SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Engineering Education 
for Innovation Act’’ or the ‘‘E2 for Innovation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) There is a national concern that the Na-
tion’s preeminence in science and innovation is erod-
ing. According to the National Science Board’s 2010 
Science and Engineering Indicators, only 5 percent 
of college graduates in the United States major in 
engineering, compared with 12 percent of European 
students and 20 percent of those in Asia. The report 
also notes that the performance of elementary and 
secondary school students in the United States lags 
behind many nations on international assessments of 
mathematics and science. 
(2) While women earn 58 percent of all bach-
elor’s degrees, they constitute only 18.5 percent of 
bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering. 
(3) African-Americans earn only 4.6 percent of 
bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering and His-
panics earn only 7.2 percent. 
(4) The introduction of engineering education 
has the potential to improve student learning and 
achievement in science and mathematics, increase 
awareness about what engineers do and of engineer-
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ing as a potential career, and boost students’ techno-
logical literacy, according to a new report, ‘‘Engi-
neering in K–12 Education’’ from the National 
Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National 
Research Council (NRC). 
(5) The report described in paragraph (4) also 
identifies the following 3 core principles for K–12 
engineering education: 
(A) Emphasize engineering design process. 
(B) Incorporate important and develop-
mentally appropriate mathematics, science, and 
technology knowledge and skills. 
(C) Promote engineering habits of mind in-
cluding systems thinking, creativity, collabora-
tion, communication, and attention to ethical 
considerations. 
(6) While exposure to formal engineering edu-
cation has increased dramatically over the past 15 
years, reaching several million K–12 students, most 
students in the United States have never experienced 
an engineering course or lesson. 
(7) There is also a lack of diversity in these ex-
isting K–12 engineering education opportunities. 
The number of girls and underrepresented minorities 
participating in K–12 engineering education does 
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not correspond to their proportion of the general 
population. 
(8) Only a handful of States have integrated 
engineering into their core academic K–12 stand-
ards. 
(9) K–12 engineering education in the United 
States is supported by a relatively small number of 
curricular and teacher professional development pro-
grams. 
(10) While science, technology, engineering, and 
mathematics education is viewed as a national edu-
cation policy, often the implementation of policies 
and initiatives focuses exclusively on mathematics 
and science and overlooks the engineering and tech-
nology education components. 
(11) Schools, policy makers, and other stake-
holders often narrowly refer to the term ‘‘techno-
logically literate’’ as the ability to use educational 
technologies. Although educational technology is im-
portant, it is far from the only type of technology we 
depend on in a modern society. In 2006, the Na-
tional Academy of Engineering and the National Re-
search Council’s report, ‘‘Technically Speaking’’, 
outlined a broader view of ‘‘technological literacy’’, 
one more consistent with how scientists, engineers, 
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and technologists see the world. In this view, techno-
logical literacy includes— 
(A) knowledge of technology, the engineer-
ing design process, and impacts on society; 
(B) critical thinking and decisionmaking 
weighing benefits, risks, costs, and tradeoffs; 
and 
(C) capability to use a variety of tech-
nologies, apply the design process, fix simple 
technological problems, and obtain and under-
stand information about technological issues. 
(12) The Standards for Technological Literacy, 
developed by the International Technology Edu-
cation Association and passed by a formal review by 
the National Academy of Engineering and the Na-
tional Research Council, closely align with the Acad-
emies’ concept of technological literacy in paragraph 
(11). 
(13) To support an innovation economy and 
maintain our country’s vitality and security, we 
must expand students’ understanding of technology 
and engineering and widen the pipeline to careers in 
these fields so that a diverse array of talented stu-
dents can pursue them. 
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(14) The Federal Government has an interest 
in expanding K–12 engineering and technology edu-
cation. Testing of technological design skills will be 
assessed as part of the new National Assessment of 
Educational Progress Science 2009 assessment to be 
given to students throughout the United States. The 
National Assessment Governing Board is currently 
developing a National Assessment of Educational 
Progress Technological Literacy probe study to be 
administered in 2012 that will assess design and 
systems, information and communication technology, 
and technology and society. 
