Conference Session

...by Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Kendall, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Merredith D Portsmore, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

classrooms, withcomparisons across the three grade-levels and teaching styles. The interview and classroom datawere analyzed using a framework from Ainley and Luntley designed to identify the attentionalskills of mathematics teachers responding to student thinking.12 Ainley and Luntley’s theoreticalmodel of expert teaching practice contends that proficient lesson planning or Shulman’spedagogical content knowledge,13 for example, are not the only predictors of teaching skill; inorder to characterize a teacher’s performance minute by minute in the classroom, one canexamine her practice with regard to attention-dependent knowledge, through a framework forattentional skill produced by their study (found in Table 1).According to Ainley and Luntley

Conference Session

iSTEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

://www.ncpublicschools.org/stem/. Therubrics include engineering connection rubrics which were developed by an engineering taskforce to highlight the vowel in STEM and illustrate how engineering can be used as an integratorfor STEM across the grade levels and across the curriculum.STEM Schools in Wake CountyA notable highlight of the state STEM initiative is Wake County, NC. This county, with almost150,000 students has named twenty schools to be integrated STEM schools. An additional,unknown, number have chosen to self-designate. The county has appointed a STEM advisorycommittee of school system, high education, business and industry representatives to guidepolicy and support for the implementation of these schools. The draft strategic plan for the

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Bowen Ed.D, North Dakota State University

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professional development opportunity. Two of the mostpopular externally funded programs for teachers to gain industry and research experience areScientific Work Experience Programs for Teachers (SWEPT) and Research Experiences forTeachers (RET).[3,4,12] The goals for these programs are to increase the teacher's understandingof how content knowledge is being applied in an authentic real-world setting in order to increasestudents engagement and achievement in the classroom through implementation of an authenticeducational plan. Some research studies show these types of experiences for teachers have led toan increase in student achievement for their respective students in science [5], however thedocumentation for this type of research is limited. Both of

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bette Grauer, Kansas State University; Karen L Roberts, Upward Consulting; Tom C. Roberts P.E., FASEE, FNSPE, Kansas State University; Gary A. Clark, Kansas State University; Amy Rachel Betz, Kansas State University

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students and teachers through the fields of chemistry, human ecology, gifted education, and central administration. She has facilitated programming in Science Olympiad, USFIRST, Engineering & Science Summer Institute (ESSI), Odyssey of the Mind, and STEM activities with local school districts. Dr. Roberts enjoys working with K-12 teachers and providing information relevant to career exploration.Prof. Tom C. Roberts P.E., FASEE, FNSPE, Kansas State University Roberts has more than 35 years experience in planning, organizational development, and leadership train- ing programs. He worked for Black & Veatch for sixteen years, formed Upward Consulting in 1989 and has served as a learning organization and process

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary R. Mayer, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Allison Jane Fahsl, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Stephen McCaire Marlette, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Georgia Bracey, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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through a systematic process inorder to choose one. This process, typically called the engineering design process, is applicableto many complex problems, whether or not the person trying to solve them is formally anengineer6-8. To capture and present the essence of the engineering design process, a modifiedversion of the approach presented in Engineering is Elementary® 9 was used (see Figure 1). ASK IMAGINE PLAN TEST CRE ATE IMPROVE REFLECT Figure 1: Engineering Design Process Presented for the ClassroomEngineering is Elementary® (EiE) presents an iterative process of Ask, Imagine, Plan

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Tyler J Hertenstein, Ohio Northern University; Morgan Sperry; Debra Kay Gallagher, Ohio Northern University; Stacy McClelland

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withlesson plans (available in English and Spanish), tied to educational standards in the UnitedStates. Each activity is designed to be inexpensive (often less than U.S. $10 for a classroom).This program has been successfully implemented throughout the United States for over ten yearsand has seen very limited international expansion to countries with a strong IEEE presence.This paper will discuss the very successful workshops, including assessment collected at theconclusion of each workshop. The structure of the workshops and the involvement opportunitiesfor the undergraduate students who participated will also be described.This paper will be of interest to programs with available international service opportunities forundergraduate students or

Conference Session

K-12 Robotics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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JoAnn M. Marshall, Cyber Innovation Center/National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center; Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center; Geoffrey "G.B." Cazes, Cyber Innovation Center/National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center

