and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai, India, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Michigan State University in E. Lansing, MI. Prof. Biswas conducts research in Intelligent Systems with primary interests in hybrid modeling, sim- ulation, and analysis of complex embedded systems, and their applications to diagnosis, prognosis, and fault-adaptive control. As part of this work, he has worked on fault diagnosis and fault-adaptive control of secondary sodium cooling systems for nuclear reactors, automobile engine
Paper ID #5675Work in Progress: Brainstorming with Yo-Yos in High School Outreach: In-spiring Students’ Interest in Learning PhysicsProf. Ning Fang, Utah State University Ning Fang is an associate professor in the College of Engineering at Utah State University. He has taught a variety of engineering courses such as engineering dynamics, metal machining, and design for manufacturing. His areas of interest include computer-assisted instructional technology, curricular reform in engineering education, the modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes, and lean product design. He earned his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in
-school SettingAbstractFor both genders characteristics of effective STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, andMath) after-school programs include opportunities for youth to build competencies, form bondswith peers and staff, and participate in program decisions. After-school program characteristicsfound to foster STEM interest and persistence of girls in particular across age, race and ethnicdiversity include collaborative, hands-on activities, mentoring, parent and community support,emphasis on practical applications, and teaching of science or engineering in a more holistic andsocial context 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. In addition, programs for girls that combine hands-on activities, rolemodels, mentoring, and career
for developing communities. Page 24.755.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Innovation Center: Preparing High School Students for the 21st Century Economy by Providing Resources and Opportunities to Create Genuine Projects with Industry Partners (Work in Progress)If we want to change education and learning to make it more relevant, more effective and moreenjoyable for all involved, teachers need to be the entrepreneurial designers and re-designers ofthe systems of schools and of the schools themselves. - IDEOIntroductionWe live in a technologically-driven society
obtained a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Brown University in 1984; her graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) were both obtained from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1989. She joined the NCSU faculty in 1989 after completing her doctorate and has moved through the ranks of Assistant and Associate to Full Professor – one of only 4 African-American women in the U.S. at that rank. Her research focuses on surface and interfacial phenomena in the areas of green chemical engineering and polymers. She has served her profession as a leader in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as a member of both the Board of Directors and the Chemical Technology
introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University Veronica Burrows is Associate Director of the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology and Associate professor in the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at Arizona State University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton
AC 2007-1635: EXPERIENCE WITH AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY WORKSHOPFOR MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERSR. Mark Nelms, Auburn UniversityRegina Halpin, Program Evaluation and Assessment Page 12.712.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Experience with an Alternative Energy Workshop for Middle School Science Teachers Encouraging interest in science and engineering can begin early in the education process ifteachers have the proper training1. Discussed in this paper is an outreach activity for middleschool science teachers to provide them with the curriculum materials needed to foster students’interest in science and engineering. This
AC 2012-4502: K-CAREER DIRECTIONS FOR WOMENDr. Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University and Harpeth Hall School Stacy Klein-Gardner’s career focuses on K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, particularly as it relates to increasing interest and participation by females. Klein-Gardner serves as the Director of the Center for STEM Education for Girls at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tenn. Here, she leads professional development opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for K-12 teachers and works to identify and disseminate best practices from suc- cessful K-12, and university and corporate STEM programs for females. This center also leads
created engineering graduate fellowship and Japan research fellowship programs for the American Electronics Association, a large U.S. trade association of technology compa- nies. Her first career was as a high school teacher in Santa Clara, California and she also helped establish the Girls’ Middle School in Palo Alto, California. She serves on the Advisory Council of the University of Missouri Broader Impacts Network and is co-chair of the IISME Board of Directors. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree in Education from Stanford University
teams of middle and high school-aged students tolearn and apply the engineering design process to build Rube Goldberg-style chain reactionmachines. These summer camp programs teach real-world engineering skills, provide experiencewith systems thinking and multi-team collaboration, integrate arts and STEM, and create apathway for student to better understand careers in engineering and other science, technology,and math fields.For the Summer 2013 implementation of the summer camp programs, new content modules onenergy and anaerobic digestion were integrated into the curriculum and introduced at three highschool sites, i.e.; two in Arizona and one in Trinidad and Tobago. A total of 65 students rangingfrom ages 13 to 18 participated in the
Paper ID #10239Graduate students help to create a discovery-based and cooperative learningexperience about clean energy for high school students (curriculum exchange)Mr. Justin Michael Hutchison, University of Illinois Justin Hutchison, M.S., is currently a doctoral student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Uni- versity of Illinois. He is treasurer of the local student chapter of American Society for Engineering Edu- cation (ASEE) and a coordinator for graduate student outreach in the Civil and Environmental Graduate Student Professional Development Program. Mr. Hutchison is a National Science Foundation Graduate
