Montironi, M. A., & Eliahu, D. S., & Cheng, H. H. (2015, June), A Robotics-Based 3D Modeling Curriculum for K-12 Education    Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23443

\bibitem{asee_peer_23443}
  Montironi, M. A., \& Eliahu, D. S., \& Cheng, H. H. (2015, June), \emph{A Robotics-Based 3D Modeling Curriculum for K-12 Education  }
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.23443

Maria Alessandra Montironi, Daniel S Eliahu, and Harry H. Cheng.  "A Robotics-Based 3D Modeling Curriculum for K-12 Education  ".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/23443 Internet.  23 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_23443}
  Maria Alessandra Montironi, Daniel S Eliahu, and Harry H. Cheng.
  "A Robotics-Based 3D Modeling Curriculum for K-12 Education  ".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/23443 Internet.  23 Dec, 2024

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AB  -            Preliminary Design and Evaluation of a 3D Modeling               Curriculum for K-12 Education. (Evaluation)AbstractThis paper presents a new curriculum designed for teaching 3D modeling tools to K-12students. In particular, the curriculum is developed for middle school and high schoolstudents to teach them the most common practices used in Mechanical Engineering whendesigning new parts. As widely studied and suggested by new standards, such as the NextGeneration Science Standards (NGSS), in order to be able to succeed in STEM releateddegrees and jobs, students need to be exposed as early as possible to concepts and pracitcestypical to the world they are going to live and work in. Moreover, they need to learn thecomplexity of real-world systems as well as their interdisciplinarity. To fulfill these objectives,the curriculum here presented focuses on designing and 3D printing components for theLinkbot modular robots. These are educational robots developed at Barobo, Inc. incollaboration with the UC Davis C-STEM Center. Other curricula have already beendeveloped by C-STEM center to use these robots as a teaching support in Maths classes andas an introduction to Programming. Therefore this 3D modeling curriculum can be easilyintegrated with the robotics and computing ones, providing a deeper insight in the complexityof how different engineering disciplines interlace in the process of designing and programminga robot. The curriculum described in this section is composed of five sections where studentscan learn the basics and good practices of 3D modeling using Autodesk Inventor or SolidWorks, the modeling softwares commonly used in Mechanical Engineering design applications.A series of exercises then allows students to experiment on what they just learned. Resultsfrom surveys conducted after two one-week-long summer camps held by the UC DavisC-STEM Center (http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/curriculum/c-stem-summer-camps/) where thecurriculum was tested are definitely positive. They mainly show that students felt challengedby a task typically performed by "real engineers" and proud to being able to design and 3Dprint their own idea.
AU  - Maria Alessandra Montironi
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