Paper ID #34912Adapting Soft Robotics Outreach to Teacher-Delivered Curriculum in theVirtual Classroom (Work in Progress)Ms. Sapna Shah, Harvard UniversityMr. Alex Beaudette, Harvard UniversityMr. David R. Bergandine, University of Illinois Laboratory High School Chemistry Teacher University Laboratory High School 1984 - 2021Savindi N. Devmal , University of Illinois Laboratory High School Savindi Devmal is a student at the University Laboratory High School in Urbana, IL. Savindi’s interests include bioengineering and soft robotics, and she is the recipient of the Barbara Lazarus award to develop bioprinters for soft
, Undergraduate Programs (IBBME) and the Associate Chair, Foundation Years (Division of Engineering Science), she is currently the faculty advisor for the Discovery Educational Program. Dawn is a recipient of the 2017 U of T Early Career Teaching Award and was named the 2016 Wighton Fellow for excellence in development and teaching of laboratory-based courses in Canadian UG engineering programs. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Discovery: Transition of an inquiry-focused learning program to a virtual platform during the COVID-19 pandemic (Evaluation)AbstractThe shift to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has presented teachers
educators from schools with higher needs, suchas larger number of at-risk students or higher drop-out rates. After completing safety training and receiving basic information about lithography,laboratory tools’ use and scientific background of their projects, teachers start their research asmembers of a faculty research group, mentored by a trained graduate student. At the end of theprogram, teachers are expected to prepare and present a scientific poster to summarize theirresearch and a lesson plan that will be implemented during the following school year and submittedto the website Teach Engineering [22]. The lesson plan presentation always registers highattendance from NASCENT faculty and staff, administrators and teachers from the school
students gain an understanding of the different fields of engineering thatcan be studied in order to be part of the transportation workforce; that is, how other engineering fields arerelated to transportation, not only Civil Engineering.Hands-On Laboratory Experiments The goal of the hands-on laboratory and experimental sessions is to provide students with a fun,interactive learning environment in which they can discover different aspects of transportation engineering.All the hands-on sessions are designed so that the students are engaged in the session through building orconducting an experiment. A session related to building and testing a bottle rocket is one example of suchactivities. In this session (Build a Bottle Rocket), the
the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). Prior to joining ASU he was a graduate student research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Dr. Jumoke ’Kemi’ Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University Dr. J. ’Kemi Ladeji-Osias is Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Dr. Ladeji-Osias earned a B.S. in electrical engi- neering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a joint Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University and UMDNJ. Dr. Ladeji-Osias’ involvement in engineering curricular innovations includes adapting portal laboratory instrumentation into experiments from multiple STEM
Program for High School Students. The course was open for rising highschool juniors and seniors. This class was designed to have approximately six hours a day ofstudent-instructor facetime over the five-day week. This instructional time included traditionallectures as well as field trips, laboratory experiments, and active learning activities. The homebase for the course was an active learning classroom with features such as pod seating, movabletables, and whiteboards. Additionally, the intention was for students to visit various campuslocations, view and participate in laboratory experiments, and learn more about the life of aresidential student.Initially, the course development focused on understanding the student population of the class;high
Paper ID #34559Computer Science and Computational Thinking Across the Early Elemen-taryCurriculum (Work in Progress)Dr. Kenneth Berry, Southern Methodist University Dr. Kenneth Berry is the Associate STEM Director at the Caruth Institute in the Lyle School of Engi- neering at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He has worked as an education specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until he received his doctorate in Educational Technology in 2001. He then taught at the Michael D. Eisner School of Education at California State University at Northridge (CSUN). In 2009, he moved to Texas to work at the Science and
has grown to serve over 720 participants each summer with multiple one-weekfully residential and virtual sessions. Funding support from industries such as NorthropGrumman, Raytheon, and Boeing has increased allowing EPIC to serve more low-incomeparticipants.Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, when most universities simply shut down theirengineering summer pre-college programs, EPIC swiftly changed its programming to a fullyvirtual program and served over 400 participants. EPIC created a new curriculum, activities,training, and planned on how to solve issues such as participants' ability to use school-issued orpersonal chromebooks. Intensive home-laboratory activities with mechanical, electrical, andsoftware elements were created
Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have given him an important perspective and exposure to the industry. He has been directly involved in at least 20 different engineering projects related to a wide range of industries from the petroleum and natural gas industry to brewing and newspaper industries. Dr. Ayala has provided service to professional organizations such as ASME. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Committee of Spanish Translation of ASME Codes and the ASME Subcommittee on Piping and Pipelines in Spanish. Under both member- ships, the following Codes have been translated: ASME B31.3, ASME B31.8S, ASME