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career has been dedicated to non-profit organizations in the form of events planning, development, grant writing, and coordinating educational activities for K-12 students.Dr. Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation CenterMr. Geoffrey ”G.B.” Cazes, Cyber Innovation Center/National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center G.B. Cazes serves as the Cyber Innovation Center’s (CIC) Vice President and Director of the CIC’s Na- tional Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC). The CIC is a 501c3 not-for-profit corpora- tion whose mission is to support the development of a knowledge-based economy throughout the region. To that end, the CIC developed NICERC to oversee its robust academic outreach and workforce devel

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debra Kay Gallagher, Ohio Northern University; Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University

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activities designed to introduce engineering concepts while specifically addressing thesestandards are introduced to the teachers along with success stories. Free and readily accessiblelesson plans are from the IEEE sponsored tryengineering.org web site, TED.com andEngineering Go For it, eGRI.com are used. The intent was to introduce and assess teacherbackground knowledge on topics that their students should see in the years just before and aftertheir grade level. Unique to this workshop is the consistent attention to specific math andscience standards addressed, as well as the use of an engineering design process as a problemsolving tool.The first year of the program culminated with a symposium, where teachers demonstrated thesuccesses from their

Conference Session

Supporting Diversity in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremy Lingle; Jessica D Gale, CEISMC Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

research. Some examples of the contexts usedfor mathematical modeling include:  Consumer Science – college planning, auto insurance risk, cell phone plan selection  Logistics – routing and planning, deployment of government emergency services Page 23.1006.2  Health Care – patient scheduling, nutritional optimization, and epidemiologyThese mathematical models are both deterministic and probabilistic. Additionally, technology isused to further provide the real world context of decision-making using mathematically-basedcritical thinking. The basis of this course is the NSF-sponsored Mathematics INstruction usingDecision Science and

Conference Session

Pre-Service Development Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Tillman, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

related activities using digital fabrication impacted (1) preservice elementaryteachers' efficacy beliefs about teaching science, and (2) their attitudes and understandingof effective approaches to integrating technology and digital fabrication into teachingscience. The research compared two intervention sections integrating digital fabricationactivities, with a third section without digital fabrication activities. Data collected foranalysis included the Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument and the preserviceelementary teachers' answers to open-response questions about technologies they plan touse in their subsequent teaching. The results indicated the importance of: (1) additionalcollaboration from educators interested in creating more

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharlene Yang, Museum of Science; Lydia Beall, Museum of Science

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science and engineering vocabulary as a way to reflect on their engineering experience and process their results. Each unit Teacher Guide provides the relevant science and engineering background information for the teacher as well as detailed lesson plans that emphasize student-centered, inquiry-based learning. Catching the Wind is an engineering unit where students use their knowledge of wind energy, creativity, and the Engineering Design Process to design blades for a windmill that will harness the wind’s energy to do work. As with all EiE units, Catching the Wind is divided into four lessons: o Lesson 1 is a storybook that features children from a variety of cultures and backgrounds and introduces

Conference Session

Outreach to K-12 Females

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ryan Smith, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Ryan Davidson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the reliability and functionality of PRISM’s integrated Moo- dle Course Management System along with expanding the library of PRISM’s proprietary tools, which include the Materials library, Lesson Plan builder and hosts of other programs. Page 23.1337.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Social Networking to Mentor 9th-grade Girls for Academic Success and Engineering Career AwarenessIntroductionEMERGE (http://www.rose-prism.org/emerge) is a tele-mentoring program to enhance bothcareer awareness

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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So Yoon Yoon, INSPIRE, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Kong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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teachers?; (d) how were teachers motivated by theengineering TPD?; and (e) what were teachers’ plans to integrate engineering into theirinstruction?II. MethodA. Teacher Professional Development in Engineering (Summer Academy)Week long (~40 hours) Summer Academies were offered by the INSPIRE on the universitycampus and at a particular school district site in south central U.S. The four stated goals for theINSPIRE’s introductory week-long academies are to prepare teachers to (a) convey a broadperspective of the nature and practice of engineering; (b) articulate the differences andsimilarities between engineering and science thinking; (c) develop a level of comfort indiscussing what engineers do and how engineers solve problems; and (d) use problem

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joyce Allen, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #7087Connecting Rural Teachers and Students to Nanoscale Science and Engineer-ing through Teacher Professional DevelopmentMrs. Joyce Allen, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Joyce Palmer Allen is the assistant education coordinator for the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) and works at the Nanotechnology Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her job includes planning, developing and implementing educational outreach programs in nanotech- nology and representing the NNIN Education and Outreach office at local and national conferences and meetings. She also helps to

