students in the United Statesare prepared for a pathway to STEM degrees in college. In addition to new engineering activities addedto science class, various types of dual credit engineering courses for high school students are offeredalong with plans for an Advanced Placement (AP) introduction to engineering course in the comingyears. Dual credit introduction to engineering courses, like the NSF-funded Engineering For US All(E4USA) project, are poised to offer high school students rigorous engineering content and theopportunity for college credit [2].1.1 Background- ENGR 102 HS dual credit programENGR 102 HS is one such dual credit engineering course that is modeled after the introduction coursefor engineering majors at the University of Arizona
BS degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his MS (1980) and DE (1983) degrees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His educa- tion and research interests include project management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and embedded product/system development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Professional Development Activities for SecondarySTEM Teachers and Students’ Engineering Content Knowledge and AttitudesAbstractTo promote an integrated Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (STEM) educationin K-12 school levels and cultivate STEM literacy in the society, there is a growing interest
State University.Dr. Vitaliy Popov, University of Michigan Vitaliy Popov is an Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. His research focuses on understanding, designing, and evaluating learning technologies and environments that foster collaborative problem solving, spatial reasoning, engineering design thinking and agency. He is currently serving as a co-principal investigator on three projects funded by the National Science Foundation ranging from studying visuospatial skills development through origami to applying multimodal learning analytics in teamwork and understanding the mechanisms of an A-ha! moment. Dr. Popov completed his Ph.D. on computer-supported
Orientation ● Orientation module ● Welcome ● Program overview ● Intro to RET program 1 ● Required trainings ● Research presentations ● Knowledge Check ● Q&A Conducting Center ● Research/ Curriculum Dev. module ● Curriculum development Research/ Curriculum ● Center research projects ● Research presentations 2 Development ● Lesson plan expectations ● Industry presentation ● Knowledge Check
. Randy Russell. He provides expertise in Out of School Time (OST) programming with student supports and STEM education. Ristvey coordinates each of the teams and lead the design team as well as the work of the advisory board. He has conducted extensive research and development work in STEM OST projects such as Cosmic Chemistry (Institute for Educational Sciences, Department of Education) and NanoExperiences. Ristvey was the PI for three NSF-funded projects: NanoLeap, NanoTeach and NanoExperiences. He also was the lead developer for the Dynamic Design series of engineering modules for NASA’s Genesis mission. He holds a Master’s degree in Secondary Science Education from University of Houston, Clear Lake, TX.Dr. Randy
Paper ID #26385How Educators Implement Engineering Curricula in OST Settings (Funda-mental)Dr. Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University Dr. Nena Bloom is an evaluator and education researcher at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University. The primary area of her work is evaluating STEM education projects that focus on opportunities for, and retention of, K-20 students in STEM areas, majors and fields. She also conducts education research focusing on questions about professional development for educators and how educators support student learning in STEM.Dr. Elisabeth Roberts, Northern
Paper ID #32523Elementary Students Learn How To Engineer Online (RTP)Dr. Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein-Gardner’s career in P-12 STEM education focuses on increasing interest in and participation by females and URMs and on teacher professional development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedi- cal Engineering at Vanderbilt University where she serves as the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For US All (e4usa) project. Dr. Klein-Gardner formerly served as the chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Board of Directors’ P12 Commission and the Pre-College
Paper ID #27665Parental Influence on Children’s Computational Thinking in an Informal Set-ting (Fundamental Research)Mr. Carson Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette Undergraduate Student in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering at Purdue UniversityMs. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her
, we shifted our focus to actively trying to concentrate our outreach efforts in those communities and for those young students. A short summary of our outreach efforts may be found in [4].The research reported in this paper is part of our efforts to quantify the value of this work and to understand how we might scale this project up to have a greater impact than it has so far.Research efforts overviewThe intent of this research project was to document the stories of outreach graduate coordinatorsover the past six years. We hypothesized that by capturing the stories of the graduatecoordinators we might be able to paint a linear picture of the outreach efforts of the program overtime. Yet, after hearing stories and
for Educational Services c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #28617 Kate Lytton is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Collaborative for Educational Services, overseeing program evaluation, strategic planning, and quality improvement projects across a variety of preK-12 educational contexts and community systems. Lytton brings experience in social research, including needs assessment, strategic planning, evaluation design, survey research, and mixed methods approaches to studies of educator professional development, teacher preparation, instructional innovation
