who were eligiblereported that they would be attending their first-choice college. Students were asked about theirfuture plans and nearly all of the students who responded to the final survey reported that theywere planning to attend their first-choice college. Most of the participating students weregraduating seniors, but 6 were juniors and reported that they would be attending high school nextyear. Of the graduating seniors (who completed the year-end survey), all reported that theywould be attending higher education the following year. Moreover, all students were acceptedinto one of their top choice colleges/universities. All but one reported that they planned onattending a top choice college or university. The one student who reported he
has grown to serve over 720 participants each summer with multiple one-weekfully residential and virtual sessions. Funding support from industries such as NorthropGrumman, Raytheon, and Boeing has increased allowing EPIC to serve more low-incomeparticipants.Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, when most universities simply shut down theirengineering summer pre-college programs, EPIC swiftly changed its programming to a fullyvirtual program and served over 400 participants. EPIC created a new curriculum, activities,training, and planned on how to solve issues such as participants' ability to use school-issued orpersonal chromebooks. Intensive home-laboratory activities with mechanical, electrical, andsoftware elements were created
Curriculum and Instruction (Science Education) from the University of Washington.Ms. Jill Lynn Weber, Center for Research and Learning Jill Weber is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Com- munication Studies and English. She has worked as a Project Manager in Information Technology as well as in the Marketing group at AT&T Wireless, and was a corporate trainer for new hires. Ms. Weber was in charge of managing large cross-company project teams and several large technology projects. In 2005, Ms. Weber completed the University of Washington Certificate in Program Evaluation. Currently, she is the owner of The Center for Research and Learning and has expertise in planning and
’ confidence in chemistry, engineering andcomputer skills increased as a result of the course. The most significant increases were observedin engineering skills because initial confidence levels in this area were low. A majority ofstudents reported increased interest in STEM fields and 100% of students (during the 2018cohort) reported that increasing their confidence in science, math and engineering contributed tothis intensified interest. This program evaluation reviews the program’s objectives, format,teaching tools, student feedback and plans for future programming and assessment.IntroductionThe need for STEM-educated workers is long-standing and well-established [1, 2]. The USgovernment has responded by encouraging the development of a STEM
educationthat include the complete process of design, problem and background, plan and implement, testand evaluate, apply science, engineering, and mathematics, engineering thinking, conceptions ofengineers and engineering, engineering tools, issues, solutions, and impacts, ethics, teamwork,and communication related to engineering. Although these are all essential factors for a holisticengineering education, for this study, we focus on one aspect, problem and background, toanalyze how the teacher uses problem scoping engineering talk. Problem scoping and understanding the problem is a major task for engineering designersbecause engineers are “rarely… given a specific, well-defined problem to solve” [8, pp. 12]. Indesign, “problem setting is as
also interested in improving teacher education programs in the sciences by studying how teachers plan and structure learning using c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23995various methods. She has a BA in Biology and a M.Ed. in middle and secondary instruction from theUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her interests developed during her time in the science class-room, having worked in both comprehensive and early college high schools. Leadership experiences at theschool and county levels challenged her to study how teachers and students interact during learning. Shehas presented at
instruction wall is a physical play structure.Children can enter the structure and climb between three levels, delivering colored balls to tubeslabeled with each of the three animals. Robot costumes allow children to be further immersed inthe role of a robot. The children are meant to weigh the benefits of different paths through the maze-likestructure, eventually choosing and “delivering the medicine” to the three animals along theoptimal route. On a station separated from the rest of the exhibit, labeled “Plan It!” on one sideand “Test It!” on the reverse, two-dimensional maps of the play structure can be used to plan andtest a route before physically entering the structure. To the right of the play structure, the exhibitfeatures a wall of
