Welcome to the Engineering and Technology Education Division (ETED) of the Association for Career and Technical Education®. Our Division is composed of engineering and technology education teachers from both middle school and high school classrooms across the nation, district and state supervisors of secondary engineering and technology education, plus engineering/technology education teacher educators. The ETED helps promote and enhance secondary engineering and technology education throughout the United States and cooperates with other ACTE Divisions to advance career and technical education nationally.

Included in the Engineering and Technology Education Division are four areas of interest, Arts, Media and Entertainment; Esports; Information Technology; and STEM. ACTE offers a variety of STEM-related resources to our members, including our STEM SmartBrief.

While membership in the Engineering and Technology Education Division is open to all ACTE members, the professional learning, networking and resources offered by this Division will be most relevant to CTE professionals who work with the following Career Clusters:

• Digital Technology Cluster
• Arts, Entertainment & Design Cluster
• Advanced Manufacturing Cluster (Engineering and Robotics Sub-clusters)

Educators who prepare students for some career fields under the Construction Cluster (Architecture & Civil Engineering Sub-cluster) and Healthcare & Human Services Cluster (Biotechnology Research & Development and Health Data & Administration Sub-clusters) may also find valuable content in this Division.

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From our humble beginnings as manual arts in the Imperial Locomotive Works, to the Boston Manual Arts High School (now MIT), to our prominent place in the Morrill Act of 1862, manual arts, now engineering/technology education, has provided both career exploration and technical skill development for its students. The ETED strives to serve all of the secondary engineering and technology education profession whether the subject content that is taught is construction, communications, manufacturing, power and energy, transportation or pre-engineering.

Join your colleagues! Join the Engineering and Technology Education Division today and benefit from the professional development opportunities and national advocacy that will be afforded you. You can count on receiving an outstanding return on your investment. Additionally, the ETED encourages you to get involved with your division. Contact the ETED vice-president or any of the ETED Policy Committee members to discuss the opportunities available for you to serve.

The ETED seeks to work with all professional associations in the engineering and technology education arena to advance the discipline. This is accomplished through active participation by the division’s members in fellow associations and by the partnerships formed by the ETED leadership with other professional organizations.