Dr. Manuel Figueroa
Design Project is to provide an in-depth technological experience from conception to completion through the design, development, construction and testing of a product that solves a specific problem. Solving a student-defined, open-ended problem through a step-by-step design methodology fully prepares pre-service technology teachers to teach about design. The struggle and frustrations pre-service students inevitably experience become part of a set of integral instructional tools they will draw upon as they teach future K-12 students.