as high as male parents. Even though we did notgauge their knowledge objectively, what they think they know about engineering has apotential influence on their behavior of doing engineering activities with children. This resultalong with the evidence that mothers’ influence through discussion with girls towards sciencehas higher impact than fathers 8 suggests that parents can play an importance role inpromoting diversity in engineering. We also found a difference in familiarity and disinterestbetween parents with different education background. College educated parents were morefamiliar with engineering and more interested in having engineering in K-12 schools thanparents with only a high school education.Although the statistics gave
resources t o address all types ofenvironmental issues through unique education, technologyd e v e l o p m e n t / t e c h n o l o g y t r a n s f e r a n d public o u t r e a c h p r o g r a m s . W E R C h a s d e v e l o p e d a n d i m p l e m e n t e d a unique method of providing designe d u c a t i o n b y providing a r e a l - l i f e s o l u t i o n o f a site p r o b l e m . The WERC hasi n n o v a t e d a w a y in w h i c h a r e a l p r o b l e m is p r o v i d e d to university t e a m s t h a tw o r k o n this a n d d e v e l o p a total solution f o r this p r o b l e m . The WERCconsortium provides a p r o b l e m statement o f a
AC 2012-4393: SUBWAY MAP VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR INTEGRAT-ING THE NAE GRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERING INTO THEPHILADELPHIA AND KENYAN HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY CURRIC-ULAMr. Jared P. Coyle, Drexel University Jared Coyle is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Drexel University. He earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Drexel University in 2008. Coyle is a former NSF IGERT Fellow and current NSF GK-12 Fellow who has spent two years bringing modern scientific perspectives to Philadelphia High School for Girls in the School District of Philadelphia. Coyle’s current research includes the study of wearable power generation and display technologies.Dr. Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University
Cheyenne, Wyoming a grant of $230K to integrate mathematics,science, and language arts into the district’s seventh grade curriculum. The overall goalof the grant was to enhance the technical and cultural literacy of the students. To achievethis goal an objective was set that all seventh grade students would improve theirauthentic critical thinking skills by developing inquiry skills through the use of DiscoveryBoxes that would integrate mathematics, science, and language arts skills. A DiscoveryTeam was formed to implement the grant. The team consisted of professional educators.Approximately 20 team members were teachers from constituent middle schools withinLCSD#1. The remaining six team members were subject matter experts includingeducators from
,and systems.3,4 The “beads” or “packaging” used to deliver engineering content generallyfocused on technologies of interest to students, such as cell phones, digital video, water-bottlerockets, and robotics.This conceptual model for analyzing engineering curricula provides insights into the variety ofapproaches and curriculum pathways through which engineering concepts and skills are and canbe delivered in K-12 classrooms, as well as the varied learning objectives of such curricula. Italso provides a glimpse into the types of teacher expertise needed and the challenges encounteredin effectively delivering engineering curricula.Challenges in Integrating Engineering into the ClassroomResearch on the integration of innovative curricula has
. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Walther is an assistant professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is a director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology and social work. His research interests range from the role of empathy in engineering students’ professional formation, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methodologies in the emerging field of engineering education research. His teaching focuses on innovative approaches to introducing systems thinking and
of the ideas that emerged from the field in thelatter half of the 20th century. “Medical technologies” and “agriculture” (in Standards 14 and 15respectively) were added to the list of content organizers the field had previously championed.Here again, the real strength of STL was/is its potential as a communication tool beyond theprofession. It offered a credible overview of the ideals that the profession had been striving toachieve for decades. Perhaps most importantly, it offered a goal the engineering educationcommunity could support. With the National Academy of Engineering’s enthusiasticendorsement of the STL as “an essential core of technological knowledge and skills we mightwish all K-12 students to acquire,” engineering and technology
Leifer stated that increasing emphasis over the lastseveral decades has been placed on design as the focus for engineering curricula [19][20]. Design isa distinguishing activity of engineering and is a vital part of an engineer's preparation. At the K-12 level, Douglas, Iversen, and Kalyandurg reported that the engineering community hasidentified the need for teaching engineering at this level, and it has been supported by theAmerican Society of Engineering Education [21].The nature of engineering design can be explained through the structure phase. Based on thestructure, engineering design is divided into two categories: well-defined and ill-defined problemdesign. Ill-defined problems are more difficult to solve since they require more
andadvisors. HSE is modeled on a highly successful and nationally recognized undergraduateinquiry-based engineering program which started as a NSF funded pilot at MichiganTechnological University. The undergraduate program (Enterprise) is now a self-sustainingprogram that attracts engineering and other STEM-discipline students to higher education,retains them, and makes them more marketable to employers when they graduate. The highschool program described in this paper is currently funded by two NSF awards, IEECI andITEST, with the expectation that it, too, will become self sustaining through private andcorporate funds. There are currently twelve high school sites (ten in Michigan, one in Georgia,and one in Puerto Rico) and three universities