student’s time as an undergraduate student. But the cost for a student toattend Tapia is high. In 2020, the student registration fee alone will be $500.Responses to post surveys show that Tapia is at least as effective as GHC in achieving its goalsfor students. Students consistently report being inspired to complete degrees in computing atrates of over 80%, and of having made new connections and learned about new opportunities incomputing at rates of over 90% [24].4 The CDC merged with the CMD-IT in 2016.5 Two cities have hosted Tapia twice—Atlanta (2003, 2017) and Orlando (2007, 2018); Houston, thelocation of Tapia 2001, will host it for the second time in 2020.6 Charts in this figure are from the Tapia 2019 Academic Plan II Benefits Brochure
virtual experience. The in-person program also had an independent researchcomponent (3 days out of every week), which would be difficult to replicate virtually. Instead wechose to bring in Center faculty to talk about their research and share expertise with the studentsvirtually. Due to this shift away from the research lab, the virtual experience was condensed into2 weeks, instead of the traditional 5 weeks.Using the Moodle learning management system, the team began transitioning the in-personinstruction, engineering projects, lab interactions, faculty support, and WDC, online. TheMoodle class environment structure was based on the 5E lesson planning format. Each day’slesson contained an engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration and
-teachers who worked on planning and implementing lessonscollaboratively. Both co-teachers participated in the summer PD. This class met with the teachersevery school day of the week.Classroom B: 6th grade ProgrammingClassroom B with 21 students (12 male and 9 female) was an ICT class. It was allotted a doubleperiod (90 minutes) and was taught by a lead teacher who participated in the summer PD. He wasassisted by a co-teacher during the second half of the class. As the class was primarily roboticsbased, the lead teacher planed and implemented the lessons while the co-teacher assisted inmaintaining discipline and providing students with one-on-one support. This was also an Englishas Second Language (ESL) classroom, and all written instructions were
earlierinquiry opportunities. Students were also told that the sound output by the instrument wouldneed to come from a program that they created in their teams within Scratch. During this firstday, students brainstormed, planned, and began to create these instruments within their groups.The second session was a continuation of the first as students completed and presented theirinstruments. Participants were given project expectations of the instrument as well as time andmaterial constraints: required to use Scratch, Makey-Makey, and had to have a sound output ofmusic, whatever way that was interpreted as shown in Image 1. The rest of the requirements andproject details were open-ended, spurring a wide variety of finished instruments. These
Paper ID #25424Developing and Assessing Authentic Problem-Solving Skills in High SchoolPre-Engineering StudentsDr. Susheela Shanta, Governor’s STEM Academy @ the Burton Center for Arts and Technology - Center forEngineering Susheela Shanta earned her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from India, a Master of Urban Plan- ning degree from the SUNY at Buffalo, NY and more recently, a doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction: I-STEM Ed from Virginia Tech. With ten years of experience in municipal planning in Philadelphia, PA, and Harrisburg, PA, and ten years in community development, planning, financing and
students enrolled in the After School STEM Practicum Course duringthe Spring 2018 semester participated in this study. All participants were enrolled asundergraduates in a large public university in the Western region of the United States, but variedin their academic year (2 sophomores, 4 juniors, and 11 seniors). Participants were primarilyfemale (16 female, 1 male) and liberal studies majors (16 liberal studies majors; 1 engineeringmajor). A majority of the students (11) stated on the first day of the semester that they hadalready planned to apply to a multiple subject (elementary) teaching credential program aftergraduation and the rest reported that they were considering teaching as a career.The course was taught during this semester by one of
Tokamak at Columbia University, and created a full-scale model of NASA’s Mars Rover for Honeybee Robotics. He is especially interested in design elements and the mechanics of failure. Prof. Rodas is currently planning a workshop course in universal design for disability. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Teaching Hands-On Racecar Design in a Summer Pre-College ProgramAbstractCompetitive motorsports at the undergraduate level has become an increasingly popular extra-and co-curricular activity at universities throughout the world. The importance of theseexperiential, industry-centered projects has long been understood by serving as a true provingground for students while giving
, a software component, and several workbook pages. The modules are asfollows: • Surfaces and Solids of Revolution • Combining Solids • Isometric Drawings and Coded Plans* • Orthographic Drawings* • Folding Flat Patterns • Rotation of Objects about One Axis* • Rotation of Objects about Two or More Axes* • Reflections and Symmetry • Cross-sections of SolidsOf the nine modules listed above, there are four sketching intensive modules (marked with anasterisk) that involve the use of manipulatives (snap cubes). Sketching modules require studentsto build an indicated shape and sketch it from a different perspective. Research suggests that thisprocess of sketching and handling physical objects is important to
