Gary Benenson is Project Director of City Technology, City Technology is a collaboration of the Schools of Education and Engineering at the City College of New York with ten elementary teachers who work in NYC public schools. We provide curriculum, professional development and classroom materials to support language-rich standards-based learning of science and engineering in the elementary grades. City Technology has been supported by four major National Science foundation grants, and has presented professional development workshops at national meetings of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).  Seven curriculum units and 500 supporting videos from the most recent NSF award are available on the project website at www.citytechnology.org. 

Freshman Engineering Design

Manufacturing Processes

Engineering Materials

System Modeling and Control

Computer-Aided Design (focusing on Finite Element Analysis)

Books

Benenson, G. & Neujahr, J. (2002) Designed Environments: Places, Practices and Plans. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Benenson, G. & Neujahr, J. (2002) Mapping. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Benenson, G. & Neujahr, J. (2002) Mechanisms and Other Systems. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Benenson, G. & Neujahr, J. (2002) Packaging and Other Structures. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Benenson, G. & Neujahr, J. (2002) Signs, Symbols and Codes. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Benenson, G., Neujahr, J., Iverson, B. (2002-5) Guide for Professional Developers. New York, NY: author.

Benenson, G., Ganatos, P., Ghosn, M., Jayasena, S. (1998) ECSEL Freshman Design Manual. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Book Chapter

Benenson, G., Bumbury-Camacho, A., Cannon, C., Hilton, J., Johnson, D., Martucci, B., Matias, E., Porter, J., Sloane, T. (2014). Physical Science Comes Alive! In C. Sneider (ed.) The Go-to Guide for Engineering Curricula preK-5: Choosing and Best Instruction Materials for your Students (pp 39-53). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Book Review

Benenson, G. (2006) Review of “Technology matters: Lessons to live with,” by David Nye. Science Education 90(6) Pp. 1147-1149

Refereed Articles

Wesson, R. & Benenson, G. (2015). Ready, Set, Design! ASEE Prism, Nov. 2105, p. 21.

Benenson, G., Stewart-Dawkins, S., White, G. (2012) Engineering Design of Cars and Gadgets in K-5 as Vehicle for Integrating Math, Science and Literacy.  Advances in Engineering Education 3(2), Summer 2012. Washington: American Society for Engineering Education.

Benenson, G. (2008) Technology Meets Engineering: Notes from the Ground. In Custer, R. L. and Erekson, T. L., eds., Engineering and Technology Engineering: 57^th Yearbook of the Council on Technology Teacher Education. Woodland Hills, CA: McGraw Hill-Glencoe. Pp. 204-207.

Benenson, G. (2007). Far From Home: K-12 Engineering as Engine for Equity. Selected Papers from the 18^th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. Jacksonville: Florida Community College at Jacksonville.

Benenson, G. (2006). The Upside of Upside-Down Design. Technology and Children 11(1), 4-7.

Benenson, G. & Piggott, F. (2002) Introducing Technology as a School Subject: A Collaborative Design Challenge for Educators. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 39(3), 67-87.

Benenson, G. (2001). The Unrealized Potential of Everyday Technology as a Context for Learning. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 38(7), 730-745

Benenson, G. (2001) Teachers Researching, Children Designing. Journal of Technology Education 12(2), 56-68.

Benenson, G., Diop, E., Joseph, T., Mullings, A., Riley, N., Sanchez, J., Engineering Graduates: The New Wave of Teachers, 1998 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Washington: ASEE, 1998.

Benenson, G., Neujahr, J., Seignoret, H. & Goldman, E. Encouraging Engineering Students to Become Teachers. 1997 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Washington: ASEE, 1997.

Benenson, G. Teaching Apprenticeships for Engineering Students. In 1995 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings. Washington: ASEE, 1995. (Accessible via http://fairway.ecn.purdue.edu/fre/asee/fie95/)

Benenson, G., Liaw, B., Schaefer, E. Undergraduates as Course Developers, Instructors and Evaluators: The New Manufacturing Course at CCNY. In 1995 Annual Conference Proceedings. Washington: ASEE, 1995, Pp. 2784-2788.

Benenson, G. Closing the Gap Between Teaching and Learning: Formative Evaluation in a Freshman Design Course. In Grayson, L., ed., 1994 Frontiers in Education Proceedings. Washington: ASEE, 1994, Pp. 739-743.

Benenson, G. The Digital Clock Project: Engineering  Design in the Freshman Year. In Grayson, L., ed., Proceedings of the 1993 ASEE Annual Conference. Washington: ASEE, 1993, Pp. 1971-1975.

Benenson, G. Redesigning the Wheel: Technology Education for a Sustainable Society. In Payne, C., ed., Education in the Age of Information: The Challenge of Technology. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1993. Pp. 64-80. 

Benenson, G. An Experiment in Socially Relevant, Collaborative, Active Learning. In Grayson, L., ed., Proceedings of the 1991 ASEE Annual Conference. Washington: ASEE, 1991, Pp. 1971-1975.

Benenson, G. Technology Education for a Small Planet: Keeping the Social Context in Mind.  In Grayson, L., ed., Proceedings of the 1990 ASEE Annual Conference. Washington: ASEE, 1990, Pp. 1044-1049.

Benenson, G. The Computer as a Tool for Empirical Investigation in Elementary Technical Mathematics. In Grayson, L., ed., Proceedings of the 1990 ASEE Annual Conference. Washington: ASEE, 1990, Pp. 1544-1548.

Benenson, G. Demystifying  High  Tech:  Exploring  the  Limits  of  Progress.  Proceedings of the St. Lawrence Section Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education. Binghamton, NY: SUNY Binghamton, 1989, Pp. 14A1-20—14A1-28.

Benenson, G. Learning Technology and the Scientific Method by Doing Guided Research. In Biedenbach, J., & Grayson, L., eds., 1989 Frontiers in Education Proceedings. Washington: ASEE, 1989, Pp. 280-283.

Benenson, G. Technology Education as General Education. In Biedenbach, J. and Grayson, L., eds., Proceedings of the 1989 ASEE Annual Conference, Washington: ASEE, 1989, Pp. 654-656.

Benenson, G. Using Software Engineering to Break the Programming Barrier. In Biedenbach, J., & Grayson, L., eds., 1988 Frontiers in Education Proceedings. Washington: ASEE, 1988, Pp. 394 - 398.

Benenson, G. Using Spreadsheet Software to do Math Experiments in the Classroom. In Biedenbach, J., & Grayson, L., eds., 1988 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. Washington: ASEE, 1988, Vol 2. Pp. 654 - 659.

Equity Assistance Center, Region 2, US Department of Education

New York City Department of Education

New Jersey State Department of Education

Wisconsin Center for Educational Research

Algebra Project, Inc.

National Science Foundation

Montana State University

Florida International University

Bossier Parish (LA) Schools

Plainfield (NJ) Public Schools

Utah State University

Los Angeles Unified School District

Fort Belknap Tribal College (MT)

Western Washington University

Iowa State University

Eastern Tennessee Math Science Partnership