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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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William Harrison Walls, Purdue University ; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University

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toreplace the projected attrition. This phenomenon is colloquially known as the “manufacturingskills gap,” and is immensely complex, with near-limitless contributing social andtechnological factors. In the 2018 Skills Gap in Manufacturing Study [1], industry executiveslist a few potential reasons for the projected shortage of talent; including the lack of interestin manufacturing careers due to misperceptions of the industry and a shift in the skills thatcutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes demand. According to [1], themanufacturing workforce is aging and in the next decade, there will be a shortage in talent tofill the nearly 2.6 million projected openings. In that same report, manufacturing executivesidentified “misperceptions of

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 5

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Carolyn Nichol, Rice University; Christina Anlynette Crawford, Rice University; Christopher Barr, Rice University; Isaias Cerda, Rice University

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evaluator and psychometric expert on several federally funded projects in education, natural science, and engineering. His focus is to conduct rigorous quantitative and qualitative measurement and program evaluation utiliz- ing validated assessment tools with published psychometric properties, qualitative rubrics with reliable scoring procedures, and developing and validating assessments in-line with the recommendations of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.Isaias Cerda , Rice University As the Associate Director for Science Education and English Language Learners for the Rice Office of STEM Engagement (R-STEM) and a former participant in our professional development programs, Isaias provides

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

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Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #34916An Instructional Approach to Engage Children with Autism to EngineeringDesignDr. Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology Hoda is a research faculty at the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in mechanical 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

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

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Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Heather Kaplan, University of Texas El Paso

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theStudio Habits of Mind as defined through studies in arts classrooms through Bers’ [8] [9] notionof Positive Technological Development. During the Creepy Carrots project, we witnessed manyof the aforementioned dispositions and the following discussion will describe a few instanceswhere the Studio Habits of Mind and the six C’s of Positive Technological Developmentintersected. In the interest of time, we have chosen to explore those intersections that were mostprevalent in our analysis. This is by no means an exhaustive analysis of the intersection of thesebehaviors in this study or possible in subsequent studies. The authors suggest that further studymay reveal additional connections and deepen complexity and understanding of theseintersections

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College; Trinity Borland, Wartburg College; Ripken Gehrig Holst, Wartburg College; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University

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Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Macedonia, Poland

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Zahraa Stuart, Stony Brook University; Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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interest andknowledge. Four different projects were designed: 1) a 3D-printed spirograph, 2) a night light, 3) anoptical intrusion detection with memory, and 4) a traffic light. Students who participated in the camp(N=56) built and optimized their own take-home electronic devices. Pre- and post-surveys were collectedto analyze the students’ engineering self-efficacy, knowledge, and engineering skills. Results suggestedthat students’ self-efficacy and beliefs in succeeding in engineering majors and careers increased aftertheir experiences in the camp; they also improved their engineering knowledge and skills (p

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua Alexéi García Sheridan, Virginia Tech; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech

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success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneurship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written two texts in Digital Electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Innovating Teamwork Instruction in High School: Using Pandemic (WIP)IntroductionTeamwork is an important aspect of the engineering profession. Criterion 3.d of the ABETStudent Outcomes for undergraduate engineering education states the need for anengineering graduate to have “an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams” [1]. Moregenerally, applied learning outcomes that teamwork

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Theresa Green, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University

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in the future [21]. DLI can be used to improve academic performance of women andunderrepresented students and encourage them to pursue technical pathways.Research GoalsWhile models of disciplinary literacy have been developed and disseminated in severalhumanities and science fields [10], little research on disciplinary literacy has been conducted inthe engineering domain. This research project aims to address this gap by developing anddisseminating a model of disciplinary literacy in engineering. This model will draw uponexperiences and literacy practices performed by engineers in the engineering workplace.Engineering literacy practices include how engineers read, evaluate, interpret, synthesize, andcommunicate information within their

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 12

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Ayse Asatekin, Tufts University ; Isadora Shamah, Tufts University; Abigail Anne Klotz; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Michael Forte, Tufts University; Russell Lincoln Shute

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/middleschoolchemeThis project was supported by NSF grant # 1553661

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PCEE Resource Exchange

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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this project is to teach students to understand basiccryptography techniques, how cryptography is used in protecting sensitivedata, understand the basics of Internet hygiene, and how social engineeringcan be used to steal your identity. The lesson is broken into 3 activities: (1) ModernSubstitution Ciphers: Caesar Cipher and other Basic Ciphers, (2) Modern Encryption:Encryption: Public-Key, and (3) Social Engineering: Mortimer’s Social Public-KeyMedia. In the Substitution Cipher activity, students will learn to use simple Introduction to Public