mid-sized university and a mid-sized town (Work in Progress)IntroductionThis paper introduces an ongoing cooperation process between a Finnish university and theschools of a local town. The objective of the cooperation is to increase all the children's andadolescents’ interest in science, technology, research, and sustainable business, develop theirskills for academic studies, and enhance their opportunities to build a sustainable future. Theactivities also aim at engaging pupils’ families to promote sustainability in their home city.First, the paper introduces the rationale behind the cooperation and describes the planningand implementation of the activities. After that, the paper focuses on the plans to monitor
register students according to their roster.The teacher administration page with all of its functions is shown in Figure 4. Genius University Figure 4 Teacher administration page of LOPA2Teachers must plan the course and classroom to have appropriate time for multiple studiocritiques, mobile technology for recording, and student roles for recording. Teachers must thenteach learners the criteria and provide exemplars of the EEFK12 so that students recognize themprior to using the application. This should be done early in the course as norms are establishedand can be done using videos and materials supplied with professional development activities
a nineday period. Each day’s lesson lasted 2 hours, with a total of 18 hours for the entire unit. Fortyseven students participated in the STEAM project over two years. The unit consisted of lessons in neuroscience, sensory impairment, ethics, circuitry, programming Arduino microcontrollers, and the engineering design process. Students then spent the last three days of the unit engaging in the creative process of planning, building, and testing a model of a device that substituted one sense with another (see Appendix A for an outline of the lessons). Two neuroscience lessons involved the discussion of sensory inputs, processing through the central nervous system, and motor outputs. Since the class was multigrade, 7th and 8th grade
projects powered and controlledby microcontrollers. The DIY microcontroller is one component of teaching creative engineering withPaper Mech to make and control paper-based machines using accessible computationally-enabledpapercrafts. This design approach emphasizes the use of familiar materials, transparency, low-cost, andrelatively light ecological footprint to support creativity and problem-solving. Students engaged in PaperMech projects experience a cycle of design from planning, sketching, prototyping, testing,troubleshooting, and communicating projects with others.To be able to control the paper machines, microcontrollers are used with servomotors, sensors andswitches. The paper-based microcontroller can be assembled using a very low-cost
consisting of a cover letter, formal application approval by the school principal,scholastic record, personal essay, recommendation letters, vita, etc. Post-selection, the finalistsmeet the project personnel to plan and prepare for the summer program and accommodate teacher-mentor matching. For the 2017 summer PD program originally 10 teachers were selected of whomone teacher discontinued participation after two days due to personal scheduling conflicts.3.1. Introductory phase: The summer PD program began by providing teachers a welcomeorientation to NYU SoE and socializing with the faculty and engineering researchers. Thewelcome orientation was followed by lab tours, introduction to the participating researchpersonnel, and a lab safety session. The
exemplar prototype; the third, to brainstorm engineering designproblems and topics relevant to students, plan instruction around one chosen engineeringproblem, and produce an exemplar prototype. The goals and activities of the professionallearning institute can be found in Table 1.Table 1. Professional learning goals and associated activities. Professional Learning Goals Professional Learning Activities 1. Develop working Used a three-phase design process (see Figure 1) to engage knowledge of engineering teachers in three design challenges design processes 2. Differentiate between Reviewed examples of engineering and making, identified engineering design and criteria for engineering design to clarify its
Transportation Research Center for Livable Communitiesand Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning. He has been awarded two National Science Founda-tion (NSF) research projects to study BIM interoperability scientifically and develop an interoperable BIMprototype system for automating building code compliance checking and modular construction analysis,respectively, through collaborations with experts in Civil and Construction Engineering, Mechanical andAerospace Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer andInformation Technology, Construction Management Technology, and industrial partners. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Engaging High-School Students in Building
