Paper ID #19311Using Modular Technology as a Platform to Study Youth Approaches to En-gineering Practice (Work in Progress)Jacqueline F. Handley, University of Michigan Jacqueline Handley is a graduate student at the University of Michigan, in Science Education. Her back- ground is in Material Science and Engineering, with an emphasis on Biomaterials Design. She is inter- ested in, broadly, how best bridge engineering practice and education. More specifically, she is interested in studying how students and teachers conceptualize and engage with engineering design practices, and how to increase access to engineering.Dr
Paper ID #16354Engineering Outreach on Campus: A Comprehensive Survey of 109 Pro-grams at 91 Colleges and Universities (Fundamental)Dr. Eric Iversen, Start Engineering Eric Iversen is the Vice President for Learning and Communications at Start Engineering. He has over 25 years experience in learning activities, encompassing work in non-profit, academic, and for-profit organizations. He was Manager of Public Affairs at ASEE, where he helped start many of the society’s K-12 engineering education activities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering Outreach on Campus: A
a Teaching of the Handicapped certificate in the state of New Jersey.Ms. Rosa M. Cano, New Jersey Institute of Technology c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Comparisons of a Female-only, Male-only and Mixed Gender Engineering Enrichment Program for 4th GradersAbstractThe benefits and relative effectiveness of single-gender education are still unclear and moreresearch is necessary before strong conclusions can be formed. Results of previous evaluationscomparing aspects of female-only summer enrichment programs to equivalent mixed-genderprograms has shown female-only programs to be particularly effective in educating young girlsabout engineering and positively
Paper ID #17630A Comparative Study of Educator Backgrounds and Their Effect on StudentUnderstanding of the Engineering Design Process and Engineering Careers,Utilizing an Underwater Robotics Program (RTP)Dr. J. Adam Scribner Ed.D., Stevens Institute of Technology Manager of STEM Outreach for the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017A Comparative Study of Educator Backgrounds and Their Effect on StudentUnderstanding of the Engineering Design Process and Engineering Careers
Paper ID #15549Adding Meaningful Context to Robotics Programs (Work in Progress)Dr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. Nina Mahmoudian, Michigan Technological University Dr. Nina Mahmoudian is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Department at Michigan Technological University. She is the founding
Paper ID #18649Motivation Factors for Middle and High School Students in Summer RoboticsProgram (Fundamental)Dr. Michele Miller, Campbell University In 2017, Dr. Michele Miller joined Campbell University as a Professor and Associate Dean in their new School of Engineering. Prior to that, she was a professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University where she did research on precision grinding, micro sensors, and engineering education. She received a PhD from North Carolina State University in mechanical engineering.Dr. Nina Mahmoudian, Michigan Technological University Dr. Nina Mahmoudian is an
University Institute of Technology Kenan Hatipoglu is an assistant professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. He completed his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Louisville, Kentucky in 2008 and joined Tennessee Tech University in 2009 to pursue his Ph.D. in Electrical (Power) Engineering. He completed his graduate study in August 2013. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Education from Department of Electrical Education in Faculty of Technical Education and Technology Engineering at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2005. His current research interests include smartgrid and microgrid applications
. Hirsch has extensive experience conducting longitudinal research studies and is proficient in database management, experimental design, instrument development, psychometrics and statistical programming.Dr. Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology HOWARD KIMMEL is Professor-Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Retired Executive Director of the Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr. Kimmel has continued to provide his services, as needed, for Teacher Training, Curriculum Development and technical services with a focus on alignment of teaching practices with the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. He has spent over forty years designing
Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology in 2012, and he is currently an associate professor. His current research interests include wireless power transmission, radar systems, microwave remote sensing, antenna design, and computational electromagnetics. He was the recipient of the first prize award in the student paper competition of the IEEE International Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Boston, MA in 2001. He served as the chair of Antennas and Propagation Society of IEEE Fort Worth Chapter from 2006 to 2011. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Summer STEM Camp for Girls
-based implementation research, and fidelity of implementation. Dr. Gale has a particular interest in project-based engineering in elementary school communities and the socio-cultural dimensions of pre-college engineering education. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Studies from Emory University.Dr. Jeremy Lingle, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jeremy Lingle is a Research Faculty at the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, & Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies in Research, Measurement, and Statistics in 2010 from Georgia State University. His primary research focus is upon measurement of 21st Century
. food webs, and species interactions (1-2 class periods) Lesson 4: Designing pelican To apply an engineering design process that includes nests (3-4 class periods) identifying criteria and constraints, designing a prototype, testing and evaluating the prototype, and redesigning the product. Lesson 5: Relocating pelican To use geographic information system technologies to make chicks using GIS (1 class predictions about appropriate places to locate pelican chicks. period) Lesson 6: Socio-scientific To enhance socio-scientific reasoning skills by recognizing
Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics and Control Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a GK-12 Fellows project, and a DR K-12 research 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 control system technology. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations, he has con- ducted significant K-12 education, training, mentoring, and
Preparing Students for Engineering Success through Improving 3-D Spatial SkillsAbstract Three-dimensional spatial skills have been shown to be critical to success invariety of STEM fields. In particular, spatial skills have been linked to success inengineering and in learning to program in computer science. Unfortunately, of allcognitive processes, 3-D spatial skills exhibit some of the most robust genderdifferences, favoring males, which could have serious implications as we attemptto increase gender diversity in our engineering programs. Spatial skills are notusually a part of the formal instruction in the pre-college classroom, meaning thatmany of our students enroll in our engineering programs deficient in these
habits of mind. Thesehabits of mind describe how values, attitudes, and thinking skills are linked to engineering.Computational thinking has also previously been linked to engineering beyond simplyprogramming by Wing in 2006. Wing defined computational thinking as the overlap betweenmathematical thinking and engineering thinking.In 2011, The Computational Thinking Teacher Resources developed as the result of acollaboration between the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the InternationalSociety for Technology and Education (ISTE). This collaboration produced a list ofcharacteristics that define and describe computational thinking and its qualities. In 2012, Googlealso released a list of computational thinking competencies and they
frequent collaborator with the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy on issues of cultural intelligence, mentorship, and youth leadership in STEM. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relation from William Jewell College, and a Master of Public Policy from Pepperdine University. He is currently working on his Doctorate of Education degree (interdisciplinary leadership focus) at Creighton University.Ms. Brittany Boyd, National Society of Black Engineers c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Classroom Instructors’ Perceptions of Site Leadership and Interest Outcomes within aSummer Engineering Program (Evaluation)ABSTRACTTo help address the issue of
; has produced award winning curriculum design and reform for secondary and post-secondary Career and Technical Education programs; and provides a variety of professional development for SETM and technology secondary and post-secondary educators focused on advanced technologies. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from the University of South Florida, where her research focused on mem- brane separation science and technologies for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curricula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school, and post secondary
Paper ID #15172Failure and Idea Evolution in an Elementary Engineering Workshop (Fun-damental)Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Chelsea Andrews is a Ph.D. candidate at Tufts University in the STEM education program. She received a B.S. from Texas A&M University in ocean engineering and an S.M. from MIT in civil and environmen- tal engineering. Her current research includes investigating how children engage in engineering design through in-depth case study analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Failure and Idea Evolution in an
government have called for increasingthe enrollment of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) as lessthan 20 percent of those earning bachelor’s degrees in engineering are women 1. According tothe Congressional Joint Economic Committee, about 14 percent of practicing engineers arewomen 2. Multiple organizations and governmental agencies have invested in STEM educationprograms to research the gender disparity. Possible reasons that have been raised regarding lowfemale and minority engineering rates include misconceptions of what engineers do 3, lack ofrole models in engineering 4, and a shortage of engineering experiences for girls in earlyeducation 5. In spite of informal STEM programs out of the classroom, there has been
STEM and supporting teacher professional development related to engineering education. His research interests include engineering education, design thinking and teaching failure. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering First: How Engineering Design Thinking Affects Science Learning The integration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)disciplines has been emphasized over the past decade in many reform documents1, 2.These fields hold promise for filling jobs of the future, and schools across the countryhave developed STEM programs or adopted STEM initiatives to meet the growingneeds and interests of students, as well as the changing needs of the
University and is a former high school science and technology teacher. Her research interest includes improving students learning of science and engineering through integrated STEM curricula.Prof. Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and Director of STEM Integration in the INSPIRE Institute at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for
Paper ID #15613Engineering Adventure for Youth GenerationsProf. Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council Dr. Claudio da Rocha Brito is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently is the Pres- ident of Science and Education Research Council (COPEC), President Elect of IEEE Education Society (2015-2016), President of Fishing Museum Friends Society (AAMP), President of (Brazilian) National Monitoring Committee of ”Internationale Gesellschaft f¨ur Ingenieurp¨adagogik” (IGIP), Vice President of International Council for Engineering and Technology Education (INTERTECH), Vice President of