AC 2009-117: SIGNIFICANT CASES OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS'DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING PERCEPTIONSIrene Mena, Purdue University Irene Mena is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her M.S. and B.S. are both in Industrial Engineering. Her research interests include K-12 engineering education, first-year engineering, and graduate student professional development.Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University Dr. Brenda Capobianco is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Engineering Education, as well as Affiliated Faculty in Women's Studies at Purdue University.Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University Dr. Heidi Diefes-Dux is an
, or quantumphysics, an understanding of its major principles and concepts is accessible to students at thehigh school level. It was hoped that through their participation students would gain a depth ofunderstanding for this highly interdisciplinary subject well beyond their exposure in high-schoolphysics courses. By stressing economic, environmental, ethical and societal issues in which fluidmechanics plays an important role, students would begin to see how the different aspects of theireducational curriculum—such as humanities and social sciences, as well as mathematics andother “hard” sciences—exist not as standalone compartments, but as parts of a larger whole. Inthe end, we hoped that the course would inspire students to pursue a career
Paper ID #23052Work in Progress: Exploring the STEM Education and Learning Impactsof Socially-relevant Making through the Challenge Problem of Making Pros-thetics for KidsMr. Jeffrey Craig Powell, UNC Charlotte Jeff Powell is a graduate student at UNC-Charlotte studying Biological Sciences. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Biomedical Engineering program. As a student at UNC-CH, Jeff started The Helping Hand Project, a 501c3 non-profit and student volunteer group which supports children with upper limb differences. This includes using 3D-printers to create prosthetic devices for children. The non-profit includes chapters
the more explicit inclusion ofengineering that has characterized more recent efforts. However, creating theseexperiences in the classroom is far from trivial. Much of the work looking at the specificstructure of such inquiry-based activities at the K-12 level has consisted of eitherarticulating intended goals or rubrics for assessing the degree of inquiry learning. Thispaper is intended to illuminate the means for achieving those goals and levels bygenerating a taxonomy of different pedagogical structures used for inquiry activities. Weaim to articulate structures that are more general than individual lessons but more specificthan broad goals. By systematically reviewing over 300 activities across a variety ofcurriculum sources, content areas
Paper ID #13327Informal Pathways to Engineering: Middle-School-Aged Homeschool Stu-dents’ Experiences with Engineering (Fundamental)Tamecia R Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tamecia Jones is currently a doctoral student in the Engineering Education department at Purdue Uni- versity with a research focus on K-12 engineering education, assessment, and informal and formal learn- ing environments. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and Stanford University. Originally trained as a biomedical engineer, she spent years in the middle school classroom, teaching math and science, and consulting with nonprofits, museums
on their product. When necessary, the clients facilitate an open and positiveenvironment and ensure all team members participate in the discussion.Continuing EducationLastly, the continuing education phase involves increasing the naval engineering knowledgethroughout the K-12 community. This phase requires collaboration and synergy between K-12schools, industry, academia and the Navy to achieve its continued success. Drexel University,through its summer engineering program for high school teachers, works with the Navy toarrange tours of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Land Based Engineering Complex.Here, teachers experience firsthand the unique, engineering facilities that encompass a broadrange of general engineering disciplines
Paper ID #9254STEM High School: Does multiple years of high school engineering impactstudent choices and teacher instruction?Dr. Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Malinda Zarske is faculty in the General Engineering Plus department at the University of Colorado Boulder. A former high school and middle school science and math teacher, she has advanced degrees in teaching secondary science from the Johns Hopkins University and in civil engineering from CU- Boulder. Dr. Zarske has been involved in K-12 engineering education for over 14 years, and currently teaches product design courses through General
Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. His research experience includes materials, thin films and metrology. He directs outreach activities in the Department of Microelectronic Engineering at RIT.Thomas Schulte, Rochester Institute of Technology Tom Schulte is a science teacher at the West Irondequoit High School, Rochester, NY. He is the K-12 Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Microelectronic Engineering at Rochester Institute Technology. He brings a unique combination of engineering education, industrial experience and high school teaching.Nathaniel Kane, Rochester Institute of Technology Nate is an undergraduate student of BS program in Microelectronic Engineering. Nate has