vocabulary, and basicin-class activities. Teachers are expected to review these materials and prepare questions to askthe Hk Maker Lab program team during the subsequent virtual workshops. Table 1 provides an overview of the virtual workshop schedule. The teachers and Hk MakerLab project team virtually meet using online conference tools (appear.in, Google Hangout,Skype, etc.) The engineering design process is previewed, providing teachers with theopportunity to ask the program team preliminary questions about the design process. This givesthe program team the opportunity to share their knowledge of the engineering design process,engineering design pedagogy, technical vocabulary, hands-on research, and engineeringexperience. Reciprocally, teachers
State University scientists, engineers, and graduate students to develop and deliver professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers. Gabe’s primary focus of work is creating professional development opportunities for elementary teachers related to STEM education. Gabe has extensive experience in public education having taught for 16 years in the classroom. During this time he taught math and science classes in grades 4, 5, and 6 as well as teaching middle school technology courses for grades 6-8. He also has taught all subjects in an inclusion classroom for several years. Gabe facilitated his classroom by engaging his students in an interdisciplinary thematic format as well as using project-based and
University - Engineering Education Kurt Becker is the current director for the Center for Engineering Education 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
placements for preservice elementary teachers, by grade Grade K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Total Placements 30 20 14 16 23 18 121 Each PET was expected to teach at least one lesson in each of the four content areas, aswell as to be evaluated by the CT. For science methods, a short engineering design project wassubstituted for the science teaching requirement. A previous study by the author [13] showed thatteaching engineering self-efficacy increased as a result of this approach. Engineering Mini-Units (EMU) were designed to be two-day experiences to introduceK-5 students to the engineering design process (EDP). Preservice
Paper ID #25283Analyzing Successful Teaching Practices in Middle School Science and MathClassrooms when using Robotics (Fundamental)Mrs. Veena Jayasree Krishnan, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Veena Jayasree Krishnan received a Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree in Mechatronics from Vel- lore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India in 2012. She has two years of research 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
of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Her scholarly goal is to broaden STEM participation for socially marginalized groups by designing constructionist learning envi- ronments and mobile technologies to empower youth, families, and informal educators. Previously, she worked as a project manager to develop smartphones. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Motives, Conflicts and Mediation in Home Engineering Design Challenges as Family Pedagogical Practices (Fundamental) AbstractMuch is known about the importance of the family as
Northridge (CSUN). In 2009, he moved to Texas to work at the Science and 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, 2020 Student Dispositions Toward STEM: Exploring an Engineering Summer Camp for Underrepresented Students (Work in Progress)IntroductionEngineering fields continue to evolve and grow rapidly [1], resulting in an increasing demand forskilled workers [2]. However, representation within engineering fields is often inequitable, withwomen, Latinos, and African
camp program.The logistics were co-determined by the participating institutions and were based on the planned,annual activities of the experienced outreach organization. The experiences of the US studentcohort mirrored the activities (on a modified timeline) that participating Canadian studentsendured. For this project, we worked within a qualitative research paradigm to explore theelements of the collaboration. Data collection thus far for the project was conducted through twomethods: document analysis and open-ended survey. Document analysis examined the physicalartifacts [9] from the Canadian and US outreach groups, including agenda, program schedules,manuals, curriculum documents, and training materials. Documents were assessed
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
of the ten winning teams in Verizon’s ’5G EdTech Challenge’, contributing in the development of several educational virtual reality applications.Dr. Nikos Makris, University of Thessaly Nikos Makris is a Research Engineer working for University of Thessaly, Greece. He received his B. Eng. in 2011, his M. Sc. degree in Computer Science and Communications in 2013 and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2019 from the same department. Since 2011, he has been participating in several collaborative research projects with University of Thessaly. During the summers of 2018 and 2019, he was a visiting scientist in New York University (NYU) working in the outreach activities of the COSMOS project. His
, domain-general, and task-specificself-efficacy). The EDSE scale is a frequently cited measure that examines task-specific self-efficacy within the domain of engineering design. This scale has been primarily used byresearchers and practitioners with engineering undergraduate students to assess changes in theirengineering design self-efficacy as a result of active learning interventions, such as project-basedlearning [14-16]. Our work has begun to experiment with the use of this scale in a secondaryeducation context. There is a need to examine score validity and reliability of this scale in non-undergraduate populations to better understand the trustworthiness of the measure with otherpopulations (e.g., secondary students).The following study is
