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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 20

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Lori Caldwell, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University

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motivated and thus are likely to experience an increase inappreciation for and interest in engineering.Team DynamicsEngineers are social workers who operate in teams with various skill levels and areas ofexpertise to solve complex, ill-defined problems. Engineering educators value group projects andteamwork-based activities for a number of reasons including needs to fulfill ABET standards andto prepare students to work in industry (Borrego et al., 2013). Successful team-based instructionemploys cooperative learning and includes four aspects: positive interdependence, individualaccountability, face-to-face interaction, and self-assessment of team functioning (Woods et al.,2000). Positive interdependence refers to all team members being responsible

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Engineering Design for Elementary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Paper ID #27412Investigating Children with Autism’s Engagement in Engineering Practices:Problem Scoping (Fundamental)Ms. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests include designing informal setting for engineering learning, and promoting engineering

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Robotics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S.M. Mizanoor Rahman, New York University; Sonia Mary Chacko, New York University; Sheila Borges Rajguru, New York University; Vikram Kapila, New York University

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Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and con- trol system technology. Under a Research Experience for Teachers Site, a DR K-12 project, and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six phil- anthropic foundations, he has conducted significant K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach activities to integrate engineering concepts in science classrooms and labs of dozens of New York

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Professional Development for Teachers and Counselors

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard A. Gearns, Stony Brook University; Angela M. Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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training for teachers. Project Lead the Way, for example, allows schools to offer engineeringexperiences through design courses in a variety of disciplines [26]. University-based K-12outreach programs have also shown promise in promoting engineering knowledge, self-efficacy,and interest [27]-[30]. It must be understood that, by necessity, knowledge of these standards andprograms must be communicated to school counselors to increase student awareness andaccessibility. Schools advocating for these programs have indicated their commitment to studentpreparation for STEM careers and school personnel should understand the mechanisms by whichthese programs do so.Research questions. This pilot, ongoing research explores the following overarching

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Elementary Students: Computational Thinking, Reasoning, and Troubleshooting

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emilie A. Siverling, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Elizabeth Suazo-Flores; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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students discuss when they use EBR. One initialexploration of student discussions demonstrated that students were able to use unit-based scienceand mathematics content during EBR [20]. However, there has not yet been research aboutwhether and how all four STEM disciplines are represented in students’ EBR. Thus, the purposeof this study is to do an initial exploration about the variety of STEM content that a team ofstudents discussed when they practiced EBR. Specifically, in this project, we are interested inanswering the following research question: While generating and justifying solutions to anengineering design problem in an engineering design-based STEM integration unit, what STEMcontent does a team of elementary school students discuss

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PCEE Resource Exchange

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyssa Marie Eggersgluss, Playful Learning Lab; Rachel Farah, University of St. Thomas; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas; Esmée Verschoor, Playful Learning Lab

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Chordsuses a computer program called Processingto run Code and Chords modules. Thesemodules can all be accessed on Github.Modules were meant to be interactive forusers, giving space to change the code and,in turn, change the presenting visual.2.) “takes in audio”: Code and Chords software can take in audio from one or more audioinputs. In our workshops, this often means singing into attached microphones that areconnected to a soundboard and then to a main laptop to be projected for a group. Itcould mean anything from singing into a laptop microphone to using many attachedmicrophones to connecting MIDI instruments.3.) “creates a real time visual display”: As the audio is being interpreted by Processing, itpresents itself on your laptop as a changing

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Underrepresented Populations

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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., silentreading time, mathematics worksheets, etc.). However, these engineering interventions may notbe sufficiently appealing to students’ personal interests and resulting in a sustained, persistentpursuit of engineering.This paper presents pilot results from administering the Fit of Personal Interests and Perceptionsof Engineering Survey (F-PIPES) across 16 National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) workshop sites as part of a larger project. Thepilot included a survey of the 3rd-5th grade students’ personal interests as mapped to the sixdimensions of interests in Holland’s Career Theory (1997)—realistic, investigative, artistic,social, enterprising, and conventional. The students then took a survey

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 16

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Camille Msall, Northwestern University; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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utilize a shape sorter – place a round-shaped piece into a round-shaped hole. The secondstage focuses on projective spatial ability and is often acquired by children by the time they areadolescences for objects they are familiar with. For this stage, a child should be able to visualizethree-dimensional objects and perceive what they will look like from different viewpoints. Thespatial curriculum in this study aims to fully develop students at this second stage and start layingthe foundational work for the third and final stage of development – combined measurement andprojective skills. An example of the skills acquired in the final stage is the ability to determinewhat size container to use for leftover food or estimating the distance traveled

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 13

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Perihan Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Stephanie L. Wendt, Tennessee Tech University; Jeremy Wendt, Tennessee Tech University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University