continues to be a challengeirrespective of the learning environment, either face-to-face or remote classrooms. Hence, educators haveto continue to find ways to strengthen team-work and team building among the students.IntroductionSeveral studies show that engineering students across educational levels are motivated in alearning environment that incorporates active learning instructional practices. Lesson plans thatemploy experiential learning activities that relate with the students’ daily lived experiencesincreases the interests of engineering students [1]. Teaching high school students engineering ischallenging because many things contend for the attention of the students. The attention span ofmost high school students today is short due in part
fashion designs that were desirable to clients. This skill is relevant to engineering as engineers consider clients’ specifications when planning designs.Later publications from this project expanded this work by elaborating on these findings andexploring other facets of Latinx youths’ funds of knowledge,11 for example, by focusingprimarily on funds of knowledge obtained in the context of workplaces.12Other scholars have offered different frameworks for understanding engineering-related funds ofknowledge. For example, building from Smith and Lucena’s research on first-generation, low-income undergraduate engineering students,13, 14 Verdín et al. created and validated surveymeasures to identify the
pressure.3. The following table shows the output of several common desalination processes. Complete the table with your data and analysis of the pros and cons of your system compared to other processes. How does your system compare to the others? Process mL/hr L/day Pros and cons Solar still 53 0.6 No active maintenance required; must remain at surface and sunny. Hand-operated reverse 946 22.7 Requires active work of pumping device; osmosis pump can run day and night Boiling desalination still ? ? ?Alignment to Next Generation Science Standards:HS-PS1-3. Plan and conduct
Paper ID #33730Enhancing Preservice Teachers’ Intention to Integrate Engineeringthrough a Multi-Disciplinary Partnership (Evaluation)Mr. Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University Francisco Cima is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University. He obtained his Masters in Business Planning and Regional Development from the Techno- logical Institute of Merida. His areas of interest are innovation practices in organizations, information and communication technology in organizations, knowledge management, and team processesDr. Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University Pilar Pazos is an
pencil and gliding magnets in a bowl of water.Contact: Tej Dalvi(tejaswini.dalvi@umb.edu)Project Team: Kristen Wendell (PI), Tej Dalvi(co-PI), Chelsea Andrews, Nicole BatrounyProject Link to full curriculum: https://bit.ly/connectionsengineeringThe ConnecTions in the Making project is supported by the NSF, ITEST-1657218 Day 6: Design Challenge - Plan What are important things to consider when solving a design challenge? The class revisits the design task, constraints, and criteria. Students in small groups sketch and discuss initial ideas for a functional scale model of accessible playground equipment. Day 7: Design Challenge - Build, Test, & Iterate How do we know if our design works? How can we use failures to improve? Student groups build
volunteer engineers.After the fourth month of programming, librarians and ASCE volunteers completed a survey andinterviews. All library staff and nearly all ASCE representatives agreed that collaborating with their partnerlibrary or ASCE branch benefited their organization. ASCE volunteers valued librarians’ expertise inworking with youth and appreciated that they took the lead in planning program activities and logistics,which made it easier for volunteers to participate in outreach. Librarians acknowledged the dedication andenthusiasm of their ASCE partners and valued their content knowledge both because it exposed theirpatrons to real-life engineers, but also because it made library staff feel more comfortable presenting thistype of program
. Be in touch! Katey.Shirey@knowlesteachers.org9th-grade Units, Food Availability Theme 10th-grade Units, Water Theme(State standardized tests: Biology & Geometry) (State standardized tests: Chemistry & Algebra II)1) Design a flexible room plan to support productive 7) Create a water filter to be used at a specific site ingroup inquiry and learn about ratios, composite India, Canada, Australia, or Kenya and learn aboutfigures, nature of science, and defining a challenge. circles, Reimann Sums, chemical properties and site analysis.2) Design a portable microscope to identify pathogenson crops and learn about life, cells, optics
de Asuncion. Later the same year, he is appointed to lead the research department of the School of Engineering. From 2017 he is appointed to be the head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. He is currently working as the director of the Planning Directorate of the Paraguayan Space Agency. For his contributions to the Paraguayan society in the field of science and engineering, he was acknowledged as the ”Exceptional Protagonist of 2017” by the Ultimahora news, a major newspaper in Paraguay. Another distinction, the ”Outstanding Citizen Award,” was granted by the city council of the city of Asuncion in 2017.Dr. Derlis Ortiz CoronelLucas Domingo Moreira Bogado, Facultad de