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University, researching educational philosophies and practices prevalent in high school and introductory university physics and math courses, and developing recommendations to increase gender diversity in engineering education and the engineering profession. Kathy is the elected Vice President for Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia, and has served on several educational, policy and gover- nance boards. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 From Physics To Where? Assessing the effect of a discovery- based teaching paradigm on reducing gender barriers to engineering (RTP, Diversity)ABSTRACT
suggest that traditional teaching methods may benefit from tools that address thelearning needs of and engage the active and global learners.The non-traditional game based PBL was delivered in the five classrooms over a span of 3-4weeks where 7 sessions were devoted strictly to the project. Students were tasked with designinga board game that aimed to teach game players about concepts associated with simple machines.The observing researcher, students, and teachers, agreed that the project was successful inengaging the learners in content application and other softer skills. It was also concluded that theproject nicely supported active and global learners, who had shown a relative disinterest inscience, physics and engineering in the pre-PBL
Paper ID #31376Using Computer-Generated Concept Maps in the Engineering Design Pro-cessto Improve Physics LearningMr. Michael S Rugh, Texas A&M University Michael S Rugh is a third year PhD student focusing on mathematics education within the Curriculum and Instruction PhD track in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture within the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. His current focus is on informal STEM education. Within this, he has taught for the past two years at ASSC, the Aggie STEM Summer Camp. He has over 16 presentations and publications and is constantly working on
Paper ID #27426Connecting to the Physical Space through Funds of Knowledge: LessonsLearned from a STEM Summer Enrichment Program (Fundamental, Diver-sity)Dr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an assistant professor of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. His current research investigates how the integration of the historically and culturally accumulated wealth of knowledge, skills, and practices - also known as funds of knowledge - and engineering design can serve as a pathway to and through engineering. Dr. Mejia is particularly interested in how Latinx
Paper ID #22972Teaching Fundamentals in Lasers and Light Technology to Advanced AppliedOptics in Biology and Biomedical Research: Analyzing the Team-teaching In-fluence on High School Students’ Perception of and Confidence in STEMMs. Vahideh Abdolazimi, Drexel University I am a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Drexel University. I finished my undergraduate and graduate studies in physics. My studies in bachelor was mainly focused on soft condensed matter and complex systems. I worked on a neural network to simulate and model the patterns of spikes in a two and three coupled neural network
Paper ID #22381Preschool Teachers Learn to Teach the Engineering Design Process (Research-to-Practice)Nicole J. Glen, Bridgewater State University Former elementary teacher. Now an elementary science and engineering education methods professor and researcher. Research involves pre-service and in-service elementary teachers and their science and engineering attitudes, understandings, and skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Preschool Teachers Learn to Teach the Engineering Design Process (research-to-practice)AbstractNationally, engineering has been in
Paper ID #32881Studying In-service Teacher Professional Development on PurposefulIntegration of Engineering into K-12 STEM Teaching (Research to Practice)Dr. Amanda M. Gunning, Mercy College Dr. Amanda Gunning is an Associate Professor of Science Education at Mercy College where she teaches both content and methods courses for K-12 science and STEM teaching. She holds a Bachelor of Sci- ence degree in Physics , a Master of Arts in Secondary Science Education from City College and her doctoral work at Teachers College, Columbia University focused on Elementary Science Education. Gun- ning enjoys working with teachers and
discussions with the participating teachers and visits to their research labs.4. On-site discussions with the program director (lead faculty researcher) and graduate research assistant (lead graduate researcher).5. Data analysis and report preparation.The nine participants reported teaching Chemistry (3), Living Environment (2), Physics (2),Computer Science (3), Math (3), and Engineering. Three of the participants had previouslyparticipated in summer research internship programs for teachers (e.g., RET). The other six saidthey had previously engaged in scientific or educational research of some kind. They reported anaverage of 10 years teaching experience. The first rated item, on a five-point scale, for the programpre- and post-surveys asked
Purzer is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Educa- tion (JPEER). She received a B.S.E with distinction in Engineering in 2009 and a B.S. degree in Physics Education in 1999. Her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are in Science Education from Arizona State University earned in 2002 and 2008, respectively.Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University Kristina M. Tank is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She currently teaches
- versity. Dr. Baldwin’s primary focus is working across the Colleges of Engineering and Education on engineering education related initiatives. She teaches undergraduate courses in the First Year Engineering Program and in the Department of STEM Education. Dr. Baldwin’s research interests include self- efficacy, motivation and persistence of underrepresented populations in STEM and engineering design in K-12.Dr. LaTricia Walker Townsend, North Carolina State University Dr. LaTricia Townsend is the Interim Director of Evaluation Programs for the Research and Evaluation Team at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. She has over 23 years of experience in the field of education