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NGSS & Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah E. Lopez, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University

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education in informal, traditional, distance, and professional environments. Dr. Goodridge currently teaches courses in ”Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in Engineering Education” and ”Engi- neering Mechanics: Statics.” Dr. Goodridge is an engineering councilor for the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and serves on ASEE’s project board. Dr. Goodridge actively consults for projects includ- ing the development of an online curriculum style guide for Siemens software instruction, development of engineering activities for blind and visually impaired youth, and the implementation and investigation of a framework of engineering content to incorporate into P-12 engineering education. c American

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Pre-College Engineering Education in the Formal Classroom

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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; Shelbi C. Smeathers , Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ji Yoon Jung, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Utkuhan Genc, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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observed measures of engagement items (~25 items) and their constructs? 2) How do students’ engagement change as a result of engaging in engineering design – based life sciences curriculum unit? This study is part of a larger longitudinal study that is being conducted in multiple middleschools located in the Midwest of the United States. The study presents the findings of thevalidation of the instrument used to evaluate students’ engagement and results of students’engagement change as a result of the pilot intervention in the first year of the project. The paper is characterized in six sections. Section II reviews the existing literature onmiddle school engagement. Section III provides an overview of the curriculum unit

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PCEE Resource Exchange

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Rush Leeker, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Paper ID #27369”Just Like Me”: Improving the Image of Engineering for Elementary SchoolStudentsMrs. Jessica Rush Leeker, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Jessica Rush Leeker earned her undergraduate degree from Penn State with a focus in Supply Chain and Information Systems and a minor in international business. She attended Purdue University, receiving an MBA with specialization in Sustainability and Operations. Before business school, Jessica spent a summer in Haiti, delivering shoes to those in need and creating a more efficient supply chain for urban water projects. Jessica has

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

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Meg E. West, Ohio State University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Patrick James Herak, Ohio State University; Bruce Wellman, Olathe Engineering Academy at Northwest High School; Todd France, Ohio Northern University

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Math Education, First Year Engineering Education conference and American Society for Engineering Education conference.Mr. Bruce Wellman, Olathe Engineering Academy at Northwest High School Bruce Wellman is a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT, Chemistry) who teaches Engineering Chemistry as part of Engineering Academy at Olathe Northwest High School in Olathe, KS and serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on an NSF funded (DR K-12) research project entitled ”Building Informed Designers”. Wellman is a member of ASEE’s Board of Directors’ Committee on P-12 Engineering Educa- tion. Wellman completed his B.S. degree in general science (focus in chemistry) at Penn State University and his M.S. in Education at the

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

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Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University; Jorge Americo Acosta Feliz

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of youths’ engineering-related workplacepractices by focusing on workplaces as a distinct resource for engineering-related funds ofknowledge. Ultimately, by better understanding how youths’ workplaces foster engineering-related funds of knowledge, the purpose of this study was to generate knowledge on how youths’assets, as derived from these places, might form the basis of assets-based engineering programsfor working youth in ways that recognize, amplify, and build from their workplace experiences. MethodsThis qualitative study draws from data generated from a prior ethnographic research project,designed to understand youths’ funds of knowledge in engineering, in which we studied thepractices of

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Best Practices in Out-of-School Time

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tawni Paradise, Virginia Tech; Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech; Kim Lester, Virginia Tech; Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Research Assistant on the VT PEERS project studying middle school students regularly engaging in engineering activities. Drawing on previous experiences as a mathematics and engineering teacher, her current re- search interests include studying the disconnect between home and school, with a specific emphasis on prekindergarten students. She will continue to pursue these research interests in the coming years with the support of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program. In addition, she dedicates her spare time to exhibiting at the Virginia Tech Science Festival and hosting several sessions for the Kindergarden-to- college (K2C) Initiative.Ms. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech Ashley Taylor is a doctoral

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Pre-College Engineering Education in the Formal Classroom

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shramana Ghosh, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Engineering, NY, USA. In this role she supports and studies use of robotics in K-12 STEM education. Her other research interests include robotics, mechanical design, and biomechanics.Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU’s 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

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Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, & Self-efficacy

