Conference Session

Pre-College: Working with Teachers to Improve K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katey Shirey, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

engineering.Over many months of observation of both her physics and engineering instruction, I realized thatLeslie’s physics inquiry instruction resembled and seemed to support her engineering designinstruction, especially when she was nervous or in doubt. To write a story that encapsulated thesignificance of this realization, I returned to a time when Leslie struggled in engineering designinstruction but persevered; her first day in the Pumpkin Chunkin’ challenge. This paper focuseson that effort.LimitationsMy qualitative approach has several limitations. The sample size for this paper is one limiting thegeneralizability of my conclusions. I use descriptions of the data instead of abstractions of thedata, which provides a detailed narrative, but limits