Conference Session

Bridge Programs Connecting to First-Year Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs, Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #27366Facilitating a Student-Led, Large-Scale Engineering Bridge Camp: TwelveYears of Tips from the TrenchesAdrienne Steele, Louisiana State University Adrienne Steele has 20 years experience in STEM education. Currently, Adrienne works at Louisiana State University as the Assistant Director of Student Programs and Outreach in the Chevron Center for Engineering Education. Her current responsibilities include managing a large peer mentoring program, fa- cilitating all aspects of a first year student bridge camp, assisting faculty members with outreach activities and grant proposals, and working with other

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development using Robotics Activities

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

theNGSS [34]. The urgent need for large-scale teacher PD to support schools for effective adoptionof NGSS has been highlighted recently [35]. Unfortunately, as reported in a study of NGSS-focused PD [31], participating teachers experienced significant challenges in aligning lessons tothe NGSS because of (1) limited time, materials, and curricular resources and lack of continuedsupport and (2) lack of assessments to support teacher transition away from the old sciencestandards. According to [31], incorporating the NGSS in classroom teaching and learning wasadditionally challenging because new NGSS-aligned assessments were not adopted by the schooldistricts, resulting in a mismatch between classroom instruction vs. the student learning outcomes.For