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amanda C. Johnston, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Murat Akarsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Peter Wesley Odom, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Maurina Loren Aranda, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Richard Lie, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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developmentThis research is a part of a larger, 5-year study conducted to understand approaches toengineering integration in science curricula and classes. The research takes place within anNational Science Foundation funded project in which approximately 200 teachers of science ingrades 4–8 participate in develop engineering-based STEM integration curricular units forimplementation in their classrooms and later to be published online. Each summer, 50 teachersparticipate in a 3-week summer institute and then receive support through coaching andmentoring during the subsequent academic school year. In the summer workshops, teachersexplore engineering design and engineering practices through completing a variety of activities.An engineering education

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 2

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Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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Massachusetts, Boston c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Examining shared understandings of design artifacts in upper elementary school engineeringIntroductionWith the implementation of the Framework for K12 Science Education and the Next GenerationScience Standards in the United States, engineering is increasingly prevalent in the pre-collegeclassroom (NGSS Lead States, 2013). A typical way to incorporate engineering into K12education is through collaborative engineering design projects (NAE & NRC, 2009). This typeof project often requires students to present the group’s design work in a single representation,usually a co-constructed physical object (NRC, 2009). Though we

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 11

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Sana M. Syed, Saint Louis University; J. Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University; Shannon M. Sipes, Indiana University; Traci Aucoin; Adrienne Enriquez, Oregon GEAR UP; Kelsey Z. Musa, Saint Louis University; Rachel Bultas

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Learning. In this position she provides professional development programming & support to faculty on their own teaching and student learning. Additionally, she consults on assessment, DBER, and other forms of teaching & learning research. Her disciplinary background is in experimental psychology as well as curriculum & instruction with a focus on higher education.Mrs. traci aucoin Traci Aucoin is currently the Lafayette Parish School System GEAR UP Project Director. She has worked in education for 30 years and has been a part of the GEAR UP initiative for seven years. She began her career as a high school biology and physics teacher before she moved into higher education where she served the University

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 3

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Annmarie Elizabeth Hoch, Tufts University; Karen Miel, Tufts University; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Rebecca Deborah Swanson, Tufts University

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-12 educators to support engineering edu- cation in the classroom. She is also the founder of STOMP (stompnetwork.org), LEGOengineering.com (legoengineering.com) and the Teacher Engineering Education Program (teep.tufts.edu).Dr. Rebecca Deborah Swanson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Dr. Swanson is a postdoctoral research associate studying teacher learning in an online graduate-level engineering education program at Tufts University. Prior to joining the CEEO at Tufts, Dr. Swanson worked on research projects studying professional development of formal and informal science educators, learning through citizen science for adults and youth, and pre-service elementary teaching in informal science

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NGSS & Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Debra J. Coffey, University of Delaware

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providers, such as Project Lead The Way (PLTW) andEngineering Is Elementary (EiE), offer comprehensive curricula and professional learningopportunities in engineering education. These programs are high quality and provide an entrypoint into engineering education for K12 teachers with turnkey curricula; the engineering designlessons and activities are prescriptive and vary in the degree to which they explicitly address thescience concepts and skills inherent to the design problem. Moreover, PLTW and EiE are notexplicitly designed to address the performance expectations of NGSS. These performanceexpectations are intended to be the benchmark by which students’ proficiency of the grade-appropriate disciplinary core ideas, practices, and crosscutting

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 17

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Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Karin Brown, University of St. Thomas; Alison Haugh Nowariak, University of St. Thomas; Tami Brass, University of St. Thomas and St. Paul Academy and Summit School; Rebecca Ann Leininger, University of St. Thomas; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas

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. Thomas UniversityRebecca Ann Leininger, University of Saint Thomas I am an education student pursuing a degree and license in 5-8 general science and 9-12 life science. I am a member of the Playful Learning Lab and work on many projects through Ok Go Sandbox, with the Minnesota Children’s Museum as well as working on the STEPs engineering camp here at the University of Saint Thomas.Dr. AnnMarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas AnnMarie Thomas is a professor in the School of Engineering and the Opus Colluege of Business at the University of St. Thomas where she is the director of the UST Center for Engineering Education. Her research group, the Playful Learning Lab, focuses on engineering and design education for

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 11

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Sara Willner-Giwerc, Tufts University; Miela Efraim, Tufts University; Chris B. Rogers, Tufts University

