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Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Charles H. Reilly, University of Central Florida; Diane Johnson, University of Central Florida; Leslie Castner, University of Central Florida

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AC 2012-3204: EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS: THE IMPACT OF A ONE-DAY STEM CONFERENCE ON MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS’ AND PAR-ENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD STEM CAREERSDr. Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida Lisa Massi is the Director of Operations Analysis in the UCF College of Engineering & Computer Sci- ence. Her primary responsibilities include accreditation, assessment, and data administration. She is a Co-PI of a NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the ”Young Entrepreneur & Scholar (YES) Scholarship Program.” Her research interests include factors that impact student persistence to graduation and STEM career intentions.Dr. Charles H. Reilly, University of Central Florida Charles H. Reilly is the Associate Dean

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Engaging Families and Exciting Girls with Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University

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Assessing the Impact of Active Learning on Students in Grades 3- 8 and Their Parents during GK-12 Outreach Program Administered Family STEM NightsAbstractRAMP-UP administered Family STEM Nights are supported by North Carolina StateUniversity and are held at public elementary or middle schools in Wake Countythroughout the school year. They are an opportunity for parents to bring their children toschool in the evening to learn about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)through fun, hands-on activities. The outreach program brings the activities to theschool, sets them up and administers them. Each activity is designed from everydaymaterials to teach parents and children that STEM fields exist and are learnable

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Impacts on K-12 Student Identity, Career Choice, and Perceptions of Engineers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly A.S. Howard, Boston University; Jacob William Diestelmann, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Tsu-Lun Huang; Lauren E. Aneskavich; Kevin Cheng; Benjamin Bryan Crary, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jean DeMerit, UW–Madison; Tam Mayeshiba, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Amy K. Schiebel, Edgewood College; Susan C. Hagness, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steven M. Cramer P.E., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy E. Wendt, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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toevaluate whether students’ self-reported social cognitive beliefs towards math and sciencediffered by membership in either the pilot curriculum or a comparison group. This study is partof a larger endeavor to understand the impact that engaging with the engineering-basedcurriculum has on student beliefs about, exploration of, and interest in STEM-relatedoccupations generally, and engineering-related occupations specifically. This paper will focus onsocial cognitive outcomes only, based on surveys completed by participating and comparisonstudent groups before and after instruction using the pilot curriculum during the 2012-13academic year.Theoretical & Empirical FoundationsEmerging from the application of Bandura’s social cognitive theory5,6 to

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Broadening Participation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston

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-solving have also shown benefits for the achievement and attitudes ofurban minority students, particularly African-American boys [45]. With open-ended activities,students can more readily make connections with their interests and prior experiences, and theyhave more reason to listen to and respect the views of others [46].In the real world, engineering problems rarely have one unique solution—much depends oncontext and constraints. To communicate this feature of engineering to children; to fostercreativity, problem solving, and innovative thinking; and to engage children who may havechecked-out of rigid school activities that must result in one answer, EiE creates designchallenges that afford a myriad of solutions. The challenges identify a set

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Linking K-12 to Post-secondary

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alok K. Verma P.E., Old Dominion University

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fromcommunity college instructors from the Year 2 cohort; providing a local level mentorshipmodel rather than an expert-delivery model of instruction and support. These teachers, inturn, will integrate Marine Career Tech topics, content, and modules into their localinstructional practices. During the next year, we expect to collect impact data on middleand high school as well as continued community college knowledge integration related tothe project materials. Dispositions from instructors indicated they were aligned with program goals and thepotential to impact their students, as evidenced by reasons they chose to participate: Figure 4 Reasons I joined the program (sorted by very important)The Figure 4, sorted by the highest

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Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

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intocollege. Students learn Electronic Communication Technologies through an intense loadof hands-on activities closely coordinated with theoretical classroom discussion focusingon exciting real-world engineering applications of a variety of communication systems.The course attendees responded an end of course survey to assess the success of thecourse in achieving its goal in terms of impacting students’ knowledge on engineeringand on the specific subject, and attitude towards college education and STEM areas. Thesurvey results revealed, among other findings, that students’ interest in college educationfurther increased. These results will assist us to refine our goals, and on the development

