Seattle, Washington
June 14, 2015
June 14, 2015
June 17, 2015
978-0-692-50180-1
2153-5965
Evaluation: Technology and Tools for K-12 Engineering Education
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
8
26.97.1 - 26.97.8
10.18260/p.23438
https://peer.asee.org/23438
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Dr. Geoffrey A. Wright is an associate professor of Technology and Engineering Education in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology.
I am currently a PhD candidate at Brigham Young University. My research is focused around the fluid dynamics associated with the oblique free surface of highly deformable spheres. I have conducted research on urinal splash dynamics, which simplifies to droplet impacts into thin liquid films. This work was featured by the BBC and Wired magazine. I also work as a volunteer administrator for an ROV outreach program in central Utah known as Utah Underwater Robotics and study the affect of this program on student interest in STEM education.
Tadd Truscott’s current research interests are in fluid dynamics, novel imaging and experimental methods. By merging different areas of research, he works on problems such as three-dimensional flow field dynamics of rising spheres and cavitation. Tadd received his B.S in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah, and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Ph.D. in Ocean and Mechanical Engineering. He is presently an assistant professor at Brigham Young University, but will join the faculty at Utah State University in 2015.
A Remotely Operated Vehicle Scaffolded Activity is Increasing Student and Teacher Interest in STEM – a Reporting on a Three-‐year Study Funded by the Office of Naval Research For the past three years a university in the western United States has worked to build a scaffolded activity, using curriculum from STEM content areas within an ROV building activity. The activity requires students to learn various basic STEM principles including buoyancy, pressure, density, hydrodynamics, electronics, and the engineering design process, while designing, building, testing, and competing with a personally-‐built ROV. Our data over the past three years shows that student (n = 437) interest in math, science, engineering, and technology has increased along with their proficiency in problem solving methods. We believe this is a reflection of embedding STEM principles in an exciting, hands-‐on activity. Data regarding teacher self-‐efficacy in teaching these principles within the framework of this activity also shows that, although teachers were initially apprehensive about having to integrate STEM principles into the ROV activity, their perceptive abilities and to do so increased. This paper outlines the three-‐year study, detailing the ROV activity, associated curriculum taught, measurement tools used to aggregate the student and teacher data points, and associated results.
Wright, G., & Hurd, R. C., & Hacking, K. S., & Truscott, T. T. (2015, June), A Remotely Operated Vehicle Scaffolded Activity is Increasing Student and Teacher Interest in STEM – A Reporting on a Three-year Study Funded by the Office of Naval Research Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23438
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