- versity. Dr. Baldwin’s primary focus is working across the Colleges of Engineering and Education on engineering education related initiatives. She teaches undergraduate courses in the First Year Engineering Program and in the Department of STEM Education. Dr. Baldwin’s research interests include self- efficacy, motivation and persistence of underrepresented populations in STEM and engineering design in K-12.Ms. Angelitha Daniel, North Carolina State UniversityMr. Braska Williams Jr., Newport News Public SchoolsDr. LaTricia Walker Townsend, North Carolina State University Dr. LaTricia Townsend is a Senior Research Scholar on the Research and Evaluation Team at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North
Paper ID #25283Analyzing Successful Teaching Practices in Middle School Science and MathClassrooms when using Robotics (Fundamental)Mrs. Veena Jayasree Krishnan, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Veena Jayasree Krishnan received a Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree in Mechatronics from Vel- lore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India in 2012. She has two years of research experience at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded DR K-12 re- search project to
Paper ID #25279Teaching Science with Technology: Scientific and Engineering Practices ofMiddle School Science Teachers Engaged in a Robot-Integrated ProfessionalDevelopment Program (Fundamental)Dr. Hye Sun You, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Hye Sun You received a Ph.D. from a STEM education program at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her master’s degree in science education and bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Yonsei University in South Korea. Prior to entering academia, she spent several years teaching middle school science. Her research interests center upon interdisciplinary learning and teaching, and
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Generation Science Standards", Nextgenscience.org, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.nextgenscience.org/. [Accessed: 05- Feb- 2018].[7] Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2018.[8] K. Hadley, "Teaching Teamwork Skills through Alignment of Features within a Commercial Board Game", International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 1376-1394, 2014.[9] R. Garris, R. Ahlers and J. E. Driskell, "Games, Motivation, and Learning: A Research and Practice Model," Simulation & Gaming, vol. 33, (4), pp. 441-467, 2002.[10] T. W. Malone, "Toward a theory of intrinsically motivating
Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) program - an initiative aimed at introducing new design tools and collaborative practices of making to high school students across the United States - sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Mr. Patel has also served as Project Manager for DARPA’s MENTOR2 program which involved developing project kits and curricula to train the U.S. armed forces to understand, troubleshoot, repair and adapt electromechanical systems. Mr. Patel also teaches courses in Systems Engineering, Aerodynamics and Digital Design & Manufacturing at School of AE at Georgia Tech. Currently, Mr. Patel is working as the Co-Investigator for Innovative Mars Exploration Education and Technology
education and technology development. In education, she is the Engineering director of research alliances for Northeastern University’s Roux Institute. The Roux Insti- tute is creating an innovation hub in Portland, ME, based on applied research and graduate education. Dr. Fougere works across NU to create teams of faculty who partner with corporate and nonprofit or- ganizations to fulfill strategic needs. Previously, she was the inaugural Associate Dean of Outreach and Diversity in the College of Engineering at Boston University. Over the 6+ years, she launched and spear- headed a nationally-impactful initiative called the Technology Innovation Scholars Program, where a cadre of highly-trained engineering undergraduates
she worked as a graduate research assistant with the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. She graduated from North Carolina State University as a Park Scholar with a BA in Physics, and spent several years teaching physics to high-school freshman. Amber’s primary research interests include K-12 teacher professional development for integrated STEM curricula and elementary student engineering design thinking and prac- tices. When she is not at work, Amber enjoys spending time with her family designing games, building LEGO, and fabricating costumes.Dr. Matthew T. Stimpson, North Carolina State University Matthew Stimpson is the Director of Assessment in the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs at NC
Tandon’s 2002, 2008, 2011, and 2014 Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2002 Jacobs Innovation Grant, 2003 Distinguished Teacher Award, and 2012 Inaugural Distin- guished Award for Excellence in the category Inspiration through Leadership. Moreover, he is a recipient of 2014-2015 University Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. His scholarly activities have included 3 edited books, 9 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 61 journal articles, and 140 conference pa- pers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 26 M.S., and 5 Ph.D. thesis students; 47 undergraduate research students and 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 480 K-12 teachers and 115 high school student researchers; and 18 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and
