Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Heather L. Walker; Daesoo Kim; Edgar C. Clausen

Life cycle assessment (LCA) frameworks, life cycle thinking, 4 methodology, ISO standards Life cycle inventory data sources and quantitative methods 3 Modeling in openLCA with case studies—chicken pasta production, PC 9 vs. PET bottles, polymer production Comparative assessments of projects—diesel car vs. electric car 4 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Modeling with parameters and sensitivity analysis

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Efforts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Teresa J. Sakraida, Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing; Francis Xavier McAfee, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

and digital arts outside the class environment, tobuild their app. As part of the curriculum, we scheduled four Face-to-Face (F2F) evening (non-class room) sessions where students from all the disciplines came together to discuss and presenttheir app development progress. More details may be found in other papers from our group(Donate et al. 2015 & Shankar et al. 2017a and 2017b).Research Design:Our approach is derived from two theoretical models with strong emphasis on studentinvolvement in the learning process: active student engagement (ASE) and project-basedlearning (PBL). Both approaches assume active student participation in learning practices whereexchange of ideas, extensive interdisciplinary collaboration, and synergies are

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Work-in-Progress 5: Academic Support, Retention, and Success Strategies

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hiba Assi, University of Detroit Mercy; E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy; Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Dawn Archey, University of Detroit Mercy; Mark Andrew Steffka, University of Detroit Mercy; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FPD)

focused on thefreshman year of the mechanical and electrical engineering programs, starting with a smallcohort of students. The project goals include disrupting legacy barriers such as restrictiveprerequisites, inflexible semester-based course schedules, and traditional assessment methodsthat have disproportionately affected marginalized students. This pilot program does not replacethe traditional pathway most engineering students follow. Instead, students in the redesignedfreshman curriculum will transition into the traditional pathway after their first year in theprogram. Our hope is to expand the redesign into years 2-4 in future years based on the lessonslearned through the pilot.B: Pedagogical Design InnovationsThe centerpiece of our pilot

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 13: Student Learning and Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg MASEE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

energy restriction methods. His published research works enjoy an h-index of 25. Leon’ first love is however for teaching. He co-developed and taught a unique freshman course on ”Innovation”, where students work in so-called ”whole-brain” thinking teams when addressing technological problems. These helped show that innovation for a sustainable world can be maximised by the convergence of natural sciences, engineering sciences, and the arts. At the UIUC, Leon is currently investigating pedagogies of engagement for use in the engineering curriculum. He focuses on self-directed learning and play-in-learning. Leon is collaborating with colleagues from various disciplines in this venture. He also founded the TechnoLab

Conference Session

Broadening Participation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston Cathy Lachapelle currently leads the assessment efforts for the EiE curriculum, designing assessment in- struments, pilot and field testing them, and conducting research on how children use the EiE materials. She has worked on a number of research and evaluation projects related to K-16 STEM education, includ- ing the Women’s Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) study of factors influencing the persistence of undergraduate women in engineering schools. She is particularly interested in how students learn sci- ence, engineering, and mathematics through collaborative interaction and through scaffolded experiences engaging in disciplinary practices. Lachapelle received her B.S. in

Conference Session

Faculty Development I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Craig Lorie, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

level, instructors are designing new teachingstrategies. At the second level, the researchers are designing a model for teaching developmentfor faculty. In addition, how does conceptualizing teaching as a design process inform a teachingdevelopment model for instructors?  Literature Review  We build in this project on other frameworks for research in education that examine howeducational products (e.g., curriculum) or processes are designed for the classroom. In many ofthese cases, there are models, resources or tools being designed to support teaching and learning.For example, in research about the design of curriculum, Clements describes multiple stages inthe life of the materials from the ideal curriculum to the planned curriculum to the