- and transdisciplinary experiences relevant to the currenttechnical development. More specifically, this program provided three main objectives,including: (1) providing transdisciplinary engineering design experiences relevant to cutting edgetechnical development for teachers; (2) developing teacher-driven lesson plans that could beimplemented in the classroom, and (3) disseminating results and developed materials to helpteachers in the region and beyond.In this RET site program, teachers rotated to four different research laboratories with a 1.5-to-3-week duration in each at the University of Central Florida (UCF) campus under the guidance offaculty mentors, graduate students and, in some cases, even undergraduate NSF REUparticipants [4]. In
laboratories,conduct hands-on experiments, engage in engineering skill building activities, and collaborate ona daily basis. The program was based in teamwork, both for the WDC where a student team anda teacher team worked together to create their wearable device, and in the labs where student-teacher pairs worked on independent research projects under the direction of a graduate studentand faculty advisor. Implementation details and results of these established programs have beenpreviously reported [1] [2].During summer 2020, due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person campsand activities were cancelled, and even research laboratories shut down in-person activities for aperiod of time. The situation, while making it impossible
, Florida International University Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He then completed a master’s degree in engineering management at George Washington University in 2007. In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in the Minority and Urban Education Unit of the Col- lege of Education at the University of Maryland. Bruk worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he focused on nanotechnology, from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 he left JHU/APL for a fellowship with the National Academies where he conducted research on methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. After a brief stint teaching mathematics in Baltimore City
manufacturing jobs” as a main reason for the problem.Relatedly, [3] has set forth the goal of attracting and growing tomorrow’s manufacturingworkforce through STEM-focused education programs and industry-education partnerships.The related educational programs are often connected to learning environments that havebeen created to engage students in making, tinkering, programming, and honing other skillsrelevant to tomorrow’s workforce while exploring related career pathways [4]. These learningenvironments are typically referred to as STEM labs (laboratories) and/or makerspaces [5].However, programs like these often focus on upper-secondary students, and can fail toaddress career misperceptions, especially early on when career interests are
Paper ID #34262Middle School Capstone Engineering Projects (Work in Progress)Dr. Kenneth Berry, Southern Methodist University Dr. Kenneth Berry is a Research Professor at the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education (CIEE) in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He has worked as an education specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until he received his doctorate in Educational Technology in 2001. He then taught at the Michael D. Eisner School of Education at California State University at Northridge (CSUN). In 2009, he moved to Texas to work at the Science and Engineering Education
presentations in these research topics. He is currently a research associate of the Yes SHE Can program sponsored by the US Department of Education, and the H-AGEP program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. His research interests are in the areas of transportation infrastructure and pavement materials, civil engineering applications in Smart Cities, advancement of STEM education, and career opportunities for underrepresented minority groups. Upon graduation, he will continue his professional career as a civil engineer and researcher at the Airfield and Pavements Branch of the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory from the US Department of Defense. American c
senior economist statistician at the Central Bank of West African States. He also served as a consultant for the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and the UNDP.Miss Dhvani Gangadia, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteProf. Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Michael A. Gennert is Professor of Robotics Engineering, CS, and ECE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads the WPI Humanoid Robotics Laboratory and was Founding Director of the Robotics Engineering Program. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the University of California Riverside, PAR Technology Corporation, and General Electric. He received the S.B. in CS, S.B. in EE, and S.M. in EECS in 1980 and the Sc.D. in
University and was elected to Sigma Xi. Her research was conducted at the Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. She received bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. She holds three US patents. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 An Engineering Design Approach to Study and Strengthen a Teacher Preparation Program in STEM at the Secondary Level (Work in Progress)Introduction A study about the Teacher Preparation Program (TPP) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) was conducted to examine the barriers of its graduates from entering the classroom