teachers Yearly evaluationdata were reviewed by CSNE education staff and informed iterations to the design andimplementation of the program. The RET program allows secondary science teachers toexperience what it is like to be a researcher, a curriculum designer, and a student again. Itimmerses teachers in learning and teaching about an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge field thatbrings together neuroscience, engineering, computer science, medicine, and ethics. As oneparticipant stated, it “helped me feel relevant again in the classroom.” Moreover, the programsupports teachers in developing curriculum design expertise and gaining confidence in bringingengineering design into their science classrooms. Students are receptive to the innovative
Paper ID #26470Impact of Authentic, Mentored Research Experiences for Teachers on Peda-gogy (Fundamental)Dr. Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University Elena Veety received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, in 2011. Her research focused on liquid crystal polarization gratings for tunable optical filters and telecommunications applications. Since 2011, she has been a Teaching Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Currently, she is the Education Director for the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research
Paper ID #23942Promoting the STEM Pipeline and Enhancing STEM Career Awareness ThroughParticipation in Authentic Research Activities (RTP, Diversity)Dr. Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University Bugrahan Yalvac is an associate professor of science and engineering education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received his Ph.D. in science education at the Pennsylvania State University in 2005. Prior to his current position, he worked as a learning scientist for the VaNTH Engineering Research Center at Northwestern University for three years. Yalvac’s
support teachers implementing these practices,and how students learn science through engineering practices. Compounding this effort is thegrowing challenge of identifying and characterizing effective engineering design-based scienceteaching while still capturing its complexity. In other words, what does engineering design-basedscience teaching look like and how can we capture teachers’ strategies? Drawing from the tenetsof ambitious teaching, this study utilizes what have been called “high leverage” or “core”practices [1] [2]. Core practices are moves, skills, and strategies that teachers do in highfrequency and have been shown in research to be linked to improvement in student achievement[3], [4], [5]. Approximations of practice refer to
Paper ID #23190Fundamental: Examining the Variations in the TPACK Framework for Teach-ing Robotics-aided STEM Lessons of Varying DifficultyMr. Abhidipta Mallik, New York University Abhidipta Mallik received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India, and M.Tech. degree in Mechatronics from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal, India. He has one year and ten months of research experience at the CSIR-CMERI, India. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of
degree from Clemson University. His research interests focus on teacher education and students learning issues within Engineering Education/Pedagogy and Computa- tional Thinking/Pedagogy field of studies. He received national and international recognitions including an Early Career Researcher award from European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) and a Jhumki Basu Scholar award from National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). In addition, he is one of two scholarship recipients awarded by NARST to attend the ESERA summer re- ˇ e Budˇejovice, Czech Republic in 2016. He can be reached at iyeter@purdue.edu. search program in Cesk´Dr. Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell
Paper ID #25339Does How Pre-College Engineering and Technology Role Models See Them-selves Relate to Girls’ Engagement in the Fields? [Research To Practice]Dr. Mary B. Isaac, HEDGE Co. Mary Isaac retired from General Electric in 2007 as a Customer Service Executive, after 30 years in various technical and commercial roles in GE’s energy business, serving electric utility customers such as Excel, Constellation Energy, and Entergy. She has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Union College in N.Y., an M.A.T. in technology education from North Carolina A&T State University in 2011, and Ph.D. in occupational and technical
Paper ID #23250Equity in Collaboration: My Ideas Matter, Too! K-12 Students’ Negotiationof Social Status in Collaborative Engineering Teams (Fundamental Research)Mrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette Kayla is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interest includes the influence of informal engineering learning experiences on diverse students’ attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of engineering, and the relationship between students’ interests and the practices and cultures of engineering. Her current work at the FACE lab is on teaching strategies for K
Paper ID #23657”But, What Do You Want Me to Teach?”: Best Practices for Teaching in Ed-ucational Makerspaces (RTP)Miss Avneet Hira, Purdue University, West Lafayette Avneet is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interests include K-12 education and first year engineering in the light of the engineering design process, and inclusion of digital fabrication labs into classrooms. Her current work at the FACE lab is on the use of classroom Makerspaces for an interest-based framework of engineering design. She is also interested in cross-cultural work in engineering
Paper ID #29381Characterizing Engineering Outreach Ambassadors’ Teaching Moves duringEngineering Design Activities (Fundamental)Ms. Elizabeth Ann Moison, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and OutreachMs. Karen Miel, Tufts University Karen Miel is a PhD student in STEM Education at Tufts University. Karen served as the Director of Research and Innovation at the science center CuriOdyssey and the Education Director of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo after teaching elementary and middle school. Her research focuses on elementary students’ reasoning and decision-making in collaborative engineering design.Dr