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Originally Posted by sanddrag
By the same token, why is there no AP Engineering? Is it because engineering is too diverse? Is it because very few people with engineering experience work in the education sector? They have an AP just about everything else.
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I'm not sure how well an AP Engineering class would work. AP classes correspond to and translate into college credits for the many universities that accept them, but that's because the teachers and the curriculum are vetted by the College Board while the students' grasp of the material is vetted by their performance on the AP test. When it comes to Engineering, it would be much more difficult to agree on course material to teach and test on. Also, I feel like many universities wouldn't even consider accepting the AP credits until the course itself was ABET accredited, which I doubt would happen.
Now I would love to see enough high school engineering courses across the country to create a need for a third-party accreditation board for high-school engineering and technical courses. Unfortunately, many STEM programs are created at high schools that don't have the resources available to sustain or even truly have programs that benefit students interested in STEM.