for Engineering Education, 2014 Nature'Inspired.Design:.A.PictureSTEM.Curriculum.Module. (Curriculum.Exchange). Unit.Grade.Level:.3'5. Tamara.J..Moore,.Purdue.University. ...Kristina.M..Tank,.University.of.Minnesota. |"tamara@purdue.edu""|""kmtank@umn.edu"|"" https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/picturestem/" " Description of the Project The PictureSTEM Project is developing an instructional module at each grade level, K-5, which employs engineering and literary contexts to integrate science, technology, and mathematics content instruction in
, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Aran W. Glancy is a Ph.D. Candidate in STEM Education with an emphasis in Mathematics Education at the University of Minnesota. He is a former high school mathematics and physics teacher, and he has experience both using and teaching a variety of educational technologies. His research interests include mathematical modeling, computational thinking, and STEM integration. Specifically, he is interested in the ways in which integrating engineering or computer science into mathematics and science classes can support and enhance learning within and across the STEM disciplines
note faculty’s pedagogical patterns within engineering courses.Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University Heidi Diefes-Dux, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education (ENE) at Purdue University with a joint appointment in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) and a courtesy appointment in the College of Education. She is the chair of the ENE Graduate Committee and she is a member of the Teaching Academy at Purdue. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from ABE. Her research interests include open-ended problem solving, evaluation of education technology, and curriculum development
systems, but he has ongoing projects in the area of hospital patient health monitoring. He is actively engaged in K-12 outreach through several venues including Summer Ventures, high school STEM day, the NC Science Olympiad, a Math Science Partnership grant, volunteer work with a local literacy camp, Boy Scouts Robotics Merit Badge counseling, and teaching the science portion of VBS and children’s Sunday School at his local church.Dr. Zhen Zhu, East Carolina University Zhen Zhu is an assistant professor at East Carolina University. From 2010 to 2013 he was a senior research engineer and a principal investigator with the Navigation Systems Division and the Advanced Concepts and Technologies Division in Northrop Grumman
AC 2011-930: MODELING IN ELEMENTARY STEM CURRICULUMJohn C Bedward, North Carolina State University John Bedward is in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Edu- cation at NC State University. A Science Education doctoral student and graduate research assistant at the NC State Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. He received his BS/MS in Technology Education from NC State, taught middle school technology education, and led informal science investigations at the Science House in the area of photonics, a learning outreach initiative at NC State. His research inter- ests include STEM research education, scientific and technical visualization, multimodal literacy, virtual
settings. He is principal investigator of the Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project, Learning through Engineering Design and Practice (2007-2011), a National Science Foundation Award# 0737616 from the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. This project is aimed at designing, implementing, and systematically studying the impact of a middle-school engineering education program.Lisa Stapley Randall, Arizona State University Lisa Randall, MEd., is a K-12 teacher currently working with the National Science Foundation project, Learning through Engineering Design and Practice at Arizona State University. She has a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Brigham Young
AC 2010-1914: POSTER: WINDMILLS IN TRIGONOMETRY CLASSBrandon Turek-Krengel, U. of St. Thomas - St. Paul Brandon Turek-Krengel is an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering major at the University of Saint Thomas, graduating in May 2010. While attending UST he conducted research into K-12 engineering education.Scott Woelber, Edina Public Schools Scott Woelber is the K-12 Mathematics Coordinator for Edina Public Schools in Edina, MN. He has 20 years of experience in both public and private schools which includes work as a physics teacher, online statistics teacher, and mathematics teacher with classes from basic algebra through AP Calculus BC. After earning undergraduate degrees in
theirclassrooms. The focus of the engineering outreach efforts is on hands-on activities. Many suchactivities are commercially available, and some of those are used at PSB, but most of theactivities that are used are developed by individual faculty members in their particular areas ofexpertise. These include such activities as simple motors, bridge building, wind power, andmany more.As part of the effort to design these hands-on activities, an independent study course was offeredin the spring of 2009 for Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students as a technicalelective. The objective of the course was to design, build and test four hands-on activities to beused as part of the school’s K-12 outreach programs. Eight students signed up for the
Technology, 2012). The VMC collection illustrates studentlearning topics in pre-algebra, algebra, statistics, probability, geometry and calculus. NCTM (2000) also provides anational discrete mathematics standard for grades 9-12. They require a mathematics curriculum to include learningto represent problem situations using discrete structures. Additionally, NCTM (2000) provides a national counting,probability and problem solving in general. These fundamental requirements are essential for later durable college-level and industry engineering education.The paper provides results from studies of teachers and graduate students who have made use of the VMC tools andresources to explore mathematical ideas and study student learning. Research assessment
