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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

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Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University

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final tests and revisions. Day 10: Design Challenge - Conference How do engineers share their ideas through speaking and writing? Groups prepare for and engage in a conference-style share-out, where they present their designs and design process with peers from other classes, school administration, and parents. Design Brief Design Task: You are working as engineers to design a playground structure that would be fun and safe for all children, including children who use wheelchairs. Criteria: Playground equipment MUST be: Constraints: The playground equipment, ● Sized for ● Functional ● Must fit on the cardboard square given. wheelchair ● Fun

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 12

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Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University; Jorge Americo Acosta Feliz

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also affirming the imperative for educators to recognize thediversity of Latinx communities and to develop partnerships that foreground local communityknowledges and resources. Funds of Knowledge and TranslanguagingAlthough the aforementioned previous descriptions of funds of knowledge did not addressmultilingualism, other writings by Moll foregrounded the role of bilingualism as a vital resourcein learning for many Latinx youth.16 If schools and educators embrace the ethical imperative tosustain rather than erase minoritized students’ home cultures, then sustaining home languages isvital to education in a democracy.17 Accordingly, translanguaging has gained prominence as animportant approach across academic

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Kaylee Andree Wersant, University of Texas at El Paso; Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Irma Y. Torres-Catanach, University of Texas at El Paso; Karla Alejandra Ayala, University of Texas at El Paso; Nora Cuvelier, University of Texas at El Paso; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Victor Manuel Garcia Jr., University of Texas at El Paso

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technical presentations. The educational activities and technical presentation weredeveloped to cover several topics such as financial literacy, standardized testing, resume writing,and time management. Pre-college students also participated in individual mentoring sessions toallow for a one-on-one learning environment. Online surveys were formulated and distributed tothe participants at different stages of the STEM Education Workshop during the summer of 2020.The information collected was preliminarily analyzed to generate conclusions about the STEMEducation Workshop and draw recommendations to improve the material content, presentationmethods and communication technology for use in upcoming STEM Education Workshops.IntroductionSchools and

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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Amanda M. Gunning, Mercy College; Meghan E. Marrero, Mercy College; Kristen V. Larson, Mercy College

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collaborative notes [44], [46] Throughout the finalstages of analysis, the team reviewed collective comments to categorize codes and consideroverarching themes [44], [46]. These themes resulted in the findings described below.Triangulation and rigor were ensured through the use of varied data sources that capturedwritten, spoken, and performed moments in the process of professional development through thetwo courses [44]. Rigor was further established through prolonged engagement with theparticipants which allowed for continuous conversations, member checking, and peer debriefingalong the process of analysis and writing [45]. This participatory research approach amplified theparticipating teachers’ voices and created the space for an iterative process

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

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Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Heather Kaplan, University of Texas El Paso

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with paint that allowed students todraw and write on the wall’s surface. The approach to the makerspace design supported theReggio Emilia philosophy that the environment benefits the learning experience. Further, thesespaces can provide a feeling of belongingness for students, as has been the case in makerspacesat the university level. [11][12] For this paper, we begin with one of the stories shared with the kindergarten students,Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds. This fictional text was read and discussed as a preliminaryactivity to provide a problem for students to think about followed by students’ designs of asolution to the problem (the Youtube read aloud may be found here:https://youtu.be/NJnIEbVLq90 ). The crux of the problem is

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 9

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Morgan R. Broberg, Purdue University; Susan Khalifah P.E., S.E., Purdue University; Abhinav Gupta, Purdue University; Abdullah J. Nafakh, Purdue University

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issuing online polling solutionsto encourage participation and putting learners in permanent groups to help combat feelings ofisolation. Altogether, these techniques led learners to engage with civil engineering topics,fostering interest and growing their knowledge of the topic, while meeting the required rigor ofthe university classroom.IntroductionHigh school students are increasingly interested in exploring engineering disciplines beforecollege enrollment. These opportunities give students the ability to interact with engineeringeducators, understand the academic rigor, and meet peers in their area of interest. Students findthese opportunities in traditional high school classes, after school programs, and summerprograms held at colleges and

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

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Latanya Robinson, Florida International University; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Candice Guy-Gaytán, BSCS Science Learning; Joshua Alexander Ellis, Florida International University

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and solution for the mass of mixture/solution3 Students drawing their own Determining the filtration devices concentration of a solution4 Providing labels and Determining Writing numerical expression measurements for filtration saturation of a for saturation devices solution5-6 Students give feedback and Materials that receive feedback from peers filter out bacteria on their drawings7-8 Students design and evaluate Deriving flow rate ratio for their filtration devices selected materials in the

