Engineering Education, 2020Reservoir Rescue: A Community-Connected Elementary WaterFiltration Engineering Unit (Resource Exchange)Grade level: 3-6 (meets 5th grade engineering and earth and space science standards)Time: 12, 1-hour lessons. Final Design Challenge can also be a stand-alone design taskStandards: All NGSS 3-5-ETS standards are met, see full documentation for science standardsIn the ConnecTions in the Making project, researchers and district partners work to develop andstudy community-connected, integrated science and engineering curriculum units that supportdiverse elementary students’ science and engineering ideas, practices, and attitudes. In the units,students use human-centered design strategies to prototype and share functional
a product by the end of the lesson. Students will need to be able to determine a community need in addition to designing and creating a smaller-scale example of their solution. They will need to keep in mind who t hey are designing for; it is not for themselves! Once complete, students will present their projects in an engineering exhibit, and evaluate each other’s solutions. Looking for more inspiration? You can prompt your students to design something more specific. For example: Have your students design a shelter for victims of natural disasters or political conflict. Have your students design a library for small villages without access to this resource. The possibilities are endless! Project Checklist: What are you trying
2013 for designing the nation’s first BS degree in Engineering Education. He was named NETI Faculty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneur- ship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way.Mrs. Tina Marie Griesinger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tina Griesinger is a PhD student in the Engineering Education department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Community-Connected ElementaryGeotechnical Engineering Unit (Resource Exchange)Grade level: 3-6 (meets 4th grade engineering and earth and space science standards)Time: 8, 1-hour lessons. Final Design Challenge can also be a stand-alone design taskStandards: All NGSS 3-5-ETS standards are met, see full documentation for science standardsIn the ConnecTions in the Making project, researchers and district partners work to develop andstudy community-connected, integrated science and engineering curriculum units that supportdiverse elementary students’ science and engineering ideas, practices, and attitudes. In the units,students use human-centered design strategies to prototype and share functional solutions to adesign challenge rooted in the students
- on projects. However, this newteaching tool is also well suited for use in other classrooms, such as introductory engineeringcourses. One issue within these courses is they lack an engaging biomedical engineering projectwhich is suitable for all the students. NeuroBytes are relatively easy to use and require little priorknowledge. This technology bridges the gap between technology and biology orneurophysiology in order to show students the basic principles of biomedical engineering. A totalof 15 students and two teachers in a dual credit engineering course, offered by the University ofArizona, participated in this evaluation of NeuroBytes. Teachers first completed a pre- labsurvey and then a post-lab survey to determine if there was a need
County Adult Proba- tion Department, coordinated and executed the research and program evaluation for a large Department of Justice Second Chance Act grant. These efforts included monitoring, assessing, and evaluating the impacts of program outcomes. Since joining the UOEEE in 2015, Dr. Cook-Davis has led research and evaluation activities for over 50 separate grant-funded programs or initiatives funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Agri- culture, National Institutes of Health, and The Kern Family Foundation. These projects have focused on the evaluation of student success, outreach impacts, innovative learning techniques, and STEM
groupstypically underrepresented in engineering, including Hispanic students who make up fortypercent of the sample. Results showed that EPICS High students who identified asHispanic/Latino were more likely to express an interest in studying engineering than EPICSHigh students not identifying as such. Students who identified as Hispanic/Latino whoparticipated in an EPICS high service learning project also showed a stronger interest in studyingengineering in college than students of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity in an ENGR 102HS coursewithout the service learning portion. Eighty percent of all the participants reported thatparticipation in the EPICS High unit increased their interest in engineering and no significantgender differences were found. Participants
and evaluation of an engineering design-themed SummerAcademy program geared towards exposing high school students, especiallyunderrepresented and underserved groups, to science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) fields and careers. The goals of the engineering design activities wereto (i) improve students’ competence in science and engineering, (ii) nurture students’enthusiasm for science and engineering, and (iii) create student interest in research or otherscience and engineering-related careers. The program targeted rural counties surroundingproject site and served eighty-one (81) students who received thirty-six (36) hours of hands-on STEM learning experience. Project evaluation data was gathered through StudentFeedback
encourage them to pursue STEAM careers. One particularly effective approach isthrough hands-on learning and “making,” since children often have a natural affinity fortinkering and learn well through active involvement in meaningful activities [1]. Hands-on,project-based learning has been shown to get more students engaged with STEAM and help themlearn key skills for the future [2]. However, most STEAM education programs target students inupper-middle or high school [3]. Bustamante et. al write, “Since engineering education hastraditionally not been part of the general K–12 education experience (i.e., the beginning ofprimary school (age 5) through the end of secondary school (age 18)), early childhood educatorshave minimal background in engineering
broadly, making analysis of the overallimpacts of these programs difficult. An examination of the literature in this space yields severalstudies addressing the various impacts of RET programs on teachers and students [2] - [6].However, the overall body of knowledge in this space is still somewhat limited considering thenumber of teachers who have participated in these programs. Currently, the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) reports 81 active RET sites [7]. These are three-year grants generallysupporting 10 teachers per year, for a total of nearly 2500 teachers participating in RETprograms solely based on active project grants.This study attempts to build on the body of knowledge by analyzing how the authenticity andscientific rigor of the RET