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Engineering Collaboration: Faculty & Student in K-12 Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rajesh Ganesan, George Mason University; Philip Henning, James Madison University; Donna Sterling, George Mason University

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training, exchange of information, andintegration of scientific research from diverse STEM disciplines with teaching to make scienceexciting for students. Sponsored by NSF's GK-12 program, the GMU implementation serves asan exemplary model for the emerging trends in STEM education at the elementary school level.One of the objectives of this project is to provide professional development opportunities tofellows, particularly, communication and teaching skills. This paper presents project evaluationevidences (quantitative and qualitative) of the impact of the project on the professionaldevelopment of its participants, particularly the graduate fellows. The data and the resultsindicate that the fellows significantly improved their communication

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Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder

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. Page 13.1239.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Impact on Engineering Graduate Students of Teaching in K-12 Engineering ProgramsMany K-12 engineering education initiatives implemented by U.S. universities and colleges havebeen well documented, providing us with descriptions of program logistics, partnerships,methods and curricula, as well as the impact on involved students, teachers and undergraduateand graduate students.1-9 Several initiatives have further evaluated their participating engineeringstudents and revealed measurable impacts in the areas of communication, teamwork,understanding of K-12 education, and time management.1-6As one of those established K-12engineering programs, we

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K-12 and Precollege Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 2 of 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); P.K. Raju, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); John Timothy Gill, Lee-Scott Academy

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developed in order to utilize information technology more effectively in classrooms. The greater the level of student involvement or engagement in academic work or academic experience in school, the greater his or her level of knowledge acquisition and general cognitive development13. Both researchers stress the need for new studies on innovative learning practices and instructional methodologies to identify their impact on students' learning and to determine whether they could help address issues like student engagement and retention. Serious games are games, or game-like interactive systems, developed with game technology and design principles for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. As Prensky14 pointed out, games are good for two

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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin M Brevik, North Dakota State College of Science; Kristi Jean, North Dakota State College of Science; Frank M. Bowman, University of North Dakota; Bradley Bowen, North Dakota State University

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to a community-led boardroom, comprised of school boardmembers, community stakeholders and local industry representatives. The program also tracksstudent progress throughout the year using peer- and self-assessments.This research project used quantitative data collection methods to measure the impact of the‘You’re Hired!’ program on changing students’ attitudes towards engineering. The methodologyincludes a statistical comparison of a control group to an experimental group to clearlydemonstrate the benefit of the program. The results of the statistical analysis show there is asignificant difference in the change in student attitudes toward engineering when participating inthe program.IntroductionIn the 21st Century workforce employers are

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Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Boynton P.E., Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech

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schools. Boynton is currently continuing teaching the high school courses to students virtually.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communica- tion in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, and design education. She was awarded a CAREER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is co-PI on several NSF grants to explore identity and interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering design

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Engineering Education Research in K-12

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Christopher George Wright, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Chris Rogers, Tufts University; Linda Jarvin, Tufts University; Amber Kendall, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Tufts University

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-904: THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERING-BASED SCIENCE IN-STRUCTION ON SCIENCE CONTENT UNDERSTANDINGMs. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts UniversityMerredith D Portsmore, Tufts University Merredith Portsmore is a Research Assistant Professor in Education at Tufts University as well as the Director of Outreach Programs for Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. Merredith has the unique honor of being a ”Quadruple Jumbo” having received all her four of her degrees from Tufts (B.A. English, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.A. Education, PhD in Engineering Education). Her research interests focus on how children engage in constructing solutions to engineering design problems. Her outreach work focuses on creating

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Evaluation: Exploring High School Engineering Education Initiatives

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen M Clapper Bergsman, Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering; Eric H. Chudler, University of Washington; Laura J Collins, Center for Research and Learning; Jill Lynn Weber, The Center for Research and Learning; Lise Johnson, The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering

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American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Impacts of a Neural Engineering Summer Research Experience on High School Students (Evaluation)Neural engineering is a cutting edge field focused on improving people’s lives by connectingbrains with technology. Sensorimotor neural engineering adds a specific focus on designingclosed-loop neural interactive systems to help restore sensory and/or motor functions that havebeen lost as a result of a neurological disorder or injury. The field brings together expertiseacross many engineering specialties along with computer science, robotics, mathematics,neuroscience, medicine, and bioethics. This interdisciplinary nature, as well as the goal ofhelping people with disabilities

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Research to Practice: STRAND 5 Other Topics in K-12 Engineering Education.

