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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Laura Lee Lang NBCT, Sauk Prairie High School

aproblem, they need to establish the specifications for the device, provide detailedinstructions for construction, and determine appropriate methods to evaluate the finalproduct. Laura Lang, former chemical engineer and current physics teacher oftraditional high school, Advanced Placement, and college students, will describe howher Advanced Placement Physics students have used engineering practices to designdevices during laboratory activities. Participants will have an opportunity to use some ofthose engineering practices to design their own devices to solve a specific problem.Laura will share her ideas for other engineering challenges that can be used inchemistry, biology, and Earth science classes, and then participants will brainstorm tocreate

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Mohamad Musavi, University of Maine; Cary Edward James, Bangor High School; Ali Abedi, University of Maine

high school have the opportunity to collaborate and further learn from the presenting teamand in follow up communications and meetings. B. Sensor Network for Data collection (Module 1) 1. Engineering Design of Stationary Data Collection UnitsWith the guidance of the University of Mainefaculty from the Laboratory for SurfaceScience and Technology (LASST) and theSenator George J. Mitchell Center forEnvironmental and Watershed Research,graduate and undergraduate students havedesigned, built, and tested stationary sensorunits (Figure 2) to be placed in localcommunity waterways based on therecommendation of local water districts.After data processing using on board microcontrollers, the data will wirelessly

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Ann P McMahon, Pacific Science Center; Jacob Clark Blickenstaff Ph.D., Pacific Science Center-LASER

staff  LASER (Leadership & Assistance for Science Education Reform) is a Washington statewideeffort co-led by Pacific Science Center and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (operated byBattelle) in partnership with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). For 15years, LASER has catalyzed and supported sustainable innovation and improvement in K-12science education. LASER is accomplishing two goals: 1) to facilitate the successful adoption ofthe Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) across Washington state through professionaldevelopment and a science/engineering notebook tool to integrate NGSS and Common CoreState Standards (CCSS); and 2) to build leadership capacity for high quality STEM education inWashington