Conference Session

Design for Community and Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Mehalik, University of Pittsburgh; Yaron Doppelt, University of Pittsburgh; Christian Schunn, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

students electricity concepts in science classes.Design-based learning is intended to engage students in ways that enhance their abilities to solvereal-life problems and to reflect on their learning processes. This style of active learning is anextension of project-based learning, which is argued to enable students to relate problems toscience concepts.10, 15 Design-based learning differs from project based learning in that, inaddition to constructing and building, students engage in a design and planning process thatfollows engineering design.Typically, as was the case in the subject school district, electricity (and science in general) istaught using a guided/scripted inquiry approach to learning. Students are given materials andprocedural

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Joshua D. Neeley, Utah Valley University; Nile Edward Brewer; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

computer engineeringprogram at Utah Valley University (UVU) conclude their degree programs with a semestercapstone design experience. The intent is for students to utilize competencies developed in thefirst three years of the curriculum in the solution of an embedded design problem.Educational excellence requires exposing students to the current edge of research. To ensure thatstudent projects are along the same trajectory that the industry is moving, educators mustcontinually introduce emerging techniques, practices, and applications into the curriculum. Thefield of haptics is growing rapidly, and there is increasing interest in providingundergraduate students with a foundation in the area. It is crucial that the emerging field ofhaptics

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Andres Aguirre Jr.; Kali Johnson, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

D 0-59 FTwo mid-term exams are introduced to cover more topics, so students have a better and clearer idea aboutdifferent projects to work on. The major change is to introduce a Final project to be demonstrated on relevanttopics. The main goal is to generate ideas for a capstone project that is required of students and is nowintegrated in the new curriculum (ETEE 4099). Each student submits HWs (10%) based on the lectures givenon Number systems, Gates, Boolean Algebra, De-Morgan’s, Logic Minimization, Latches, Counters, ShiftRegisters, different applications like MUX/DEMUX, Encoder/Decoder, Half/Full Adder etc. The students sitfor two mid-term exams (each 20%) and a final exam (20%). The first mid-term exam is

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Mone Smith, University of Texas at Austin; Earl W. Huff Jr., University of Texas at Austin; Hansika Murugu, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

curriculum couldbenefit from further differentiation to cater to students with varying levels of experience and tobetter complement existing course offerings. The semester project, which required designing an accessible digital product, was acentral component of the course and a significant learning experience for students. It allowedthem to empathize with users, identify real needs, and follow a thorough design process todevelop inclusive solutions. One participant remarked, “This course was nice because we had asemester-long project, that is always good to do, especially when you think about the UX world,and I think this was talking about technologies. I do think that in some weeks we didn’t reallytalk about technologies as much as I would

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dan Parshall; Anthony Buonaquisti; Anita Callahan

, justprior to the next round of FCAT exams. A total of 209 students began the program, of which120 completed the entire curriculum. (For details regarding age, gender, and other samplingfactors, contact the first author.)Classroom EnvironmentThe curriculum itself varied over a wide range of topics that were selected by the scienceeducation team at MOSI, based upon the hope that they would both spark student interest, as wellas being related to everyday activities. Each class typically featured a brief lecture to introducethe basic concepts, followed by a hands-on experiment that allowed the students to see theconcepts in action. Over the course of the project, the broad subject areas covered wereastronomy, physics, and biology. Specific topics

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sameer Kumar; Jeffrey A. Jalkio

an integration effort relates to Northwestern University’s efforts indeveloping new core curriculum called “Engineering First” which integrates a subset ofmathematics and science with engineering (Belytschko, et al, 1997). They have chosen linearalgebra and differential equations as the courses for integration as these courses closely relatemathematics to the computer solution of engineering problems. The examples cover science ofmechanics, circuits and communication networks in these courses. The analytical topics arecovered in a four course sequence taught in a pilot version called Engineering Analysis, whichbegins with the first quarter of the freshman year. The familiarization of students with computermethods in these courses enable

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Krishna Prasad Kisi, Texas State University; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Snigdha Rangineni, Texas State University; Guntulu S. Hatipkarasulu, Texas State University; Bobbi J. Spencer, Texas State University