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 5

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Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University; Megan O'Donnell, Arizona State University; Kristi Lynn Eustice, Arizona State University; Carolyn Aitken Nichol, Rice University; Kristen Jaskie, Arizona State University; Andreas S. Spanias, Arizona State University; Kimberly Farnsworth, Indiana University-Bloomington; Jennifer M. Blain Christen, Arizona State University; Mi Yeon Lee, Arizona State University

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UndergraduateInstitution (PUI) partner, Lafayette College. The program has resulted in a newly developed five-week course with asynchronous elements in a Learning Management System (LMS) and weeklysynchronous components via Video Conferencing (VC). Each weekly module in the LMSfocused on a different theme: 1) Program Orientation, 2) Conducting CenterResearch/Curriculum Development, 3) Engineering Education Standards/ Developing aProblem-based Engineering Lesson, 4) Adapting Engineering Lessons for Remote/OnlineTeaching, and 5) Presenting and Writing about Scientific Research (see Table 1 for detailedprogram agenda).Table 1. CBBG Hybrid RET Program Week Topics Asynchronous (LMS) Synchronous (VC) Program

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 3

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Sabina A. Schill, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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faculty than those without faculty mentors [5].However, undergraduates themselves may participate as mentors in other contexts, such as in K-12 STEM outreach programs.Few studies have specifically examined benefits to undergraduate student mentors. Surveys byMonk et al. [14] found that mentors improved their science communication skills and foundmentoring high school students to be a rewarding experience. Lim et al. [6] corroborated theseresults, finding that undergraduate peer mentors gained interpersonal and teaching skills. Arecent study by Huvard et al. [16] examined undergraduate mentors across peer inreach and K-12outreach programs, and found that in both programs, mentors “demonstrated evidence ofstrengthened metacognition and science

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Manuel Alejandro Figueroa, The College of New Jersey; Jamie N. Mikeska, Educational Testing Service; Matthew S. Taylor, The College of New Jersey

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two thirds or more of the instances ofeach feature in the teacher’s discussion transcript, they also associated non-examples with eachfeature (i.e., “over-coding” for the feature). Most especially, participants over-coded instancesfor Feature 1, linking many quotes to this feature even though the quotes did not encouragestudents to engage other teams about their designs; this finding was also evident in thesynchronous discussion. In the Identifying Strategies assignment, PSTs collectively identified atotal of 15 strategies that the teachers used with respect to the three features. The most frequentlymentioned strategies for each feature were: having students call on a peer for critique orfeedback (Feature 1), posing questions about whether

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

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Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Rong Su, University of Iowa

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explored peer-reviewed journal publications on P-12 engineering education from2000-2015 across five large periodical databases (PsycInfo, EBSCO Full text/ERIC, Scopus,Professional Development Collection, EBSCO Education source. Since we are interested in themeasures of students’ affective views with respect to engineering focused interventions, wemodified the search criteria to include terms such as interests, attitudes, self-efficacy, identity,motivation, and aspirations. These affective views were chosen as areas of concentrationbecause they are the most commonly used as measures that, if increased, would predict a higherlikelihood of students pursuing engineering. With the additional search terms for students’affective views, we repeated search

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Kenechukwu Churchill Mbanisi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Purvi Shah, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gbetonmasse B. Somasse, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Dhvani Gangadia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Walter Towner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Torbjorn S. Bergstrom, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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involved writing aprogram to automate the cube stacking task performed TABLE 1manually in the previous week. In the subsequent weeks, to ensure that students build intuition about howcobots are used in manufacturing, two practical projects were formulated with strong relevance to real-world manufacturing processes: (1) automated part assembly and (2) machine tending. i) Automated part assembly: The manufacturing process of all sorts of items/equipment involves one ormore steps of part assembly. The use of robots enables the automation of this labor-intensive, repetitive,and oftentimes, dangerous process. In this project, students were tasked to develop a LEGO vehicle (truck)assembly station (see Fig. 1). With the

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 13

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Amber Simpson, State University of New York at Binghamton; Jing Yang, Indiana University Bloomington ; Peter N. Knox, Binghamton University (State University of New York); Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University-Bloomington

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ultimately, the project. This is similar to Sadker and Zimmerman’s [8] spectrum between amentor parent and a peer parent, a caregiver that is focused on the child’s learning process to acaregiver that is motivated by the successful completion of the project, respectively. Similar to[8], we would argue that Mac’s roles were enacted in order to leverage the strengths, needs, andabilities of Walt through the different stages of the engineering design process. Through thecaregiver-child relationship, Mac has an awareness of Walt’s trigger points (e.g., spellingerrors/writing, use of the word challenge), which we acknowledge as shaping the multiple andshifting roles of Mac.In February, Mac and Walt spent their time brainstorming possible solutions, as

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 9

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Kai Jun Chew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., E4S, LLC

