PLTW Engineering Courses (9-12)
Empower Your Students to Engineer The Future with PLTW’s High School Engineering Curriculum
PLTW Engineering Students Explore Success Through Experimentation
You see it every day: students enter the classroom expecting one right answer, a singular path to success. But you know the world doesn’t award grades and answers aren’t always so easy to find.
PLTW Engineering teaches students that real-world problems often have multiple solutions with many pathways to achieve success. With engaging courses like environmental sustainability, civil engineering and architecture, digital electronics, and aerospace engineering, you can empower your students to explore possibilities, experiment, learn from failure, and turn ideas into reality. PLTW Engineering encourages students to adopt a problem-solving mindset, engaging them in compelling, real-world challenges that help them become better collaborators and thinkers.
Teach the in-demand knowledge and skills students will use in high school and for the rest of their lives, on any career path they take.
View the PLTW Engineering Course DescriptionsPrepare Today's Students for Tomorrow's Careers
Develop College and Career Readiness
Prepare students today for the roles they want and the reality they will face in college and beyond.
Teach with Hands-on Activities
Inspire deeper learning and transform your classroom with an engineering curriculum that encourages experimentation and problem solving.
Build In-Demand Skills
Equip students to succeed by practicing skills like collaboration, teamwork, and communication in the classroom.
Download the PLTW High School Evidence PaperBuilding a Strong Foundation for College and Career
Each PLTW Engineering course engages students in interdisciplinary activities like working with a client to design a home, programming electronic devices or robotic arms, or exploring algae as a biofuel source. These activities not only build knowledge and skills in engineering, but also empower students to develop essential skills such as problem solving, critical and creative thinking, communication, collaboration, and perseverance.
Engineering Essentials
Students explore the breadth of engineering career opportunities and experiences as they solve engaging and challenging real-world problems like creating a natural relief center system or creating a solution to improve the safety and well-being of local citizens.
Introduction to Engineering Design
Students dig deep into the engineering design process, applying math, science, and engineering standards to hands-on projects like designing a new toy or improving an existing product.
Principles of Engineering
Students explore a broad range of engineering topics including mechanisms, strength of structure and materials, and automation, and then they apply what they know to take on challenges like designing a self-powered car.
Aerospace Engineering
Students explore the physics of flight and bring what they’re learning to life through hands-on projects like designing a glider and creating a program for an autonomous space rover.
Civil Engineering and Architecture
Students learn important aspects of building and site design and development, and then they apply what they know to design a commercial building.
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Students discover and explore manufacturing processes, product design, robotics, and automation, and then they apply what they have learned to design solutions for real-world manufacturing problems.
Computer Science Principles
Using Python® as a primary tool, students develop computational-thinking skills and tackle challenges like designing apps to solve real-world problems for clients.
Digital Electronics
Students explore the foundations of computing by engaging in circuit design processes to create combinational logic and sequential logic (memory) as electrical engineers do in industry.
Environmental Sustainability
Students investigate and design solutions in response to real-world challenges related to clean and abundant drinking water, food supply, and renewable energy.
Engineering Design and Development
Students identify a real-world challenge and then research, design, and test a solution, ultimately presenting their unique solutions to a panel of engineers.
We offer more than STEM curricula. PLTW schools and students are set up for long-term success.
Dynamic and Meaningful Professional Development for Teachers
PLTW Core Training is a robust and interactive professional development experience that empowers teachers to facilitate engaging and meaningful learning for their students.
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Funding and Grant Opportunities
Make PLTW happen in your school through a variety of available funding and grant opportunities.
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Assessments Designed to Mirror PLTW’s Transformative Learning Experience
Using innovative, inquiry-based items, PLTW’s redesigned Assessments measure a broader range of knowledge, skills, and cognitive abilities, and deliver a dynamic experience that is authentic to the learning environment of the PLTW classroom.
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Provide your high school students with access to real-world, applied learning experiences that empower them to gain the skills they need to thrive in college, career, and beyond.