provide PD that aligns to The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Since 2008 she has provided teacher PD to science teachers in the tri-state area, including international visiting teachers and scholars. Dr. Borges’ research interests include: building STEM professional-teacher relationships, diversity and equity, and enhancing urban science teaching and learning.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project
engineering. Block play and building structures likebridges and ramps, a natural beginning to engineering thinking as children construct, test thelimits of, revise, and rebuild their structures, was a common occurrence in this preschool. Forteachers who are beginning to learn about and implement the engineering design process (EDP),long-term projects that bring children though a full design process is ideal so the EDP is notovershadowed by children excited with short-term, hands-on activities. As such, the researchquestion guiding this study was: How does preschool teachers’ knowledge of and confidencewith teaching the EDP evolve over the course of a long-term engineering project? The preschoolteachers were guided by the researcher to explicitly
invited toparticipate in the research. C+C:TT focused on providing hands-on lessons about thefundamentals of circuitry and basics of computer programming through the lens of music, taughtby four college-aged student researchers. The program commenced by encouraging students toutilize these newly-learned skills and tools in a collaborative final project, combining what theylearned from each of the prior sessions. Participants consisted of a diverse group of 7th-12thgrade girls who expressed an interest in exploring the STEAM fields and/or in furthering theirknowledge and confidence in computer programming. Major areas of this program includedcircuitry, coding, the combination of music and technology, and collaborative challenges. Theoverall goals
Paper ID #21953Determining the Engineering Knowledge Dimension: What all High SchoolStudents Should Know to be Engineering Literate (Fundamental)Dr. Tanner J. Huffman, College of New Jersey Tanner Huffman is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative STEM Education, School of En- gineering at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Before joining the faculty at TCNJ, Dr. Huffman was the Director of Research, Assessment and Special Projects at the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA). While at ITEEA, he secured funding from the National Science Foun- dation, the Kuwait Foundation for
University School of Public Health. He has been involved in a number of public health research projects focusing on topics such as workplace ergonomics and healthcare monitoring systems. His current projects and research are focused on STEM education for under-represented minority (URM) pre-college students, and educational intervention for childhood asthma.Ms. Madison Elaine Spier, Texas A&M University BS Animal Science - Texas A&M University, 2011 Program Coordinator and Research Associate for Dr. Fuchs-YoungMr. Gustavo Mosqueda Elizondo III, Texas A&M University Gustavo M. Elizondo III, MPH is a research assistant in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center
Revelations: The challenges and promises of implementing informal STEM experiences in K-12 school settings (Work in Progress, Diversity)AbstractCatalyzing Inclusive STEM Experiences All Year Round (CISTEME365) is a multi-year,multi-pronged project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). We worked with K-12school educators to improve their understanding and promote practices that purposely influencestudents’ science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) interests and careertrajectory. We also supported creating and implementing out-of-school STEM clubs that offerstudents inquiry-driven engineering design and other hands-on STEM experiences throughoutthe school year. As part of our larger project goals
. Participants already registered for the in-person residentialprogram needed to quickly decide if they wanted to continue with the new virtual format. In threemonths, the project team went from skeptics to strong advocates of a virtual summer program.To increase diversity in participants underrepresented in Engineering, EPIC partners withprograms such as the Migrant Education Program (MEP) and Advanced Via IndividualDetermination (AVID) program. The MEP is a federal program providing academic support tochildren of migrant workers in agriculture, dairy, or fishing industries. The AVID programprovides extensive support to minority, rural, low-income, and other participants without acollege-going tradition in their families who have the desire to go to
Paper ID #22619Fundamental: A Teacher Professional Development Program in EngineeringResearch with Entrepreneurship and Industry ExperiencesMr. Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, New York University Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy received his BSEE from Amrita University and M.S in Mechatronics from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical En- gineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, serving as a research assistant under NSF-funded RET Site project. He conducts research in Mechatronics, Robotics and Controls Laboratory at NYU and his research interests include automation
Engineering Education Center, and Caruth Institute of Engineering Education. He specializes in Engineering, STEM, and Project Based Learning instruction. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Computer Science and Computational Thinking Across the Early Elementary Curriculum (Work in Progress)In 2016 Amazon announced an extensive search to identify a home for its second headquarters,HQ2. Our city, Dallas, TX was near the top of the list for most of the competition. However,when the final choice was announced two years ago, Dallas lost to Washington, D.C. and NewYork City. According to the Dallas Mayor, who was an active member of the
learn about key scientificprinciples and how to apply scientific methods, and a hands-on summer research componentwhere students become involved in conducting original research. The spring course is intendedto provide the students with the skills they need to undertake science research projects during thesummer and includes topics such as data analysis, responsible conduct of research, and thedissemination of scientific data. Fourteen students enrolled in the 2018 research course; mostwere female (only three males enrolled in the program), and non-minority (only threeminorities). During the summer, students were engaged in conducting research under thementorship of QCC faculty. Research projects included topics such as space weather