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shaobo Huang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Marius D Ellingsen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mark David Bedillion, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Paper ID #13035Investigating the Impact of an Outreach Activity on High School Students’Attitude towards STEM DisciplinesDr. Shaobo Huang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Shaobo Huang is an Assistant Professor and the Stensaas Endowed STEM Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Her research interests in- clude student retention and academic performance in engineering, student achievement evaluation and assessment, and K-12 STEM curriculum design.Dr. Cassandra M Degen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Cassandra Degen received her B.S

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Engaging Families and Exciting Girls with Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie S. Ivey, University of Memphis; Paul J. Palazolo, University of Memphis

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contact withfuture program participants. A final issue regarding assessment is the lack of comparison orcontrol group data available to more clearly determine program impact. Because participants aremiddle and high school students, we do not have access to a group of students to use for controlpurposes. This may be an issue that can be addressed in the future through relationships withlocal school districts.Lessons LearnedOver the past seven years, we have learned a lot about what works and what does not in terms ofmaking positive impact on program participants. The lessons learned from our experience withthe program and assessment results are as follows: • A half-day program is the most effective for maintaining student engagement. • It

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Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Programs for K-12 Teachers.

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County

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adopt the on-going PD curriculum; and make the program available foradaptation nationwide. These objectives were met and expanded upon to include addition sitesand additional training topics.BackgroundThe Community College of Baltimore CountyCCBC is the largest community college in the state of Maryland with an enrollment exceeding67,000 in 2014 nearly equally split between credit and non-credit students. The college missionis to provide an accessible, affordable, and high-quality education that prepares students fortransfer and career success, strengthens the regional workforce, and enriches our community.Providing training to PLTW teachers in Maryland and surrounding states fits well with thecollege’s mission by increasing their knowledge and

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Impacts on K-12 Student Identity, Career Choice, and Perceptions of Engineers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Matthew Arnold Boynton PE P.E., Virginia Tech

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. Though a limitation of the study, it did not impact our ability to developoutcomes or answer our research question. Table 2 shows the breakdown of the 24 high schoolparticipants. More females than males volunteered to participate at the high school level (2:1ratio, roughly half of the students had at least one parent with a 4-year degree (according to theparticipant), the majority (3:1) had not participated in an engineering activity. We thought thislast criterion might be important as contributing to exposure to and interest specifically inengineering.Twelve college engineering students were interviewed during the 2012 – 2013 academic year;they ranged from freshmen (first year) to seniors and included students at community collegesand four year

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Impacts on K-12 Student Identity, Career Choice, and Perceptions of Engineers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriana Anunciatto Depieri, University of Sao Paulo; Roseli de Deus Lopes P.E., Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo

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action plans to build engagement including the provision of abaseline data to measure and compare changes in high school students‟ attitudes andperceptions, over time. The overall research aims of this work achieved its goals to determinepublic attitudes of engineering and engineers; to explore, in depth, the reasons for suchattitudes to engineering and engineers; to explore perceptions on how engineering impactsand contributes to society. A better understanding of the impact of high school students‟attitudes toward engineers and engineering will surely have many other positive outcomes.Yet the impact of these attitudes still needs to be better identified and explored further, andcompared to other existing studies. Research studies exploring

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Engaging Families and Exciting Girls with Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan M. Caley Opsal, Illinois Valley Community College; Dorene M. Perez, Illinois Valley Community College; James A. Gibson, Illinois Valley Community College; Rose Marie Lynch, Illinois Valley Community College

