her doctoral research, she conducts mechatronics and robotics research in the Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory at NYU.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 Tan- don School of Engineering. As the Center’s STEAM educator and researcher she works with engineers 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 that provide robotics/mechatronics PD to science, math, and technology teachers. In addition, she is the projects director of the ARISE program. This full-time, seven
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
experience at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded DR K-12 re- search project to promote integration of robotics in middle school science and math education. For her doctoral research, she conducts mechatronics and robotics research in the Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory at NYU.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
develop educational materials to help K-12 students learn about the brain. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 “Helped me feel relevant again in the classroom”: Longitudinal Evaluation of a Research Experience for Teachers Program in Neural Engineering (Evaluation)Abstract The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program, supported by the NationalScience Foundation, engages pre-college teachers in authentic research experiences inuniversity-based laboratories across the country. Some RET program sites engage scienceteachers in engineering research. With A Framework for K-12 Science and EngineeringEducation [1] and the Next Generation Science
, teamwork, and technicalcommunication]; and 5) be easy to implement [as measured by transferability, sustainability, andscalability]. DBT parallels the underlying pedagogy narrative of New Learning developed byKalantzis and Cope [9], and it overlaps with Energy Engineering Laboratory Module (EELM™)pedagogy [10], which posits that learning experiences must be hands-on, accessible, student-centered, economical, and “turn-key”. DBT and EELM™ project hardware must be affordablefor an institution with limited resources and be buildable and operable by a handy high schoolcourse instructor or technician without situated knowledge or access to specialized tools orequipment.Anecdotally, educators have been using model rocketry for decades in middle/high
- and transdisciplinary experiences relevant to the currenttechnical development. More specifically, this program provided three main objectives,including: (1) providing transdisciplinary engineering design experiences relevant to cutting edgetechnical development for teachers; (2) developing teacher-driven lesson plans that could beimplemented in the classroom, and (3) disseminating results and developed materials to helpteachers in the region and beyond.In this RET site program, teachers rotated to four different research laboratories with a 1.5-to-3-week duration in each at the University of Central Florida (UCF) campus under the guidance offaculty mentors, graduate students and, in some cases, even undergraduate NSF REUparticipants [4]. In
laboratories,conduct hands-on experiments, engage in engineering skill building activities, and collaborate ona daily basis. The program was based in teamwork, both for the WDC where a student team anda teacher team worked together to create their wearable device, and in the labs where student-teacher pairs worked on independent research projects under the direction of a graduate studentand faculty advisor. Implementation details and results of these established programs have beenpreviously reported [1] [2].During summer 2020, due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person campsand activities were cancelled, and even research laboratories shut down in-person activities for aperiod of time. The situation, while making it impossible
the Northeastern Association for Science Teacher Education (NE-ASTE) where faculty, researchers, and educators inform STEM teaching and learning and inform policy.Dr. Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering 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, 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
engineering pedagogical content knowledge and engineering engagement, whichled to an overall increase in teaching engineering self-efficacy [19]. Other studies have alsofound that the integration of robotics projects into various disciplines increased the involvedteachers’ self-efficacy around the use of robotics into middle school curriculum [20]. Immersingteachers in laboratory settings and research experiences has also been effective at increasing highschool teachers’ self-efficacy in content areas such as nanotechnology [21], as well as shiftingtheir perceptions of engineering as a field [22]. These examples of professional developmentactivities embody the five principles of professional development and ultimately demonstratedthe effectiveness of
, 2011.[14] V. Sampson, P. Enderle, J. Grooms & S. Witte, “Writing to learn by learning to write During the school science laboratory: Helping middle and high school students develop argumentative writing skills as they learn core ideas,” Science Education, vol. 97, issue 5, pp. 643-670, September, 2013.[15] J.P. Walker, & V. Sampson, “Learning to argue and arguing to learn: Argument-driven inquiry as a way to help undergraduate chemistry students learn how to construct arguments and engage in argumentation during a laboratory course,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching, volume 50, issue 5, pp. 561-596. May, 2013.[16] T.J. Moore, M.S. Stohlmann, H.H. Wang, K.M. Tank, & G.H. Roehrig