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due to the complexity of designing, time management,and money constraints. 3D pens offer a lower cost alternative that provide immediate gratification for users. Inthis project, instructors demonstrate how 3D pens can be used to teach biomedical engineering in middleschool classrooms.This STEM lesson will use hands-on/minds-on materials while walking students through the EngineeringDesign Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve (Museum of Science Boston, 2020). During the unit, thestudents integrate each of the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) in a fun andaccessible way by using 3D pens to create models. LEARNING GOALS: Students will effectively design and construct a prototype prosthesis using a 3D pen

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Nicolas Leo Fuchs, Northeastern University; Emily Chernich; Brittany Fung, Northeastern University

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middle school students; Liaison, StepUP Imitative, coordinate Northeast- ern University’s involvement with the StepUP initiative, a partnership effort between five universities and eleven Boston Public Schools; Project Director, IMPACT New England: A Regional Curriculum Imple- mentation Effort, coordinated program development and implementation; Seminar Leader, Northeastern University School of Education, facilitated a group of students participating in the Introduction to Educa- tion course; Project Support Liaison, Teacher Innovation program, provided support to teachers/schools in the development and implementation of Teacher Innovation Programs (TIP), provided technical assistance to teachers through the proposal

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 9

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Chidubem Nuela Enebechi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Liesl Klein, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sydney Taylor Serban, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Demographics and Career Perceptions of Manufacturing (Work in Progress) Introduction While manufacturing continues to be considered the backbone of economic growth in theUnited States (Nadine & Gielczyk, 2018), manufacturers continue to express concerns related tothe availability of a skilled workforce to fill the projected workforce demands—3.5 millionavailable manufacturing jobs by the year 2025 (The Manufacturing Institute & Deloitte, 2015).The 2018 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute revealed that manufacturingexecutives believe there to be three main factors contributing to this concern: (1) the retirementof the baby boomer population, (2) the shifting

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 18

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Alyssa Marie Eggersgluss, Playful Learning Lab; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas; Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Rachel Farah, University of St. Thomas; Cullen Charles Kittams, Playful Learning Lab; Emma Michelle Monson, University of St. Thomas; Krista Schumacher, University of St. Thomas; Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas

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. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Code + Chords: Targeting Self-Efficacy in Music Technology (Work in Progress)AbstractPrimary school students can benefit from feeling capable and confident that they could succeed incomputer engineering. This study used music and creation-based learning in exploration of the computerprogram Code + Chords to help achieve that goal. Code + Chords is a customizable music visualizationsoftware that responds to the pitch and amplitude of a person’s voice, giving users the interdisciplinaryexperience of working with coding, music, and technology. This research project was based on thequestion, “To what extent may self

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Informal Engineering Education with Secondary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Schetema Nealy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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professionals in STEM-related careers. 7. Increase student motivation to follow through with next steps to fulfill STEM career decisions. 8. Increase student interest in working on STEM projects in the future. 9. Increase student commitment to continue studies and/or professional development in a STEM area.Description of ProgramSISTEM was a grant-funded program that offered high school participants the opportunity tolearn about a variety of STEM careers. The program took place at a university in the southwestregion of the United States. SISTEM met once per week for five consecutive weeks. All of theparticipants arrived in the evening, ate a complimentary dinner, and then attended a briefinformation session or “lightning” talk on a

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn A. Albers, Hofstra University; Richard J. Puerzer, Hofstra University

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August. The course is activity centric with learningobjectives written up in modules. The learning objectives are from three key areas: Excel,MATLAB, and math. The activities provide an opportunity for students to collaborate, network,and collect data. The modules focus on a way to teach concepts in Excel, MATLAB, or Mathusing that data. To infuse flexibility into the curriculum, the modules are applicable to differentactivities as long as the data lends itself to the lesson at hand. Threaded throughout the course areassignments to help the students learn about themselves and their learning styles.Having taught Living With the Lab, the author saw first-hand how a project-based learning7curriculum positively impacts and motivates students. The

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelli Paul, Indiana University; Euisuk Sung, Indiana University; Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University; Karen Miel, Tufts University; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University

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and STEM careers as well as the development of instruments and evaluation tools to assess these constructs.Dr. Euisuk Sung, Indiana University Euisuk Sung is a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Engineering and Technology Teacher Education at Purdue University. He has computer science degree and worked as a computer software developer for three years. then he served as an engineering and technology educator in high school for 9 years in South Korea. Currently he is working in NSF Funded project, titled TRAILS. His research interests are design cognition, maker education, computer science education, and all about STEM education.Dr. Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 17