an investigation to gather evidence to compare the structure ofsubstances at the bulk scale to infer the strength of electrical forces between particles.Practices: Apply scientific principles and evidence to provide an explanation of phenomena andsolve design problems, taking into account possible unanticipated effects. (HS-PS1-5)Alignment to Project Lead The Way:PLTW Unit 1 Design Process; PLTW Unit 6 Reverse Engineering.References[1] National Academy of Engineering, NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering. Washington, DC:National Academies Press, 2008.[2] J.M. Lakin, V.A. Davis, and E.W. Davis. “Finding fit: Alignments between career values and futurecareer as predictors of engineering commitment for women and underrepresented minority
Paper ID #33733Curriculum Resources for Incorporating Cutting-edge Neurotechnologiesinto Secondary STEM ClassroomsDr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman, University of Washington Kristen Clapper Bergsman is a learning scientist, STEM program manager, and curriculum designer. She is the Engineering Education Research Manager at the Center for Neurotechnology at the University of Washington and the Curriculum Design Project Lead at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Bergsman owns Laughing Crow Curriculum, a consulting firm offering support in STEM curriculum design and publication. Previously, she was a graduate researcher at
Paper ID #28761Teaching concepts of ’scale-up’ from chemistry to chemical engineeringusing process flow diagrams (Resource Exchange)D’Andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., BrainSTEM Alliance D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (CMTE) at the University of Toronto. She worked for several years as a Professional Chemical Engineer in the Athabasca Oil Sands, before taking a Project Management role in Research & Innovation at York University. D’Andre is the founder the STEM education consulting
rewarded with a Nintendo Labo VR kit with the successful completion of his or herworkshop. Lessons learned from these workshops including the need of increasing the durationof the workshops and feedback from the participants are also included in this paper, and will beemployed in improving these workshops. The workshops will also be offered at the elementaryschool level and utilized in other outreach events such as Carnegie Science Center Sci-TechFestivals and the National Engineers Week events. The paper is concluded with future possibleoutreach project ideas, based on the technical programming content and ability of NintendoSwitch development environment and the Labo VR kits.Introduction and Literature ReviewNintendo Switch development
from an internal grant opportunity by a group ofalumna and friends of WPI to support women in STEM [1]. In the very first iteration of theprogram, the goal was to enable high school women to engage in hands-on STEM research instate of the art research laboratories under the guidance of women graduate student role modelsfor a semester (10-12 weeks).By having the research projects supervised by graduate students, we did not have to burdenfaculty members (although they needed to approve their graduate student’s participation in theprogram) and the graduate students had opportunity to develop their skills in scoping a shortresearch project and mentoring younger students. Furthermore, to compensate the graduatestudents for their time and effort, a
serving as a high school engineering/technology teacher and a teaching assistant professor within the College of Engineering & Mineral Resources at West Virginia University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 M-Arch: Building an Arch bridge using Trigonometry Designed by Euisuk Sung, Scott Bartholomew, Greg Strimel, and Seokyoung Kwon Contact information: Euisuk Sung (sunge@purdue.edu) This project aims to integrate STEM content with advanced Lesson Overview mathematical concepts through a hands-on activity. The lesson, titled M-Arch, is designed to teach concepts
Indiana University. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Engineering and Technology Teacher Education at Purdue University. He has computer science degree and worked as a computer software developer for three years. then he served as an engineering and technology educator in high school for 9 years in South Korea. Currently he is working in NSF Funded project, titled TRAILS. His research interests are design cognition, maker education, computer science education, and all about STEM education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Development of an Engineering Identity and Career Aspirations Survey for use with Elementary Students [Work in Progress]IntroductionDue to
Assistant Professor in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) and the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University. Dr. Berhane’s research interests transfer students who first enroll in community colleges, as well as developing broader and more nuanced engineering performance indicators.Dr. Eunsil Lee, Florida International University Eunsil Lee is a postdoctoral associate in School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineer- ing Education and the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University (FIU). At FIU, Eunsil is working on the BEST and E4USA projects that aim to broaden participation in engineering. She recently completed
chemistry. He is currently involved in a research project that aims to develop an observation protocol for STEM lessons and relevant training materials that are directed at improving the quality of STEM instruction in K-12 spaces. His primary research interests include assessment of student learning in STEM contexts, exploration of how integrated STEM is enacted in the secondary level (especially in chemistry classes), and assessment and promotion of students’ conceptual understanding of chemical concepts.Khomson Keratithamkul, University of Minnesota Khomson Keratithamkul is a PhD candidate in the STEM Education program at the University of Min- nesota. His research interests primarily revolve around K-12 STEM education