Conference Session

Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelly B Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

project. Each of these lessons containslesson plans, master notes, and homework assignments. Additionally, MS PowerPoint, MSExcel, and other additional files have been added as the curriculum continues to evolve. Thethree following figures are selected examples of the lesson plans, master notes, and homework Page 23.2.7assignments. Figure 8, Figure 9, and Figure 10 show examples of portions of the Lesson Plans,Master Notes, and Homework assignments respectively. The entire physics curriculum, alongwith curricula covering other subjects, is hosted at www.NICERC.org and is accessible toregistered users. Figure 8

Conference Session

It's Elementary

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eduardo Alfonso Suescun-Florez, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Ryan Francis Cain, PS 3 The Bedford Village School; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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and investigate what others have done.(2) Imagine: students brainstorm possible solutions and choose the best one.(3) Plan: students draw diagrams and make a list of materials needed.(4) Create: students follow their plan and create a model that can be tested.(5) Improve: students recognize what works and what does not, as well as come up with different options to improve their design. Through the Fellow-teacher collaboration in four classrooms of second, third, and fourthgrades, 60 students were introduced to the field of soil mechanics and conducted theaforementioned three activities. Each activity required 90 to 135 minutes, divided into two orthree 45-minute class periods, on consecutive weeks. During the

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati; Howard E. Jackson, University of Cincinnati; Catherine Maltbie, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Connecting Academic Content to DesignProjects; and 4) Sharing Course Plans. The seminars were spread out over three months,February to April, during which the instructors were also developing their course materials.Each of the seminars included activities, discussion, and assignments that helped the instructors Page 23.1263.6to develop their SIT courses. More details of these professional development seminars arepresented next in this paper. The first seminar (February 21, 2012), titled CEEMS Vision, Goals, and Structure,facilitated by two of the Principal Investigators of the CEEMS project, began by providing adetailed explanation of challenge

Conference Session

Computational/CS Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nikunja Swain P.E., South Carolina State University; Wanda Moses, South Carolina State University; James Allen Anderson, South Carolina State University; Cynthia T Davis, SC State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

mission of STARS Alliance. SC State’s STARS SLC aims to encourage and informstudents at all levels on the various computing careers that are available to them. The following are someof the details of our SLC: Page 23.317.3 SLC Participation & OrganizationThe SLC at SC State consists of 10 computer science students and 3 computer science faculty. We meettwice a month to plan various outreach and professional development activities. The students work ingroups under the supervision of a faculty mentor. They prepare the K-12 outreach lesson plans anddeliver the lessons to the participating K-12 school

Conference Session

CEIII Wrapup

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Austin Bates Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

about the Page 23.360.2program and past research can be found at our website and in past publications4,5,6,7,8.RoboticsRobotics technology has been shown to be an effective means of engaging students inmeaningful design activities. In a study of a summer program using LEGO® MINDSTORMS®robotics, 10- to 13-year old students built submersible boats over 3.5 hours at a summer camp9.Many students let the materials drive their progress and engaged in trial and error designs,becoming frustrated during the process. Some students stayed within the problem but spent timeplanning and were able to generate designs. Some students spent time planning and

Conference Session

Engineering in K-12 Science and Mathematics Standards

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamara J Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Kristina Maruyama Tank, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Jennifer Anna Kersten, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Forster D Ntow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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. Solving engineering problems is an iterative process involving preparing, planning, and evaluating the solution at each stage including the redesign and improvement of current designs. At the K-12 level, students Complete should learn the core elements of engineering design processes and have the opportunity to Processes of apply those processes completely in realistic situations. Although design processes may be Design described in many forms, certain characteristics are fundamental. This indicator represents (POD) all of the three

Conference Session

K-5 Teacher Transformation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

determineif the two cohorts answered differently in each engineering design process concept. Yate’scorrection for continuity was used to compensate for the overestimate of the chi-square value. Ifany of the cells had a count of less than 5, a Fisher’s exact test was used instead of Chi-square.Effect size was calculated where appropriate.Table 1. Assessment rubrics Design Ask Imagine Plan Create Test Improve Time Document Concept Present in Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N response? Page 23.503.5Table 2. Description and examples of

Conference Session

iSTEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Harpeth Hall School and Vanderbilt University; Crystal Tricia Chukwurah, Duke University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as an adjoint professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, Teaching & Learning, and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University where she partners with other universities in NSF-funded research to develop the Engineering Design Process Portfolio Scoring Rubric . She ran an NSF-funded programs such as Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) for nine years. She served as the Associate Dean for Outreach in the Vanderbilt School of Engineering from 2007-2010. She established the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) engineering pathway from K-12 with Race to the Top funding in 2010-2011 and is working with the state of Tennessee on potential adoption plans for the new Next Generation Science