, Florida International University Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He then completed a master’s degree in engineering management at George Washington University in 2007. In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in the Minority and Urban Education Unit of the Col- lege of Education at the University of Maryland. Bruk worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he focused on nanotechnology, from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 he left JHU/APL for a fellowship with the National Academies where he conducted research on methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. After a brief stint teaching mathematics in Baltimore City
manufacturing jobs” as a main reason for the problem.Relatedly, [3] has set forth the goal of attracting and growing tomorrow’s manufacturingworkforce through STEM-focused education programs and industry-education partnerships.The related educational programs are often connected to learning environments that havebeen created to engage students in making, tinkering, programming, and honing other skillsrelevant to tomorrow’s workforce while exploring related career pathways [4]. These learningenvironments are typically referred to as STEM labs (laboratories) and/or makerspaces [5].However, programs like these often focus on upper-secondary students, and can fail toaddress career misperceptions, especially early on when career interests are
Paper ID #34262Middle School Capstone Engineering Projects (Work in Progress)Dr. Kenneth Berry, Southern Methodist University Dr. Kenneth Berry is a Research Professor at the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education (CIEE) in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He has worked as an education specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until he received his doctorate in Educational Technology in 2001. He then taught at the Michael D. Eisner School of Education at California State University at Northridge (CSUN). In 2009, he moved to Texas to work at the Science and Engineering Education
presentations in these research topics. He is currently a research associate of the Yes SHE Can program sponsored by the US Department of Education, and the H-AGEP program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. His research interests are in the areas of transportation infrastructure and pavement materials, civil engineering applications in Smart Cities, advancement of STEM education, and career opportunities for underrepresented minority groups. Upon graduation, he will continue his professional career as a civil engineer and researcher at the Airfield and Pavements Branch of the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory from the US Department of Defense. American c
senior economist statistician at the Central Bank of West African States. He also served as a consultant for the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and the UNDP.Miss Dhvani Gangadia, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteProf. Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Michael A. Gennert is Professor of Robotics Engineering, CS, and ECE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads the WPI Humanoid Robotics Laboratory and was Founding Director of the Robotics Engineering Program. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the University of California Riverside, PAR Technology Corporation, and General Electric. He received the S.B. in CS, S.B. in EE, and S.M. in EECS in 1980 and the Sc.D. in
University and was elected to Sigma Xi. Her research was conducted at the Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. She received bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. She holds three US patents. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 An Engineering Design Approach to Study and Strengthen a Teacher Preparation Program in STEM at the Secondary Level (Work in Progress)Introduction A study about the Teacher Preparation Program (TPP) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) was conducted to examine the barriers of its graduates from entering the classroom
is not generated by robotics alone. Instead, it is specificapplications of robotics that can be used to attract underrepresented minorities. The worksummarized here illustrates that intentional curricular design for ER programs may be aneffective tool to increase student diversity in the STEM fields.Robotics as a vehicle to strengthen STEM conceptsPrevious ER implementations and research suggests the practicality of using a roboticscurriculum in order to promote meaningful learning of STEM concepts [5]. These ERimplementations have transformed traditional STEM education processes by teaching theoreticalconcepts through concrete robotics experiences. While some STEM subjects have laboratory,activities integrated into the course, many, such as
the Medical Accelerator for Devices Laboratory (MAD Lab) at the UIC Innovation Center. Prior to joining the faculty at UIC, she worked in new product development for medi- cal devices, telecommunications and consumer products. She also serves as co-Director of the Freshman Engineering Success Program, and is actively involved in engineering outreach for global health. Miiri received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.Miss Amna Hoda, The University of Illinois at Chicago Amna Hoda is a Biomedical Engineering student at The University of Illinois at Chicago
the students’own experiences.Research activityThe greatest change proposed and eventually implemented relates to the teaching process andhow the teacher-facilitator presents the physics concept. In the pre-existing paradigm, teachersintroduce the theory of a new concept prior to running an experiment or discussing contextualapplications of the theory. The physics laboratory objective is solely to verify or support thepresented theory. Teachers then encourage students to extrapolate implementation contextsthrough discussions that follow the lab experiment. The focus of the student lab report is ontheory, procedures, data collection and applying that data to the theoretical equations. Reportconclusions recount how well the experiment matched