creation of effective lesson plansthat would introduce engineering disciplines to middle and high school students and provideopportunities for hands-on experimental design. Rather than work with schools that already hadestablished STEM programs, we looked at schools without STEM programs where math andscience teachers were interested in using engineering principles and concepts as a practicalapplication of their content area.The Engineering Ambassadors collaborated in planning lessons that addressed math and sciencecontent with an engineering application. The educators focused on grade level math and sciencetopics while the engineers considered hands-on projects that could enhance the math and sciencetopics.During the first two years of the
Paper ID #30442Evaluating Student Success in a Pre-College General Engineering Program(Evaluation)Dr. Duncan Davis, Northeastern University Duncan Davis is an Assistant Teaching Professor in First Year Engineering. His research focuses on using gamification to convey course content in first year classes. Mostly recently, he has implemented a series of escape room projects to teach engineering to first year students through the process of designing, prototyping, and building these play experiences.Mr. Matthew BurnsDr. John Sangster P.E., Northeastern University Dr. Sangster is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the First
of the top-ten undergraduate-serving engineering universities in the U.S. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
activity. See full documentation for standards.In the ConnecTions in the Making project, researchers and school district partners work todevelop and study community-connected, integrated science and engineering curriculum unitsthat support diverse elementary students’ science and engineering ideas, practices, and attitudes.Students investigate, prototype, share, and revise functional solutions to an engineering designchallenge rooted in the students’ local community while scientifically exploring the phenomenaand mechanisms related to the challenge. This paper shares the “Accessible Playground Design”3rd-grade unit in which students explore the scientific concepts of force, motion and magnetismbased on the need to design a piece of accessible
digital natives (students), and incorporates: mind mapping (discoverybased learning), experts on call, gamification, all integrated through teacher views thatproduce dynamic project-based lesson plans. The system encourages an interdisciplinaryapproach that requires students to draw on multiple subject areas simultaneously to solvereal world problems. Previous research conducted by the authors has indicated that in thecontext of learning style models, the PLMS provides a balanced approach to learning andtherefore should be a very useful learning tool in the physics curriculum. This study willfirst present the results of attitudinal and learning style surveys that were conducted inlocal junior high schools that correlate learning style profiles
for STEM and focusing ondeveloping personal connections, students are more likely to identify these providers as rolemodels [11-12].Our initial goal was to gain a better understanding of whether students view these outreacheducators as role models. In the first year of the project, we directly asked students to identifytheir role models and whether they thought of their EOEs as role models. Consistent withprevious research on children’s role models [13], students most often mentioned family membersas role models, followed by celebrities (e.g., athletes, singers), teachers and fellow classmates,with only a handful citing EOEs. Reasons provided by students for choosing these role modelswere split among what role models do as careers or hobbies
engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Equity in Collaboration: My Ideas Matter, Too! K-12 Students’ Negotiation of Social Status in Collaborative Engineering Team (Fundamental Research)AbstractWithin pre-college (K-12) engineering education, the curriculum design integrates studentsworking with partners or teams on projects as standard practice in the curriculum design.However, with a need to increase participation in engineering and other STEM career pathways,introducing engineering in pre-college settings has become a central avenue for access to STEMcareer pathways for many students. Pre-college learning experiences are opportunities to developstudents’ interests further and
, where he is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded ITEST project.Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru is the Assistant Director of the Center for K-12 STEM Education, NYU Tandon School of Engineering. As the Center’s STEAM educator and researcher she works with engi- neers and faculty to provide professional development to K-12 STEM teachers with a focus on social justice. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator on two NSF-grants (senior personnel of one) that pro- vide robotics/mechatronics PD to science, math, and technology teachers. In addition, she is the projects director of the ARISE program. This full-time, seven-week program includes: college
course of action people choose to pursue, how much effort they put forth in givenendeavors and how long they will persist in the face of obstacles. Students with high self-efficacybeliefs typically persist at higher rates in STEM versus students with low self-efficacy beliefs. Theaim of this study is to evaluate the impact of exposure to STEM research on underserved andunrepresented students’ self-efficacy and interest in STEM research and careers.Program OverviewA research methods course was developed for high school students (grades 9-11) in the MSENprogram and was taught in three parts over the three year project period: introductory- 9thgrade,intermediate-10th grade and advanced-11th grade (Fig. 1). Students entered the program as
underrepresented students develop the skills and writing habits to complete doctorate degrees in engineering. Across all of her research avenues, Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 12 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award with her share of funding be ingnearly $2.3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 21 journal publications and more than 70 conference papers. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty, an Outstanding Teacher Award and a Faculty Fellow Award. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue