor Brian McAlister have been involved in the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, which is a project funded by the National Science Foundation based at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
As part of the project, Welty collaborated with the National Academy of Engineering to review engineering curriculum efforts at the K-12 level. Welty became a major contributor to a resulting publication, produced by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council.
It was this publication that was featured in the Oct. 22 hearing.
For more information, contact Welty at weltyk@uwstout.edu or 715-232-1206. More information on the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education is online at http://ncete.org/.