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Saira Anwar, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Valarie L. Bogan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marla Jane Glover, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Utkuhan Genc, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lynn A. Bryan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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engagement data from these teachers’ classrooms. Specifically, wecollected data from 1100 6th grade students for their pre-engagement (before the implementationof the curriculum unit) and post-engagement (after the implementation of the curriculum unit).Academic performance data were provided for 915 6th grade students. We used the modifiedmultidimensional engagement instrument, “The Math and Science Engagement Scales,” forstudents’ engagement data. The instrument has four dimensions, which are behavioral,emotional, cognitive, and social. Students’ academic performance data were collected through acontent assessment designed by the project team. In this study, we specifically explored the role of students’ pre-engagement in

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Engineering Design for Elementary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University; Ming C. Tomayko, Towson University

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process – particularly as it includes drawn plans – usesand challenges spatial thinking skills. Next, we describe what we know from research on youngchildren’s planning in engineering design.Planning in Kindergarten Curricula Planning takes place in kindergarten engineering curricula either explicitly as a Plan stepor implicitly within other steps or elements in engineering design processes. Those that use anexplicit Plan step include PictureSTEM and Engineering is Elementary (EiE) for Kindergarten[10, 11]. Planning is also included within design process steps or elements such as “Model”within Project Lead-the-Way’s Launch design process for PreK-5 learners or the “Try” stepwithin a process developed by Lottero-Perdue and colleagues for

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

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Paul Jason Weinberg Weinberg, Oakland University

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? MethodParticipants Students (n = 15, 9 male) in the target classroom attended an urban elementary school inthe midwestern United States. Most students (75%) qualified for free or reduced lunch. Threestudents had Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). In addition, post-interview assessmentscores from the Assessment of Mechanistic Reasoning Project (AMRP) were compared withthose from a group of 112 participants (Table 1) from a previous study. This comparison group 9was used to measure those scores from participants in this study against a diverse group who hadnot engaged in the curriculum. Table 1. Comparison Group Respondents Number included in analysis Elementary

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Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, & Self-efficacy

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Erdogan Kaya, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Hasan Deniz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Ezgi Yesilyurt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Johana Iglesias, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Vegas Ezgi Yesilyurt is a PhD student in curriculum and instruction/science education at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is working as a graduate assistant and teaching science methods courses. She received her MS degree and BS degree in elementary science education. She participated European Union Projects in which she conducted series of professional development programs for in-service science teachers. Areas of research interest are engineering education, inquiry learning and evolution education.Johana Iglesias, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Johana Iglesias is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She helped to develop and manage NSF EPSCoR STEM high school outreach

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Pre-College Engineering Education Focused on Female Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeanna R. Wieselmann, University of Minnesota; Emily Anna Dare, Florida International University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota; Elizabeth Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University

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- tudes and beliefs teachers hold about cultural diversity and teaching culturally diverse students. Past and current projects include designing and teaching undergraduate and graduate-level coursework intended to help teachers develop effective science teaching practices and culturally relevant pedagogy for their classrooms, mentoring pre-service science teachers, working with in-service science teachers to develop and implement integrated STEM curricula, leading STEM integration professional development for in- service science teachers, working with administration and teachers to develop STEM programming in their schools, and developing a K-12 STEM observation protocol that can be used in a variety of educa- tional

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Engineering Professional Development using Robotics Activities

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hye Sun You, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sonia Mary Chacko, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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STEM education. In her dissertation work, she developed and validated a new interdisci- plinary assessment in the context of carbon cycling for high school and college students using Item Re- sponse Theory. She is also interested in developing robotics-embedded curricula and teaching practices in a reform-oriented approach. Currently, a primary focus of her work at New York University is to guide the development of new lessons and instructional practices for a professional development program under a DR K-12 research project funded by NSF.Sonia Mary Chacko, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Sonia Mary Chacko received her B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

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Alexandria Muller, University of California, Santa Barbara; Liliana Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ron Kevin Skinner, MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation; Danielle Harlow, University of California, Santa Barbara

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development within informal science environments as well as Research- Practice Partnerships to benefit the local community. For more information about current projects and interests, please visit alexandriamuller.com.Liliana Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara Liliana is a doctoral student interested in STEM Education under the guidance of Julie Bianchini at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned her B.S in Physics and obtained a single subject teaching credential through CalTeach at UC Irvine. Liliana previously worked with Upward Bound Trio Programs at Occidental College, preparing under-represented youth for successful pathways into college and work environments. Her experiences as a first

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

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Susan M. Letourneau, New York Hall of Science; Dorothy Bennett, New York Hall of Science; ChangChia James Liu, New York Hall of Science; Yessenia Argudo, New York Hall of Science; Kylie Peppler, University of California, Irvine; Anna Keune, Ruhr-University Bochum; Maggie Dahn, University of California, Irvine; Katherine McMillan Culp, New York Hall of Science