knowledge. For instance, we asked teachers how they were able to identify thosemoments when students would access their funds of knowledge. Maria responded that “it’susually during classroom discussion, when we open it up to the whole class, and I ask them toshare out” these moments were depicted in our conversation with Jessica. She commentedthat, “[...] This rocket project that we’ve been working on, there was a kid that told me all about how he went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and saw [...] different space hubs. And the Apollo spacecraft was there. And he used that when he was trying to think of how he was going to design his rocket [...].In this excerpt, Jessica talks about one of the students drawing from his
years. Yalvac’s research is in STEM education, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Dr. Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Dis- tribution at Texas A&M University. He also serves as Associate Dean for Inclusion and Faculty Success in the College of Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product de- velopment engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Mas
Credentials for 21st- Century Emerging Tech Careers,” In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 2020, Waynesville, NC, USA. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/215853/.[5] National Institute of Standards and Technology. Cloud Computing. Information Technology Laboratory. June 2020. https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cloud-computing.[6] M. Hendon and L. Powel. “Activity based learning for cloud computing,” Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2020, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 176-185.[7] D. Foster, L. White, J. Adams, D. C. Erdil, H. Hyman, S. Kurkovsky, M. Sakr, M. and L. Stott. “Cloud computing: developing contemporary computer science curriculum for a cloud-first future
transition.And some were learned during the implementation of the hybrid model.PartnershipsThe value of campus-community partnerships has been well documented as an important supportin STEM outreach programs [1], [2], [3]. The partnerships formed among Angelo State University(ASU), Tom Green County Library (TGCL), and area community-based organizations provided awealth of resources which were essential to the program’s success. ASU and TGCL provided thecornerstone partnership needed to establish and build the program. While both institutions sharegoals of acquiring and disseminating knowledge, they have very different characters. Angelo Stateprovides technical expertise within STEM fields and extensive laboratories. However, many of itsresources are
current role in education research focuses on training informal STEM facilitators and engaging visitors in the practices of science and engineering. He is the principal investigator on two collaborative NSF grants and one sub-award with UC Santa Barbara, where he is also pursuing doctoral work in education research. Skinner’s science research experience includes marine science fieldwork along the Northern California coast; plasma physics research at the University of California, Irvine; and nanotechnology research at Sandia National Laboratory. He gained practical engineering experience as a patent reviewer for Lenker Engineering and a software engineer for both Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Visual Solutions
extremely severe, limiting regular citizens'movement and confining them to remain at home, only allowing them to get out for "essential "activities.STEM-STEAM education, based on collaborative work, inquiry, experimentation, problem-solving, and project generation, encounters many obstacles. In the present situation, studentsand teachers' isolation does not have access to laboratories, materials, and other essentialsupplies to facilitate a quality educational process.Aware of these limitations, a group of professionals from several countries across the Americashave worked together and developed the ManifiestoSTEAM. The ManifiestoSTEAM is a voluntaryteam working without any monetary support. The ManifiestoSTEAM goal is to develop alternativeways to
teachers tobe able to develop understanding of BID and its integration into engineering design process togauge students’ interest to utilize natural world elements as inspiration for their design, and toimplement BID focused high school engineering courses.The first PL for the project was planned for Summer 2020. Our original idea was to provide thefirst PL experience for the participating teachers as part of six-week-long summer internships inperson at the university research laboratories focused on biology and bio-inspired design. Thegoal of these internships is to improve engineering teachers’ knowledge of bio-inspired designby partnering with cutting-edge engineers and scientists to study animal features and behaviorsand their applications to
. Basic concepts of chemistry including the different branches of chemistry. b. The periodic table, and the role & importance of different elements in the human body. 2. Showing students: a. The positive aspects of learning and understanding chemistry. b. The broad scope of cosmetic chemistry, the role of a cosmetic chemist in a cosmetic industry, and the criteria to be a cosmetic chemist. 3. Develop students’ skills in handling chemicals & working in a laboratory.(6) HomeLion SecurityThe HomeLion Security portion of the camp curriculum from cyber.org was used to introduce theconcepts of research and analysis, critical thinking, teamwork and written and oral communicationwhich are
. Basic concepts of chemistry including the different branches of chemistry. b. The periodic table, and the role & importance of different elements in the human body. 2. Showing students: a. The positive aspects of learning and understanding chemistry. b. The broad scope of cosmetic chemistry, the role of a cosmetic chemist in a cosmetic industry, and the criteria to be a cosmetic chemist. 3. Develop students’ skills in handling chemicals & working in a laboratory.(6) HomeLion SecurityThe HomeLion Security portion of the camp curriculum from cyber.org was used to introduce theconcepts of research and analysis, critical thinking, teamwork and written and oral communicationwhich are