(15) To further expand K–12 engineering edu-
cation, this Act seeks to support planning and imple-
menting grants for educational agencies to invest in 
programs and activities to integrate engineering edu-
cation into K–12 instruction and curriculum and to 
fund research on, and evaluation of, such efforts. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) HIGH-NEED
LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL
AGEN-
CY.—The term ‘‘high-need local educational agency’’ 
means a local educational agency— 
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(A)(i) that serves not fewer than 10,000 
children from families with incomes below the 
poverty line; or 
(ii) for which not less than 20 percent of 
the children served by the agency are from fam-
ilies with incomes below the poverty line; and 
(B)(i) for which there is a high percentage 
of teachers not teaching in the academic sub-
jects or grade levels that the teachers were 
trained to teach; or 
(ii) for which there is a high percentage of 
teachers with emergency, provisional, or tem-
porary certification or licensing. 
(2) STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘State educational agency’’ includes the State edu-
cational agency in a State in which the State edu-
cational agency is the sole educational agency for all 
public schools. 
(3) TECHNOLOGICAL
LITERACY.—The term 
‘‘technological literacy’’— 
(A) means the capacity to use, understand, 
and evaluate technology as well as to apply con-
cepts and processes to solve problems and reach 
one’s goals; and 
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(B) encompasses the 3 areas of technology 
and society, engineering design and systems, 
and information and communication technology 
(as considered by the National Assessment Gov-
erning Board in 2010). 
SEC. 4. PLANNING GRANTS. 
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Education, 
in consultation with the Director of the National 
Science Foundation and other relevant heads of 
Federal agencies, is authorized to award planning 
grants to State educational agencies to enable such 
agencies to complete comprehensive planning to 
carry out activities designed to integrate engineering 
education into K–12 instruction and curriculum. 
(2) GRANT PERIOD.—A planning grant awarded 
under this section shall be for a period of not more 
than 2 years. 
(3) NONRENEWABILITY.—The Secretary of 
Education shall not award a State educational agen-
cy more than 1 planning grant under this section. 
(4) MAXIMUM
GRANT
AMOUNT.—A planning 
grant awarded under this section shall not exceed 
$1,000,000 over the period of the grant. 
(5) RESERVATION FOR SMALL STATES.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), the Secretary of Education 
shall reserve not less than 15 percent of the 
funds appropriated to carry out this section for 
each fiscal year to award grants under this sec-
tion to States with populations of less than 
2,600,000 on the date of enactment of this Act. 
(B) WAIVER.—The Secretary of Education 
may waive the 15 percent requirement under 
subparagraph (A) after notifying Congress of 
such intention. 
(b) APPLICATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Each State educational 
agency desiring a planning grant under this section 
shall submit an application to the Secretary of Edu-
cation at such time, in such manner, and accom-
panied by such information as the Secretary of Edu-
cation may require. 
(2) APPLICATION CONTENTS.—Each application 
described in paragraph (1), at a minimum, shall— 
(A) include a description of how the State 
educational agency proposes to use the planning 
grant funds to develop a plan designed to inte-
grate engineering education into K–12 instruc-
tion and curriculum; 
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(B) describe the roles and responsibilities 
of the partners participating in the planning 
under this section; 
(C) provide a budget for the use of the 
planning grant funds; and 
(D) provide such additional assurances and 
information as the Secretary of Education de-
termines to be necessary. 
(c) PARTNERSHIP.—A State educational agency re-
ceiving a planning grant under this section shall complete 
comprehensive planning to carry out activities designed to 
integrate engineering education into K–12 instruction and 
curriculum in coordination with partners, including the 
following: 
(1) The Governor of the State or the designee 
of the Governor. 
(2) Not less than 1 faculty member from a 
school of engineering at an institution of higher edu-
cation located in the State. 
(3) Not less than 1 faculty member from a 
school of education at an institution of higher edu-
cation located in the State. 
(4) Not less than 1 public elementary school ad-
ministrator employed in the State. 
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(5) Not less than 1 public elementary school 
teacher employed in the State. 
