Conference Session

Design Mental Frameworks

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the computer. Their automatondepicts them sitting at the desk in swivel chair, in front of a moving computer screen. A differentstudent created the gear automaton to show how school makes them feel. They created movinggears showing the “gears turning in the head” as they complete various courses in thecurriculum. (a) (b) Figure 6 Example projects for mini project 3 (gear automaton). ((a) – self-portrait; (b) – how school makes me feel)Figure 7 and Figure 8 show example automaton for one of the final projects. This automatondepicts a scene from the combined stories – It’s the great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and DoctorKnow-All. The scene depicts Dr. Know-All

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew Perkins Coppola, Purdue University Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

,TryEngineering.org, stem-works.com, eie.org, Pinterest, and Teachers Pay Teachers werefrequently referenced. The most common design challenges were bridges (20), boats or rafts(13), catapults or levers (11), shelters or structures (9), towers (7), cars (6), and parachutes (5).Some of the more original proposals for design challenges included fishing poles, submarines,musical instruments, and packaging for pumpkins. Each preservice elementary teacher then implemented the two EMU lessons during theirfield placement with classrooms of K-5 students, under the classroom teacher’s supervision. TheCT completed an evaluation form and electronically submitted this to the science methodsprofessor, copying the PET. Finally, the PET completed a structured