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children’scareer choices, and especially their daughter’s choices, a number of recruiting programsdo invite parents to informational sessions with their daughters, 13 and some programsinvite parents to watch as their daughters demonstrate newly acquired skills. 14 However,programs which include parents as participants in hands-on activities with theirdaughters, such as this diode-making activity, are either very rare or not well publicized.Lincoln Junior High SchoolThe school selected for this project, Lincoln Junior High School in LaSalle, Ill., is amiddle school for sixth through eighth grade students. Located in north central Illinois,in a rural community with a population of just under 10,000 people, the school had anenrollment of 253 students in

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Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juyeon Y. Kluin, Purdue University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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also parents‟ influence on students‟decisions in choosing their major and future career.39, 40, 41 Teachers also benefit from parentalinvolvement; parents can help increase school-to-home communications, which ultimately helpteachers gain more insights into their students‟ learning needs.42 Beyond the education, strongparental support helps children self-regulate behavioral and social skills.43 The motivation behindthe parental involvement is derived from parental role construction and parental sense of efficacyfor helping their children.1, 44, 45 Extensive studies have shown, however, that the impact ofparental influence varies according to other factors, such as demographic characteristics andtypes of involvement.46, 47, 48 In the

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Gender & Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Christensen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Willard Nott, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Douglas Edwards, Westlake High School; Leann Yoder, Jets, Inc.; Christina Ho, Engineers Without Borders; Shannon Flanagan, Engineers Without Borders; Stephanie Hurd, JETS, Inc.; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cathy Leslie, Engineers Without Borders; Samuel Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology

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-world reinforcementof sustainable engineering practices and promotes the education of ethically responsible andinternationally aware students. We postulate that this move away from competition-basedmotivations and towards community service will be particularly appealing to non-traditionalengineering students such as minorities and women.This paper will examine the case study of EWB-Westlake High School, the first ever high schoolEWB chapter, which was chartered in the Fall of 2006, and conducted a work trip to Tanzania inJuly, 2007. The program assessment surveys address which specific activities were effective andwhich need future refinement, and explore the impact that an engineering service learningprogram can have on the future goals of the

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Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David G. Rethwisch, University of Iowa; Melissa Chapman Haynes, Professional Data Analysts; Soko S. Starobin, Iowa State University; Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Tom Schenk Jr., Northwestern University

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AC 2012-3308: A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF PROJECT LEAD THEWAY ON ACHIEVEMENT OUTCOMES IN IOWADr. David G. Rethwisch, University of IowaDr. Melissa Chapman Haynes, Professional Data AnalystsDr. Soko S. Starobin, Iowa State University Soko Starobin is Assistant Professor of Higher Education Program and Associate Director of the Office of Community College Research and Policy at Iowa State University. Her research focuses on gender issues in STEM fields among community college students, specifically traditionally under-represented student populations.Prof. Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University Frankie Santos Laanan is an associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa

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The Role of Robotics in K-12 Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cher C. Hendricks, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tamra Williams Ogletree, University of West Georgia

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development net- work (ePDN), a new initiative dedicated to preparing teachers to engage their students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) through the use of NASA-developed learning materials and resources. She also serves a the lead evaluator on several NSF-funded Noyce Scholarship programs. She has direct experience leading or contributing to evaluations of leadership, and STEM-related innovations.Dr. Tamra Williams Ogletree, University of West Georgia Page 25.1312.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Impact of Participation in VEX Robotics

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Promoting Scientific and Technological Literacy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne Soled, University of Cincinnati; Patricia McNerney, University of Cincinnati; Laura Koehl, University of Cincinnati; Kelly Obarski, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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10graduate students), 32 teachers, 7 university faculty members, and the Fellow facultyadvisors, a technology web designer, a Grant Coordinator, an Evaluation Fellow andan Oversight Committee. The grant is currently in its fourth year, with 8 graduateFellows, and similar staffing, and has approved funding for continuation of anadditional five years. This paper discusses the impact of Project STEP on theFellows, teachers, and students in its first three-and-a-half years.The teachers and Fellows have worked in teams to design, develop, and implementhands-on activities and technology-driven inquiry-based projects, which relate to thestudents' community issues, as vehicles to authentically teach STEM skills. Activitieshave been incorporated into lessons

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Successful K-12 Programs for Girls & Minorities

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board; Isla Young, Maui Economic Development Board, Inc.