(6) Not less than 1 public secondary school ad-
ministrator employed in the State. 
(7) Not less than 1 public secondary school en-
gineering or technology teacher employed in the 
State. 
(8) Not less than 1 representative of the 
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics 
business community in the State. 
(9) Not less than 1 representative from an in-
formal science education center, if available, or a 
nonprofit organization with a demonstrated history 
of working in engineering education. 
(10) Not less than 1 representative from a pro-
fessional engineering society or an academy of 
science with a chapter or other presence in the 
State. 
(11) Any additional representatives identified 
by the State educational agency who possess an ex-
pertise in developing high-quality K–12 engineering 
education materials and resources. 
(d) REQUIRED ACTIVITIES.—A State educational 
agency receiving a planning grant under this section shall 
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use the planning grant funds to carry out each of the fol-
lowing activities: 
(1) REVIEW.—The State educational agency 
shall review resources and programs across the State 
educational agency and its partners that are relevant 
to the objectives of the grant, and coordinate any 
new plans and resources under this section with 
such existing resources and programs. 
(2) PLAN.—The State educational agency shall 
develop an implementation plan to achieve the objec-
tive of integrating engineering education into K–12 
instruction and curriculum. The plan shall include a 
description of how the State educational agency will 
carry out the following: 
(A) Set intermediate and long-term meas-
urable goals. 
(B) Develop and implement a coherent 
plan for achieving the goals, including the fol-
lowing core set of activities: 
(i) An analysis of the State’s existing 
K–12 content standards and assessments 
to determine— 
(I) the extent to which they ad-
dress the integration of engineering 
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education into K–12 instruction and 
curriculum; and 
(II) the extent to which they 
align with workforce and postsec-
ondary expectations. 
(ii) An analysis of the State’s existing 
K–12 
engineering 
education 
curricula, 
which shall include the development of a 
baseline analysis of key indicators that 
measure— 
(I) the number and diversity of 
students who are exposed to this cur-
ricula, including populations under-
represented in engineering fields, for 
example, girls and underrepresented 
minorities; and 
(II) the effectiveness of the cur-
ricula at improving student learning, 
including— 
(aa) 
increasing 
under-
standing of engineering; 
(bb) increasing science, tech-
nology, engineering, and mathe-
matics career aspirations; 
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(cc) increasing technological 
literacy skills; and 
(dd) 
increasing 
student 
achievement in science, tech-
nology, engineering, and mathe-
matics subjects for all students. 
(iii) An analysis of the State’s K–12 
engineering 
and 
technology 
education 
teaching workforce, which shall include the 
development of a baseline analysis of key 
indicators that measure— 
(I) the number of K–12 teachers 
who received any certificates or cre-
dentials in engineering or technology 
education, including the number who 
received professional development in 
engineering education; 
(II) the number and types of pre- 
service, induction, and professional 
development engineering and tech-
nology education programs; and 
(III) the effectiveness of the iden-
tified preservice, induction, and pro-
fessional development engineering and 
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technology education programs as 
they relate to— 
(aa) 
increasing 
under-
standing of engineering; 
(bb) increasing science, tech-
nology, engineering, and mathe-
matics career aspirations; 
(cc) increasing technological 
literacy skills; and 
(dd) 
increasing 
student 
achievement in science, tech-
nology, engineering, and mathe-
matics subjects. 
(C) Create a plan for ongoing collection 
and analysis of data on outcomes, including 
progress toward outcomes. 
(e) SPECIAL RULE.—In the event a State educational 
agency declines or does not submit an application under 
this section, the Secretary of Education shall provide for 
another entity or consortium, with the capacity to carry 
out the activities under this section, in partnership with 
the partners listed in subsection (c), in such State, to sub-
mit an application. 
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(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$12,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015. 
SEC. 5. IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS. 
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Education, 
in consultation with the Director of the National 
Science Foundation and other relevant heads of 
Federal agencies, is authorized to award grants to 
State educational agencies to pay the Federal share 
of the cost of implementing innovative, integrative 
engineering education initiatives into K–12 instruc-
tion and curriculum. 