alongside key concepts and practicesin the informal teaching and learning space.Implementation StrategiesThis case study is based on an informal education program which provides students with anopportunity to dive into hands-on engineering. This program also serves as a laboratory settingfor teacher-researchers to pilot new programming that they would not have the opportunity to trywithin the formal classroom. The program serves approximately 100 diverse 6th and 8th gradegirls in an engineering summer program. The diversity of the educators may add to theinnovation with formal educators including a secondary math teacher, K-5 STEAM specialists,an inclusion coordinator, a tech integration specialist, secondary science educationundergraduates
State University course “provides an overview of the salient math topics mostheavily used in the core sophomore-level engineering courses.”4 “The course will also provide anintroduction to the engineering analysis software Matlab, which is used throughout theengineering curriculum. While time constraints will preclude a formal treatment of Matlabduring lecture, application of the software will be integrated with each laboratory assignment.”4Having taught the WSU course, the author wasconcerned the new model might resemble the WSUcourse too closely. Since both courses have a goal ofincreasing student
disciplinespecific engineering laboratories. Data were collected in three streams. First, through identical pre-test and posttest surveysmeasuring attitudes and interest in STEM fields. This survey, which took approximately tenminutes to complete, was a slightly modified version of the Friday Institute’s S-STEM survey[16] which has been shown to be a valid instrument for understanding student attitudes fordifferent STEM disciplines. Second, focus group interviews related to attitudes and interests inengineering were conducted. The focus group protocol and questions were created by the team ofresearchers to address specific topics around the research questions including student interest andidentity around engineering tasks. The third data collection
consider engineering as a major. University faculty havea role to play in encouraging and giving direction to high school studies in mathematics, science,and engineering so that students’ experiences can help them become interested and engaged inengineering studies. This can be done through meetings to discuss college expectations inengineering, inviting K-12 teachers to the college campus to visit laboratories and attendlectures, or providing professional development that helps them understand more about theengineering process and ways to better prepare students for college. Studies that delve intostudent reasons for choosing engineering as a major and future career can help counselors andfaculty members in secondary schools, colleges, and
knowledge. For instance, we asked teachers how they were able to identify thosemoments when students would access their funds of knowledge. Maria responded that “it’susually during classroom discussion, when we open it up to the whole class, and I ask them toshare out” these moments were depicted in our conversation with Jessica. She commentedthat, “[...] This rocket project that we’ve been working on, there was a kid that told me all about how he went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and saw [...] different space hubs. And the Apollo spacecraft was there. And he used that when he was trying to think of how he was going to design his rocket [...].In this excerpt, Jessica talks about one of the students drawing from his
, Brooklyn, NY, where he is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded ITEST project.Dr. Vikram Kapila, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering 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, 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
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 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, 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
. Define the term research. 2. Describe examples of research being conducted in STEM fields and the potential impact of that research on society. 3. List examples of career opportunities available in various STEM fields. 4. Collect scientific data in a laboratory setting. 5. Analyze and interpret simple scientific data generated in the laboratory. 6. List and describe the steps of the scientific method. 7. List and describe the steps of the engineering design process. 8. Compare and contrast the scientific method and the engineering design process. 9. Describe the difference between quantitative and qualitative data and provide examples of situations where each is used. 10. Demonstrate knowledge of the
years. Yalvac’s research is in STEM education, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Dr. Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Dis- tribution at Texas A&M University. He also serves as Associate Dean for Inclusion and Faculty Success in the College of Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product de- velopment engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Mas
Credentials for 21st- Century Emerging Tech Careers,” In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 2020, Waynesville, NC, USA. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/215853/.[5] National Institute of Standards and Technology. Cloud Computing. Information Technology Laboratory. June 2020. https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cloud-computing.[6] M. Hendon and L. Powel. “Activity based learning for cloud computing,” Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2020, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 176-185.[7] D. Foster, L. White, J. Adams, D. C. Erdil, H. Hyman, S. Kurkovsky, M. Sakr, M. and L. Stott. “Cloud computing: developing contemporary computer science curriculum for a cloud-first future