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research done to confirm this. Rarely are the submissions to theseonline robotics competitions analyzed in an attempt to try and really understand more about whatstudents are learning. Our main goal in this project was to see what we could understand aboutstudent creativity and learning from analyzing online submissions. Typically researchersexamine the entire journey of students as they complete a robotics challenge, but we wanted tosee how much we could surmise in a situation where we were not able to capture these journeys.Our hope is that this analysis will inform future strategies for understanding student learningwhen full journeys can’t be captured, as well as build a lens that can inform the development ofonline robotics challenge prompts

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

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William A. Kitch, Angelo State University; Andrea L. Robledo, Angelo State University; Wanda James Green

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American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Program OverviewAngelo State University and Tom Green County Library have been collaborating in STEM outreachprograms for more than three years. The rocketry camp project started with a proof-of-conceptone-week camp in August 2018 with enrollment limited to twelve students, from 6 -12th grades.The students learned about the physics of rocketry, built model rocket kits, launched their rockets,analyzed the flight data gathered, and presented a workshop on rocketry for younger studentsthrough the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (SAMFA) STEM Family Day in August 2018. Duringthe summer of 2019, the camp expanded to include 33 students in a week-long, full-day camp

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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James A. Moore; Matthew Dailey; Zachary Wilhelm, University of Utah; Kerry Kelly, University of Utah; Pascal Goffin, University of Utah; Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Jason Wiese; Wei Xing, University of Utah; Katrina Myquyen Le, University of Utah; Thomas Becnel, University of Utah; Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon

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Paper ID #29467Engaging Pre-College Students in Hypothesis Generation using a CitizenScientist Network of Air Quality Sensors (Work in Progress)JAMES A MOOREMatthew Dailey Matthew Dailey is a student at the University of Utah pursuing a B.S in Chemical Engineering. He is pursuing graduate school with a focus on biosensors.Mr. Zachary Wilhelm, AirU Zachary Wilhelm is pursing his undergrad in Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah and is aspiring to get his PhD to continue research to understand and address environmental challenges. For this project his primary focus was organizing visits to local schools and

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Best Practices in Research & Assessment Tools for Pre-College Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston; Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston

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Paper ID #25223Measuring Fidelity of Implementation in a Large-Scale Research Study (RTP)Dr. Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston Cathy Lachapelle leads the EiE team responsible for assessment and evaluation of our curricula. This includes the design and field-testing of assessment instruments and research on how children use EiE materials. Cathy is particularly interested in how collaborative interaction and scaffolded experiences with disciplinary practices help children learn science, math, and engineering. Her work on other STEM education research projects includes the national Women’s Experiences in College

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 11

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Stacey L. Vaziri, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Liesl M. Baum, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marlena McGlothlin Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Phyllis Leary Newbill

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beliefs, experiences, and practicescharacterize community members or organizations who support or encourage rural students tochoose engineering?The interviews explored the participants’ perceptions of their community overall, resources thathelped students explore postsecondary options, barriers students faced to enrolling inpostsecondary education/engineering, understanding of engineering as a field both generally andfor students from that community, and ways Virginia Tech can be a better community partnerand fulfill its mission as a public institution. This project aims to broaden participation inengineering by gaining a holistic understanding of the communities that effectively supportengineering major choice for rural students and provide

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Elementary Engineering

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brenda M. Capobianco, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Lehman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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graduate courses in teacher action research and gender and culture in science education. Her research interests include girls’ participation in science and engineering; teacher’s engagement in action research; and science teachers’ integration of the engineering design process to improve science learning.James Lehman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. James D. Lehman is a Professor Emeritus of Learning Design and Technology and former Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Purdue University. He is member of the leadership teams of two current NSF-funded projects, Science Learning through Engineering Design (SLED) and Profes- sional Development for Computer Science (PD4CS). He holds a B.S. and M.S. in

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Computational Thinking in Pre-College Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dazhi Yang, Boise State University; Youngkyun Baek, Boise State University; Bhaskar Chittoori P.E., Boise State University; William H. Stewart, Boise State University

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of the finalbridges. The testing criteria were that the bridges had to remain intact and sustain certain weightplaced at different locations (e.g.. at the middle of the deck and at one end of the deck) whilebeing tested on a shake table. The following picture (Figure 1) shows a shake table built by theresearch team that was used for testing the bridges.Figure 1: Shake table for testingThe Bridge Design and Building Challenge program focused on CT literacy (e.g., CT concepts)and students’ ability (e.g., CT practices) to solve problems using CT (Grover & Pea, 2018),which are listed in Table 1. The program was guided by project-based learning (PBL) with adriving question, sub-questions, hands-on scientific inquiry (Buck Institute of