(2) PARTNERSHIP.—A State educational agency 
receiving an implementation grant under this section 
may partner with such entities (including the enti-
ties listed in section 4(c)) that the State chooses in 
order to carry out the activities described in this sec-
tion. 
(b) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—The Secretary of Education 
shall award a grant under this section in an amount that 
is not less than $10,000,000, or a comparably sufficient 
amount relative to the amounts appropriated to carry out 
this section. Such amount shall be pro-rated over the pe-
riod of the grant. 
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(c) DURATION AND RENEWAL.— 
(1) DURATION.—The Secretary of Education 
shall award grants under this section for not more 
than 4 years. 
(2) RENEWAL.—The Secretary of Education 
may renew a grant awarded under this section sub-
ject to the progress of the State educational agency 
in meeting the benchmarks described in subsection 
(h). 
(d) PRIORITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In awarding grants under 
this section, the Secretary of Education shall give 
priority to State educational agencies that submit an 
application 
under 
subsection 
(e) 
that 
dem-
onstrates— 
(A) satisfaction of the required activities or 
comparable activities under section 4(d), as de-
termined by the Secretary; 
(B) that a significant percentage of per-
sons served by the grant will be students from 
population underrepresented in engineering 
fields; and 
(C) that the State’s partners under sub-
section (a)(2) agree to pay a portion of the non- 
Federal share costs, provided in cash or in-kind, 
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of the programs and activities carried out under 
the grant. 
(2) SMALL STATE GUARANTEE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—In each fiscal year in 
which a grant is awarded under this section, 
the Secretary of Education shall ensure that 
not less than 1 grant be awarded to a State 
with a population of less than 2,600,000 on the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(B) WAIVER.—The Secretary of Education 
may waive the requirement under subparagraph 
(A) after notifying Congress of such intention. 
(e) APPLICATIONS.—A State educational agency that 
desires to receive a grant under this section shall submit 
an application to the Secretary of Education at such time, 
in such manner, and containing such information as the 
Secretary of Education may require. Each such applica-
tion shall include a description of how the State edu-
cational agency will integrate engineering education into 
K–12 instruction and curriculum through programs and 
activities described in subsection (f). 
(f) USES OF FUNDS.—A State educational agency 
that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant 
funds to pay the Federal share of carrying out the fol-
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lowing programs and activities in collaboration with the 
State’s partners under subsection (a)(2): 
(1) Implementing challenging academic content 
standards, achievement standards, and curricula 
frameworks that include engineering. 
(2) Developing new or obtaining effective cur-
ricula in engineering education. 
(3) Designing and implementing engineering 
education assessment items and tools. 
(4) Developing or improving elementary and 
secondary teacher preservice, induction, and profes-
sional development engineering and technology edu-
cation programs, including those that lead to a cer-
tificate or other credential in engineering or tech-
nology education. 
(5) Recruiting qualified teachers to provide en-
gineering education for high-need local educational 
agencies and high-need schools. 
(6) Establishing distance learning modules for 
teachers or students in engineering education. 
(7) Creating online engineering education tools 
that are widely accessible. 
(8) Investing in after-school engineering edu-
cation programs. 
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(g) TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of 
Education is authorized to reserve not more than 1 per-
cent of the amounts available to carry out this section to 
provide technical assistance, directly or by grant or con-
tract with nonprofit organizations with demonstrated ex-
pertise in designing, implementing, or evaluating relevant 
programs, in order to help State educational agencies pre-
pare for, qualify for, apply for, and maintain a grant 
under this section. 
(h) BENCHMARKS.— 
(1) BENCHMARKS.—Each State educational 
agency desiring a grant under this section shall— 
(A) develop quantifiable benchmarks for 
the activities supported under the grant, which 
shall include increasing student achievement in 
science, technology, engineering, and mathe-
matics subjects, and may include— 
(i) increasing student knowledge and 
competency of grade-appropriate engineer-
ing design skills; 
(ii) increasing the number of students 
who are taught engineering education; 
(iii) increasing the number of edu-
cators who are prepared to teach engineer-
ing education; and 
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(iv) increasing the number and diver-
sity of students who plan to enroll in post-
secondary engineering courses and pursue 
an engineering degree; and 
(B) submit the benchmarks for approval to 
the Secretary of Education in order to receive 
grant funds under this section. 