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is Elementary (EiE) aim to help children see boxes and other everyday items astechnologies that have purpose in their design and creation.5, 7, 8 The EiE curriculum encouragesthe following insights about technology: ≠ Anything that people design to solve a problem is technology. ≠ Technology doesn’t always use electricity. ≠ People design technology. ≠ Anyone can design technology. ≠ Technology can be made of lots of different materials. ≠ Some kinds of materials (like plastic) are examples of technology. ≠ An engineer’s job is to design technology.9EiE developers hope that children come to these insights through engagement in a one-hourpreparatory lesson about technology and reinforcement in ten-hour units of
Centers for Exploration and New Discovery) program. QCCTechASCEND was a project funded under that program to encourage high school students(mostly seniors with some juniors) to consider careers in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM). Located at a large urban community college, the QCC TechASCENDproject put particular emphasis on technology, but attracted participants considering or willing toconsider other STEM fields.Over the course of three school years, from October 2002 through June 2005, nearly 200 highschool students from 22 high schools participated. Each of the seven groups of participants camefor approximately 30 sessions, each two hours long, devoted to hands-on exploration related tooptics in general, lasers, fiber
relatively enduring organization of beliefs, feelings, and behavioral tendencytowards socially significant objects, groups, events or symbols43. In other words,an attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event, andthis psychological tendency is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree offavor or disfavor13 usually through a likert scale as a direct attitude measurement24.Besides being measurable and changeable as well as influencing the person's emotion andbehavior, attitudes can be formed from a person's past and present1. Therefore, based on afamiliar cliché “positive attitudes produce positive results”, we believe that high schoolstudents‟ positive engineering attitudes may produce
AC 2011-2446: EFFECTS OF ENGAGING CLASSROOM STRATEGIESAND TEACHER SUPPORT ON STUDENT OUTCOMES OVER SCHOOLTRANSITIONSJoan Barth, University of Alabama Joan Barth is a research social scientist at the University of Alabama. Research interests include psycho- logical and educational issues in school settings. Current projects include a study of personal, social and life goal factors that affect interest in STEM careers from elementary through college years.Debra M. McCallum, University of AlabamaBeth Todd, University of Alabama Dr. Beth Todd is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama.Rosanna E. Guadagno, University of AlabamaBeverly Roskos, University of AlabamaDr. Carmen Burkhalter, The
wellunderstood. Numerous curricular efforts involve simple machines and related physical systems,but these do not yet build toward a systematic and longer-term vision for promoting thedevelopment of reasoning about mechanisms. The research we describe here was developed inpartnership with a team of engineers and science educators who aim to support the earlydevelopment of mechanistic reasoning through a curriculum that challenges children to designkinetic toys called MechAnimations. Our research aims to characterize the intellectual resourcesavailable to children as they engage in design challenges and to describe the process by whichthese design activities may promote development of mechanistic reasoning. This paper providesan in-depth look at
) summer camp was implemented in late 2005 through funding fromthe National Science Foundation at West Virginia University. The goal of this program is to invitehigh school-aged students to campus and teach them a small portion of the career expectations andfuture applications of engineering. This summer camp focuses on hands-on projects which resonatewith the Appalachian culture such as such as coal mine safety or generating green energy. Summercamp participants learn drawing software packages such as AutoCAD or ProENGINEER and theypolish their skills on Microsoft Office programs such as Excel and Word. As of the summer of 2011the camp has been run successfully for several years with the help of West Virginia University andundergraduate and
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AC 2011-696: MEASURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEAM-BASEDSTEM PROJECT LEARNING AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ANDTEACHERSFelicia Chong, Michigan Technological UniversityDouglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University Mr. Oppliger is a professional engineer and a lecturer in the Engineering Fundamentals department at Michigan Technological University. He is the director of the High School Enterprise program which has a mission to increase the numbers of students pursuing post-secondary degrees and careers in STEM fields. At its core, this program supports K-12 teachers who are leading teams of students in long-term STEM projects. This work is the latest in Oppliger’s history of working in K-12 STEM areas. For the past 10
Paper ID #6287Internships and Undergraduate Research: Impact, Support, and Institution-alization of an NSF S-STEM Program through Partnerships with Industryand Funding from Federal and Local Workforce AgenciesDr. Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida Dr. Lisa Massi is the Director of Operations Analysis for Accreditation, Assessment, & Data Adminis- tration in the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She is Co-PI of a NSF-funded S-STEM program and program evaluator for an NSF-funded REU program. Her research interests include cognitive and non-cognitive factors that
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Paper ID #12295Opening the Classroom to the Civil Engineering Profession through Web-based Class Projects: Assessment of Student LearningWilliam Greenwood, University of Michigan William Greenwood is a doctoral student in Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests in geotechnical earthquake engineering include post-disaster site reconnaissance, geophysical methods for site investigation, and dy- namic properties of waste materials. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Vermont in 2013.Prof. Dimitrios Zekkos
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