Paper ID #19767Making Meaning through Art-Integrated EngineeringDr. Kerry Dixon, Ohio State University Kerry Dixon is a specialist in interdisciplinary education, with particular focus on integrating visual art into science, technology, engineering and math. Formerly a member of the curatorial staff at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kerry has also directed two education nonprofit organizations. As director of those organizations, she partnered with The Ohio State University on the creation of a national model for preparing future secondary teachers with a specialization in urban education. In that role, she
Engineering course to incoming freshmen and lead the first ever Summer Engineering Experience for Students with Visual Impairments or Blindness at NC State University. She is also the Program Manager for the NSF funded Grand Challenges Themed Research Experience for Teachers program at NC State University.Mrs. Diane Brauner, Perkins School for the Blind Diane Brauner is an educational accessibility consultant currently collaborating with Perkins School for the Blind to create and manage the Paths to Technology - a website for educators to learn and stay current on technology for students with visual impairments and blindness (VIB). With the accessibility team at SAS, Diane has participated in a variety of assistive
experiences (NAE andNRC, 2014). These schools are responding to the public’s demands for STEM and STEAMeducation and to the inclusion of engineering in the Next Generation Science Standards (NRC,2013). Accordingly, a growing number of organizations offer K-5 curriculum materials thatinclude engineering design challenges, such as Engineering is Elementary (EiE), PictureSTEM,FOSS Next Generation Edition, LEGOEngineering, TeachEngineering, PBS Design Squad, andmore. After elementary educators make curricular choices from the range of options, their nextdecisions are often about scaffolds, technological tools, classroom norms, differentiationstrategies, and other instructional supports. They might ask: what instructional supports can weadd to engineering
to his graduate work in the United States, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Malaysia and has participated in research projects involving offshore structures in Malaysia. As a graduate part-time instructor at Texas Tech University, he teaches an intro- ductory course in engineering to freshmen undergraduate students. He has taught at Texas Tech University since the fall of 2013.Mr. Siddhartha Gupta, Texas Tech University Siddhartha Gupta is a third-year PhD student in the department of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and subsequently worked as shift engineer for two years with a Fortune 500 chemical company
. Besser, a licensed engineer, was a design engineer with HNTB-CA, where she worked on seismic retrofits and new design of high profile transportation structures.Ms. Alison Haugh, University of St. Thomas Alison Haugh is a recent graduate from the University of St.Thomas with degrees in Elementary Edu- cation, STEM Education, and a focus in Engineering Education. Her undergraduate research with the Playful Learning Lab focused on expanding quality engineering education with an eye to under-served populations, including students with disabilities, emphasizing learning through play. Alison was the Lead STEPS (Science, Technology, and Engineering Preview program) curriculum constructor and continues to be an off-site
data and the ethnographic datawill be available in the future. ReferencesAmerican Printing House for the Blind (2015). Distribution of eligible students based on the federal quota census of January 6, 2014. Available: http://www.aph.org/federal- quota/distribution-2015/Beck-Winchatz, B. & Riccobono, M. (2008). Advancing participation of blind students in science, technology, engineering, and math. Advances in Space Research, 42, 1855- 1858.Jones, M.G., Monogue, J., Oppewal, T., Cook, M.P., & Broadwell, B. (2006). Visualizing without vision at the microscale: Students with visual impairments explore cells without touch. Journal of Science Education and Technology
ensuring students and teachers in many K-12 classrooms across theUS will be engaged with engineering education. The framework upon which the NGSSis based states, “Students should learn how science is used, in particular through theengineering design process, and they should come to appreciate the distinctions andrelationships between engineering, technology, and the applications of science”2.Science and engineering complement each other in many ways, but teach studentsdifferent, yet equally important, skill sets. “If the core of science is discovery, then theessence of engineering is creation”3. The challenge of including engineering in schoolprograms is evident4, especially at the elementary level where time dedicated to scienceinstruction is far
Engineering (WECE) study. Cathy received her S.B. in cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University.Dr. Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science Dr. Christine Cunningham is an educational researcher who works to make engineering and science more relevant, accessible, and understandable, especially for underserved and underrepresented populations. A vice president at the Museum of Science, Boston since 2003, she founded and directs Engineering is ElementaryTM , a groundbreaking project that integrates engineering concepts into elementary curriculum and teacher professional development. As of September 2014, EiE has served 6.2 million
Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST).Prof. Jesse S. Jur, North Carolina State University Dr. Jesse Jur is an Assistant Professor of Textile Engineering, Chemistry & Science at NC State Uni- versity’s College of Textiles, a position he has held since 2011. A graduate of The University of South Carolina, he received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from N.C. State and has spent the last 12+ years researching primarily at the nanoscale. His research now focuses on applying the use of innovative materials methods to create functional electronic-textiles. Through this research, Dr. Jur is the technology leader for Human Factors and Integration in a