Education, 2011Engage K-12 Students in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE): Outreach with K-12 STEM Schools through ECE Project ActivitiesIntroductionThis paper discusses the set up and delivery of electrical and computer engineering(ECE) projects with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)components to inspire K-12 STEM students to pursue higher education and careers inECE. These projects form part of the “Engage K-12 students in ECE” program and aredelivered through outreach1-2 with K-12 STEM schools. The forms of outreachconsidered are (a) direct (b) extended. The focus of this paper is on the implementation ofdirect outreach. In direct outreach, the students in the K-12 school programs participatein the ECE Day event
waves and resonance that teachers and students can discoverwhile experimentally investigating retrofitting solutions for buildings subjected to earthquakes.In a NSF sponsored six-week summer Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program,university faculty and high school teachers partnered to develop lessons based on engineeringconcepts. During this program, a team of three teachers researched under the guidance of adedicated faculty and doctoral student ways to improve buildings’ resistance to earthquakes. Thegoals were two fold. First, high school teachers learned the technology and analysis toolsnecessary to implement an engineering research project. Second, they extracted from theirresearch experience, key concepts and ideas that could be
Page 26.1600.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Transformation of STEM to STEAM – How a traditionally run STEM camp incorporated the ARTS into its framework resulting in a successful STEAM Camp (Work in Progress)IntroductionSummer 2014 marked a transition from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) toSTEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS, and Math) with the incorporation of theArts into an existing informal educational model used to enhance K-12 education in an out-of-school program – a day camp experience for 60 children. This camp infused Art into engagingactivities and pointed educational modules designed to teach
)AbstractImproving the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programsin K-12 schools is a nationwide initiative. School administrators and teachers are experimentingwith innovative curricula that will engage students in STEM subjects. However, teachers andadministrators are cautious about employing new techniques due to concerns like timelimitations on lessons, the plethora of content required to be covered during the school year, andresource restraints. Therefore, it is critical that any new curricula be beneficial to all involvedparties: school administration, teachers, and students. The new curricula must reach the goal ofthe aforementioned initiative – to improve the quality of STEM education.In order to answer the
systemthat may correlate to societal shifts.Feminist activism has had pervasive influences on society, far beyond the acquisition of adesired right or privilege 5–8. I first describe how the three waves of feminism have influencedpublic school and post-secondary curriculum in British Columbia, and how those changes maycorrespond to the continuing gender gap in post-secondary education for STEM areas: science,technology, engineering and mathematics. Next, I present the analysis of four decades of studentdata collected from a comprehensive community college in British Columbia. The purpose ofthis analysis is to determine the percentage of girls who successfully completed high schoolphysics credits and to present a trending view of their career choices
research assistants, and supervised the research activities of 3 school teachers and 9 high school students Page 22.629.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Enriching K-12 Math Education Using LEGOs1. Introduction To address mathematical and scientific obstacles of any era, prize-based competitions arefrequently organized. Such competitions generate widespread interest and open multiple fronts toadvance the state of the art in science and technology. Although this strategy has a long history,it has recently regained currency as evidenced through the Millennium
AC 2011-2428: EXCHANGE - EXPERIENTIAL EARTHQUAKE ENGI-NEERING EDUCATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGHTHE CALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR MATHEMATICSAND SCIENCELelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego Lelli Van Den Einde is a Lecturer (LPSOE) in the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. Dr. Van Den Einde’s research has evolved from large-scale ex- perimentation in earthquake engineering with primary focus on reinforced concrete bridges, to research in engineering education focusing on introducing cyberinfrastructure and technology into engineering curriculum.Samuel Lee, UC San Diego Structural Engineering
that targets graduate students working in the grade 4-6 schoolenvironment. SUNRISE is a new GK-12 project aimed at partnering STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) graduate students (fellows) with school teachersfrom three different school divisions in Northern Virginia. The project builds a unique model ofcollaboration among elementary and middle schools, school division administration, and GMUto foster systemic efforts in implementing Information Technology (IT) rich STEM content-knowledge into grades 4-6 education by graduate fellows, with the potential to enhance thedelivery of science instruction and provide long term professional development for teachers. Thisis achieved by constructing a framework that provides
- tion, and computer applications of civil and environmental engineering. She is active in pre-college engi- neering outreach and improving non-motorized transportation infrastructure. Page 23.965.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Physics on the Ropes Course University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleIntroductionThere is still a large gender gap in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.In 2009, 17.7% of full-time, first-year engineering undergraduates were women.1 For example,in 2007 women earned
written a textbook on network security and is completing a second book on computer security literacy. He is director of the IT- Adventures program and oversees the cyber defense competitions hosted at ISU. His research is targeted at developing large scale attack simulation environments and is the Director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project.Andy Luse, Iowa State University Andy Luse is a Ph.D. student in business and technology specializing in management of information technology at Iowa State University. Luse received his Ph.D. in human computer interaction and computer engineering from Iowa State University in 2009. His research interests include computer and