Program Overview

MUSIC is a curriculum enhancement program funded by the National Science Foundation that focuses on the integration of engineering problem solving with the standard course of study. MUSIC places graduate and undergraduate Teaching Fellows from the Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke University Marine Lab in elementary and middle schools across NC.

Goals and Objectives

The ever-increasing influence and rapid advance of technology demands a skilled, highly-educated technical workforce. From defense to infrastructure to telecommunications to consumer gadgetry, the quality of our engineers affects the quality of our lives.

The MUSIC program provides opportunities for children to learn to think critically and analytically while developing a passion for understanding the world and an appreciation for improving the quality of all living things.

Program Format

Duke Engineering Teaching Fellows spend 10 hours per week at their partnership school assisting teachers with the creation and delivery of hands-on activities that provide meaningful contexts in which children apply math and science concepts.

What is Engineering?

The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes and systems.

What is the Difference between Science and Engineering?

Scientists investigate what is; they discover new knowledge by peering into the unknown...

Engineers create what has not been; they make things that have never existed before...
--- Joe Bordogna, National Science Foundation