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develop the skills and writing habits to complete doctorate degrees in engineering. Across all of her research avenues, Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 12 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award with her share of funding be ingnearly $2.3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 21 journal publications and more than 70 conference papers. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty, an Outstanding Teacher Award and a Faculty Fellow Award. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Cheryl Carrico

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 3

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Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; James Edward Lamberth III, Enloe High School; Evelyn L. Baldwin, Wake STEM Early College High School

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protocols and guidelines for students working athome. During in-person instruction, it is straightforward to model proper safety protocols andmonitor students to ensure compliance. For example, reminding students to wear safety glasseswhen soldering, or to disconnect a circuit from the power source when changing components.Several adjustments had to be made to minimize risk for at-home electronics work. First, weremoved the requirement of soldering from the projects. Students were provided with “plug-and-play” solutions such as solderless breadboards and jumper wires. Circuit safety instructions wereprovided to participants in writing, and students were asked not to begin working with their kitmaterials until proper technique was taught and modeled

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Manuel Alejandro Figueroa, The College of New Jersey; Jamie Mikeska; Matthew Scott Taylor

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improvementideas without significant input from the teacher or peers outside of the team. This point in theprocess—after this internal teamwork yet prior to the team’s formal development of a subsequentplan—is a space in which teachers can facilitate a whole class discussion to enable teams to learnfrom one another and perhaps revise their initial ideas about design performance andimprovement [22]. This provides an opportunity for the teacher to help students move away frombeginning designer and towards informed designer behaviors (e.g., from making changes that donot focus on problematic areas toward making changes that do) [21]. It also enables the teacherto facilitate discussions about diagnostic troubleshooting, identifying design failures

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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Melissa A. Dagley, University of Central Florida; Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida; Hyoung Jin Cho, University of Central Florida; Eleazar Vasquez

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and networking as well as teaching basics in Java programming language and hands-on exercises on Raspberry Pi.4. The Mobile Programming (1.5 weeks) covered mobile operating systems and hands-on experiences on writing Android programs accessing the web. Figure 3: Overview of RET Site: CoMET ProgramSelected module highlights. In the Design and Fabrication of Environmental Sensors Module, ateam of teachers from middle and high schools participated in the design, fabrication andcharacterization of electrochemical sensors that can be used for water quality monitoring. Inorder to establish the knowledge basis for their activities, a faculty mentor provided a series ofshort course lectures each day before teachers

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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Matthew Perkins Coppola, Purdue University Fort Wayne

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examines the self-reported reflections of121 preservice elementary teachers after participating in an exemplar lesson, then writing andteaching a modified or original engineering design lesson (an “Engineering Mini Unit”) to K-6students as part of their school-based field experience. The first section of this paper highlightsthe research done on the needs of preservice elementary teachers. Next, the paper describes thecontext in which the preservice teachers learned about engineering design through first-handparticipation in engineering design and the teaching of an engineering design lesson. Then thepaper examines the qualitative approach to analyzing the preservice teachers’ responses to fourquestions constructed to help them reflect on their

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

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Samuel Douglas Bast; Trinity Borland, Wartburg College; Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College; Cristian Gerardo Allen, Wartburg College; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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CollectionStudents’ Pre and Post SurveysOn the first day of the engineering camp, the students completed a pre-survey that includeddemographic information and the STEM-CIS (Career Interest Survey) based on the work of Kier,Blanchard, Osborne, & Albert [9]. The STEM-CIS consisted of 44 questions that took the formof a 5-point Likert scale from ‘Strongly Agree’ to ‘Strongly Disagree’. The 44 questions weredivided up into four sets of 11 questions based on the four areas of STEM. An example questionwas “I am interested in careers that involve engineering”.Based on the work of Talton and Simpson [10], four more questions were in the pre-survey in theform of a 5-point Likert scale that looked into peer perceptions of science. An example questionwas, “My best

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 8

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Emily Anna Dare, Florida International University; Benny Mart Reblando Hiwatig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Khomson Keratithamkul, University of Minnesota; Joshua Alexander Ellis, Florida International University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Elizabeth A. Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University; Mark Rouleau, Michigan Technological University ; Farah Faruqi, University of Minnesota Twin cities; Corbin Rice; Preethi Titu, Kennesaw State University; Feng Li, Florida International University; Jeanna R. Wieselmann, Southern Methodist University; Elizabeth A Crotty, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

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, student- centered online learning environments for educators.Dr. Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Dr. Roehrig is a professor of STEM Education at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores issues of professional development for K-12 science teachers, with a focus on beginning teachers and implementation of integrated STEM learning environments. She has received over $30 million in federal and state grants and published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is a former board member of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching and past president of the Association for Science Teacher Education.Dr. Elizabeth A. Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University