Teacher education for instrumentation — A report from the ASEE

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Instrumentation Committee explored teacher preparation for this important assignment during the 73rd Annual ASEE Meeting. The discussions firmly established that instrumentation, as a totally identified area of study, generally appeared in two-year post high school or graduate school programs. While the ASEE Report “Characteristics of Excellence in Engineering Technology Education” fully documents the need for instrumentation in a technology curriculum, only as the teachers are prepared to expand their horizons of instrumentation knowledge and skill can the visions of the students be realistically focused on the requirements of industry. To bring the need for teacher education into proper focus, it is necessary that the extent of the field be understood from an educational viewpoint.