(2) REPORTS.—Each State educational agency 
receiving a grant under this section shall— 
(A) annually measure and report to the 
Secretary of Education the progress of the 
State educational agency in achieving the 
benchmarks developed under paragraph (1); 
and 
(B) collect and report data of those served 
by the grant relating to the student bench-
marks, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, 
disability status, migrant status, English pro-
ficiency, and status as economically disadvan-
taged, except that such disaggregation shall not 
be required in a case in which the number of 
students in a category is insufficient to yield 
statistically reliable information or the results 
would reveal personally identifiable information 
about an individual student. 
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(3) GUIDANCE.—The Secretary of Education 
shall provide guidance regarding acceptable data 
sources and methodologies for— 
(A) establishing baselines and performance 
benchmarks; and 
(B) measuring progress by State edu-
cational agencies receiving such grants. 
(i) NON-FEDERAL SHARE; SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUP-
PLANT.— 
(1) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—A State educational 
agency that receives a grant under this section 
shall provide the non-Federal share of the costs 
of the programs and activities described in sub-
section (f) that are carried out under the grant. 
The amount of the non-Federal share under 
this section for a fiscal year shall be not less 
than 50 percent. The non-Federal share may be 
in cash or in-kind, and may be provided from 
local resources, contributions from private orga-
nizations, contributions from the State’s part-
ners under subsection (a)(2), or a combination 
of such sources. 
(B) FINANCIAL HARDSHIP WAIVER.—The 
Secretary of Education may waive or reduce the 
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non-Federal share of a State educational agen-
cy that has submitted an application for a 
grant under this section if the State educational 
agency demonstrates a need for such waiver or 
reduction due to extreme financial hardship. 
(2) 
SUPPLEMENT, 
NOT
SUPPLANT.—Grant 
funds provided under this section shall be used to 
supplement, and not supplant, any other Federal or 
State funds otherwise available to carry out the ac-
tivities described in this section. 
(j) SPECIAL RULE.—In the event a State educational 
agency declines or does not submit an application under 
this section, the Secretary of Education shall provide for 
another entity or a consortium, with the capacity to carry 
out the activities under this section in such State, to sub-
mit an application. 
(k) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$125,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 through 2015. 
SEC. 6. RESEARCH AND EVALUATIONS. 
(a) IN
GENERAL.—The Institute of Education 
Sciences shall support, directly or through grants or con-
tracts, research on engineering education and evaluation 
of the grants awarded under this Act, including studies 
and evaluations that— 
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(1) assess the effectiveness of the programs and 
activities carried out by each State educational agen-
cy receiving a grant under section 5 in— 
(A) improving student achievement in 
science, technology, engineering, and mathe-
matics subjects; 
(B) improving student understanding of 
engineering; 
(C) enhancing technological literacy of stu-
dents; 
(D) increasing numbers and diversity of 
students with science, technology, engineering, 
and mathematics career aspirations; and 
(E) increasing the supply of engineering 
and technology education teachers; 
(2) assess how the programs and activities car-
ried out by each State educational agency receiving 
a grant under section 5 can be replicated by a vari-
ety of State educational agencies and local edu-
cational agencies; 
(3) assess how the programs and activities car-
ried out by each State educational agency receiving 
a grant under section 5 lead to students developing 
engineering design ideas, practices and habits of 
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mind over time, and the types of conditions nec-
essary to support these developments; 
(4) identify and assess how science inquiry and 
mathematical reasoning can be connected to engi-
neering design in K–12 curricula and teacher profes-
sional development; and 
(5) include any other information or assess-
ments the Secretary of Education may require. 
(b) DISSEMINATION.—The Secretary of Education 
shall, based on the results of each evaluation completed 
under subsection (a), disseminate information and anal-
ysis to the public, and provide technical assistance to State 
educational agencies, on best practices and promising in-
novations in the field of K–12 engineering education. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2015. 
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