Promoting Children Engineering

Running head: PROMOTING CHILDREN ENGINEERING
Promoting Children Engineering
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1PROMOTING CHILDREN LEARNING
STEM has been emerged as an educational priority in the recent years and it aims at
linking deeper student learning with critical thinking and real life connections. It stands for
Science (S), Technology (T), Engineering (E) and Mathematics (M) (Belland et al., 2017).
However, “E” in STEM is often considered to be an afterthought with the subject of science
and mathematics. According to (), in early engineering, the subject of problem solving,
science, designs and mathematics are important in the development of the engineering
identities among the young students. Engineering education is very crucial in today’s date for
engaging the young students with the concepts of engineering and to help them grow and
develop their skills of problem solving that engineers need to develop throughout their
process of training. The capability of thinking through the complicated problems,
collaborating with others, preserving and improving through failures and communicating
about the human needs are very important skills which can be developed among the youths
by means of engineering education. According to Gough (2015), the young students should
not need to wait for having their under graduation for starting exploring engineering as their
career path.
Furthermore, as claimed by Wang and Degol (2017), the education about engineering
have the potential to yield more immediate benefits in the field of academic career of the
students. The practices of engineering basically involve all the four disciplines of STEM.
There are several educators who agree on the notion that an integrated approach towards the
learning of engineering deepens the study of STEM and at the same time, help in building
some critical skills that are necessary for the 21st century students in order to ensure their
career success. These skills include the skills of computer modelling, problem solving,
collection of data and their analysis, communication of the complicated ideas and several
engineering concepts like optimisation and trade-offs. It is to note that the engineering
concepts are the part of STEM education. By means of building a critical thinking and real