Conference Session

K-5 Teacher Transformation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K. Anna Douglas, Purdue University; Daphne Duncan Wiles, Purdue University, West Lafayette; So Yoon Yoon, INSPIRE, School of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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23.474.8year.Quotes from Year 2Brandy: Well, I always want them to put thought into it. I’m a big proponent of you know, “let’splan it first and look at it and then go on.” But actually putting it into those stages of the process,I saw them developing skills that I probably haven’t developed before….Really deeper thinking. Ialways wanted that, that’s my objective, but this- to break it into the parts and to see thesequence and have go into deeper thought after they planned it, and to actually take their planand look at it better or a little deeper than they normally would, and I was doing that, too. Youknow, it cause me to do that, too, and me to question in a different way- Okay, why are you doingthat? Is this going to get you where you want to go

Conference Session

Starting Them Early

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gina Navoa Svarovsky, Science Museum of Minnesota; Brianna L Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, Magnets, Module, Planned, Pressure, Right in the Angle, Right Length, Stabilize, Stabilizer, Stand on End, Standable, Stronger, Support, Teeter-Totter, Test, Tornado, Unstable, Vertical, Page 23.635.6 Wider, Wiggly . Table 2. Level of association with engineering for vocabulary terms used by dyads Low Moderate High Architecture Balance Design Base Fix

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina; Erica Pfister-Altschul, University of South Carolina

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

has given over 10,000 K-12 students and over 400 K-12 teachersan increased awareness of STEM concepts. This was accomplished by engaging 96 GK-12Fellows from STEM disciplines in public school science classrooms and after school programs.At this site, cohorts of 6-15 engineering and science graduate students were recruited each year.Each cohort of GK-12 Fellows and Teacher Partners started with an August retreat whichengaged them in team building and planning activities. Each GK-12 Fellow then spent one ortwo days each week for the academic year in a science classroom with students and teachers, Page 23.117.2involving them in supplemental hands

Conference Session

It's Elementary

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Christine Mendoza

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

are at different temperatures. • As temperature increases, more energy is added to a system. Explore Students • Energy in the • Planning and • Creativity planned and form of heat carrying out • Collaboration conducted an is thermal investigations • Communication Page

Conference Session

CEIII Wrapup

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristina Maruyama Tank, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tamara J Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Christy Pettis, University of Minnesota

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

“Juicy details Text animal homes Questioning Words” Identify Looking at Students create Introduce Build and test animals’ how habitats the animals in engineering a hamster STEM basic needs provide for the story above and the exerciseintegration animals’ with tangrams, engineering habitat trail activities Sort animals basic needs. and then create design cycle. using 3-D by Using pattern some on their Plan the geometric characteristics blocks to own. hamster shapes

Conference Session

Starting Them Early

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brianna L Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering and may need some additional training to feel comfortable usingeveryday activities to introduce engineering concepts.This work will be used to inform a study in which we plan to investigate how parent-child conversations, situated around several activities at a museum, help to developengineering interest and expertise. Additionally, the findings were used to developresources for parents.References 1. Yun, J., Cardella, M., Purzer, S., Hsu, M., & Chae, Y., (2010). “Development of the Parents' Engineering Awareness Survey (PEAS) According to the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Framework.” In the Proceedings of the 2010 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2010

Conference Session

Research Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Malinda Faber, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation; Jeni Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, NC State University; Tracey Louise Collins, North Carolina State University; Alana Unfried, North Carolina State University; LaTricia Townsend

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, and mathematics (STEM) outreach programs, and working closely with university enrollment management and data management professionals at the Friday Institute at North Carolina State University (NCSU). She works closely with both large and small NCSU outreach groups offering K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She also assists with planning, implementing, managing, and reporting of project activities which include survey development, coordination of data collection, interfacing with data managers, coor- dination of meetings and workshops for outreach providers to gather feedback, identify best practices, and disseminate findings to stakeholders. In addition, she assists with annual report writing and conference

Conference Session

Supporting Diversity in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lyndsey Alyssa Wright, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of the class filled in coloring sheetsabout the water cycle. Students were asked to identify the aquifer on their coloring sheets, andthere was a concurrent discussion about the importance of unpolluted aquifers and pure wellwater.A more complete description of the Spectroscope activity is provided in the Appendix of thispaper. Lesson plans for the remaining activities are available upon request from the first authorof this paper.Impact:This program is in its early stages of development. As such, a formal assessment program is inthe process of being developed. The future assessment plan will include evaluations of thestudents’ attitudes toward science and engineering, the knowledge development in these areasand students’ self-reports of