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informal learning environments. His recent projects include de- veloping and evaluating STEM-related programs, curriculums, and activities for children and their fami- lies, and conducting research on museum educators and their professional development.Ms. Yessenia Argudo, New York Hall of Science Yessenia holds a master of public health in community health education from CUNY School of Public Health and Public Policy. She has worked in various areas within public health including respectful maternal care, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and global health. Her belief that ”knowledge is power” has fueled her career choices and led her to join NYSCI as a research and development assistant. She will be

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Engineering Design Process Activities with Secondary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica D. Gale, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #25588Students’ Experience with Collaborative Engineering Design Challenges in aMiddle School Engineering Course (Evaluation)Dr. Jessica D. Gale, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jessica Gale is a Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Sci- ence, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC). Her research focuses on project-based learning, STEM integration at the elementary and middle grades levels, design-based implementation research, and fidelity of implementation. Dr. Gale has a particular interest in project-based engineering in elementary school communities and the socio

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Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, & Self-efficacy

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebekah J. Hammack, Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program

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. Of the 15% who had attendedengineering focused PD, only 40% reported that their district paid for them to attend the PD.Examples of engineering focused PD that participants attended included Project Lead the Way,STEM workshops developed by the Oklahoma Energy Resource Board, and robotics trainingssuch as Botball and FIRST Lego League. Many participants could not remember the name ofthe PD they attended and simply called it a STEM training. Figure 2 displays participant responses to the modified Texas Poll question “Do youbelieve engineering is a high priority…” Overall, participants did not believe that engineeringwas a priority in their schools, in their school districts, to the parents in their schools, or to thecommunities where

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Engineering Design for Elementary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Miel, Tufts University; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Emily Fuller, Tufts University; Kelli Paul, Indiana University; Euisuk Sung, Indiana University; Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University

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year graduate student at Tufts University’s Eliot Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development. She received a bachelor’s degree in child development from Texas Christian University. She currently works as a research assistant on the Role Models in Elementary Engineering project, which studies how elementary school students develop engineering role models and assume identities as engineers.Dr. Kelli Paul, Indiana University Dr. Kelli Paul is a postdoctoral researcher in science education at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology specializing in Inquiry Methodology from Indiana University in 2006. She managed a consulting business for 10 years working on evaluations that

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Engineering Design for Elementary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John C. Oliva, Corteva Agriscience; Diane Spence

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related careers was more complete andaccurate.In-Class Presentation OverviewThe “4th Grade Engineering” sessions that are the subject of the paper at hand comprised just asingle class period each year lasting approximately 1.5 to 2.0 hours. This is significantly lessambitious than the outreach programs that other authors have documented which extend to six oreven eight sessions spread out over the course of an academic year [11], [12], [13]. At this point,this pilot project is in its fourth year, and the “4th Grade Engineering” classroom activity has beenrepeated 10 times for a total of approximately 150 to 160 students.Introduction to EngineeringTo directly address the already noted identity issue that engineering suffers from, the “4 th

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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Kimberly Farnsworth, Arizona State University; Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University

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, real-life projects [1]-[4]. PBL allows learners toengage with complex problems which require them to use and develop problem-solvingstrategies in collaborative groups [5]-[7].Problem-based Learning is also a student-centered approach to learning [6], [8]. In the PBLenvironment, the instructor serves as a guide as opposed to the purveyor of knowledge. Aslearners work together in collaborative groups, the instructor supports and facilitates the learners’knowledge construction through the problem-solving process. This complex learning approach,rooted in solving authentic problems, promotes higher-order thinking skills, cooperativeproblem-solving, and has as its goal the transition of the learner from novice to expert [9]. Theliterature tells us

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 14

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Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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completed the written survey, four teachers were teaching fully remote and oneteacher was teaching hybrid for the 2020-2021 academic school year. Regarding the LMS, threeteachers utilized the LMS for the curriculum resources and videos. All Femineer® teachers utilizedsocial media for the Femineer® Challenges videos and the teachers reported that their studentsliked the videos and made the projects featured in the videos. One teacher commented “thank youfor the program and for finding ways to support us during our distance learning experience.”Another teacher remarked “overall how you pivoted our collaborations and community has beenamazing! Thank you.” It was identified that teachers wanted more instructional or “how-to” videosand troubleshooting

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebekah J. Hammack, Montana State University; Tina Vo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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developengineering learning experiences for their classrooms that are not exclusionary to traditionallyunderrepresented students.The current study works to add to the previously mentioned set of Draw-A-Teacher Tests bydeveloping a Draw-An-Engineering Teacher Test (DAETT) to identify teachers’ mental imagesof engineering teaching. Specifically, the study seeks to answer the following research questions:1. What mental images do participants hold of themselves teaching engineering at theelementary level?2. How do pre-service teachers’ mental images of teaching engineering change aftercompleting a semester long science methods course that includes engineering-focusedcomponents?This project is a work in progress and the current paper reports on the