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AC 2008-2413: SERVICE LEARNING: COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL VALUESTHAT ENGAGE UNDER REPRESENTED GROUPS INTO THE STEM PIPELINELeslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development BoardIsla Young, Maui Economic Development Board, Inc. ISLA YOUNG: Ms. Young joined the MEDB Women in Technology Project in December 2003. She serves as a Program Manager working with students, educators, industry leaders, and the community. She serves as the Hawaii statewide coordinator for Project EAST profiled in this paper. She holds a baccalaureate degree in Business and Information Systems form the University of Phoenix. Email: isla@medb.org

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Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ari Epstein, MIT; Beverly Mire, Cambridge Youth Programs; Trent Ramsey, Cambridge Youth Programs; Karen Gareis, Goodman Research Group; Emily Davidson, MIT; Elizabeth Jones, MIT; Michelle Slosberg, MIT; Rafael Bras, MIT

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of experts that supervises the design and construction of a multibillion-dollar project to protect the City of Venice from floods. Page 15.1199.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Terrascope Youth Radio: Engaging urban teens in a unique university-community partnershipAbstractTerrascope Youth Radio (TYR) is an NSF-funded program in which undergraduate engineeringand science students at MIT mentor local urban teens as the teens produce radio/audioprogramming on environmental topics. The interaction has been remarkably fruitful, both for theteens and for the undergraduates. The

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Crystal Jean DeJaegher, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia

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, students first focus on specifications and constraints, then a developing knowledge phase. Each step within design phases consists of a variety of types, ranging from questions for students to answer in multiple-choice or free-response short-answers to creating drawings, or sharing designs with other classmates through the design wall. For example, the fourth activity in the Community Garden project guides students through a series of steps that help students understand ratios through practice and feedback on calculating prices of vegetables from various vendors (Figure 2). This paper presents first steps to understand how log data from the WISEngineering system can provide insight into what kinds of design processes students engage in

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Engineering Professional Development for K12 Teachers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College

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AC 2008-1235: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTES ONALTERNATIVE ENERGYMichael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community CollegeLori Heymans, Northern Essex Community CollegePaul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College Page 13.1003.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Professional Development Institutes on Alternative EnergyAbstractThis paper describes three Professional Development Institutes for middle and highschool teachers exploring the science, technology, engineering, and math behind thegeneration of electricity by wind, water, and solar power.Each institute was organized and delivered as a Web-companion course. All lecturenotes, assignments, and required

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Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.; Neil Hutzler, Michigan Technological University; Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science; Mia Jackson, Foundation for Family Science & Engineering; Joan F. Chadde, Michigan Technological University

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program’s impact and efficacy with the engineering field.Goals of the Family Engineering ProgramThe goals of Family Engineering are to: (1) engage families in engineering with fun, hands-onactivities, (2) increase public understanding and appreciation of the role engineering plays ineveryday life, (3) introduce children at an early age to the many career opportunities inengineering, (4) increase parents’ interest in and ability to encourage their children to pursue anengineering career, and (5) provide age-appropriate resources to support volunteers inconducting informal engineering education programs with elementary-aged children and theirparents in informal community settings.In the development phase of the Family Engineering Program, the project

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K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah

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the energy future. The final day included tours and presentations of highschool student ideas. We learned a couple of things from these two camps. One was that it takes a lot of effort andsubstantial coordination to put these camps together. Another was that the hands-on activitieswere the most appealing, and as much time as possible should be spent doing/building. Thetours and speakers were also often seen as highly appealing, so we continue to use them inbalance with the hands on activities. The college student ambassadors hired on as campcounselors had a very positive impact on the high school students, provided they havefaculty/director supervision in the development of the activities. We also found that many ofthe high school students