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Construction Engineering

to situations where they would applymathematics, but in a low-risk environment. This approach takes math out of the conceptualstate to an applied form that may address the different learning styles of our diverse studentpopulation. This project is intended to be transferable to different locations, disciplines, andcould include varied scenarios to be culturally relevant in many settings. This paper shares thecurrent status of these modeled scenarios.IntroductionPre-calculus mathematics is both challenging and exciting. With its use of mostly numbers,letters, and symbols, pre-calculus may be boring to some students as they struggle to apply theconcepts to their needs. Kislenko et al. (2007) show that a decrease in the perception ofusefulness

Conference Session

Materials

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Siddharth Savadatti, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

thermocouples placed on a polyimide sheet.Each thermocouple is placed at 45o angle vertically, effectively separating p from nthermocouples. The cold junctions are formed by bending the thermopile sheet to a wavy form.The design by Shiozaki et al forms the wavy and slit flexible thermopile generator [6]. Similarto Shiozaki’s approach to developing flexible thermoelectric generators, Lon E. Bell registeredpatent #6,700,052 B2, in March 2, 2004, where he claimed “a flexible thermoelectriccomprising: a plurality of thermoelectric elements; and first and second substrates sandwichingthe plurality of thermoelectric elements and having electrical conductors that interconnect onesof the plurality of thermoelectric elements, wherein at least one of the first

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Benson, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

learning as an acquisition and integration process, thisis further reinforced when the concept of a spiral curriculum is also considered. Kolb (2000) in his Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) highlights the necessity ofcyclical instruction. ELT divides the learning cycle in to four phases: experiencing, reflecting,thinking, and acting. As a model for education, this process is both planned (formatted) andresponsive to the situation and content/skills being learned: activities are structured and plannedbut flexible to include individual. The cyclical nature of ELT supports this project in thenecessity of revisiting concepts at various points, over time to solidify and deepen a learner’sknowledge or concept acquisition and mastery

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University; Tran Duong Nguyen, Kennesaw State University

teaching strategy to improveSLOs in different matters, including Sustainability education [15]. According to Bynum et. al [11],various BIM applications with energy performance software provide a feasible tool to assessbuilding design parameters. For instance, many teaching and learning Sustainable Designapproaches are found in the academic curriculum, such as Project-Based Learning, BIM BuildingEnergy Analysis, Parametric components for Sustainable Design, BIM plus simulation software,and “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” (LEED) certification strategy, etc. Thisavailability is an innovative teaching and learning tool for both instructors and students in buildingdesign and construction practices. In agreement with [16], to address the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Aurand P.E., Dunwoody College of Technology; David Andrew Adolfson, Dunwoody College of Technology

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First-Year Programs

technical field(machining, drafting, electronics, etc.) counted toward their BS degree in engineeringtechnology. Part of that curriculum included a two credit “Introduction to Engineering” course.Five years later, a day Mechanical Engineering program joined the School of Engineering,followed by Software Engineering the following year and Electrical Engineering in fall of 2018.The day programs are marketed toward more traditional college-aged students and areengineering (not engineering technology) programs. The day program curricula all include athree credit “Introduction to Engineering” course.There are some significant differences between the two audiences. The evening, completiondegree students tend to be working adults who have made the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lyons; Peter Dorato

Session: 2793 Master of Engineering: Past, Present, Future Peter Dorato, William Lyons Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico/ Department of Petroleum Engineering New Mexico TechI. IntroductionThe concept of Master of Engineering (M.Eng) developed in the 1960s in reaction to two factors.One factor was the recognition that a 4-year bachelors degree was not sufficient to properlyeducate an engineering professional. Various engineering-education reports

Conference Session

Design Assessment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott R. Bartholomew, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Liwei Zhang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Emily Yoshikawa, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

perceptions of first-year engineering education students, their instructors, and practicing engineers when assessing student design projects through adaptive comparative judgment? RQ2: What design values, if any, can be identified through the collected comments from adaptive comparative judgments of students, instructors, and practicing engineers?First-Year Engineering Undergraduate students beginning their post-secondary engineering studies often enrollin a first-year engineering program prior to entering their discipline-specific major, such aschemical, electrical, or biomedical engineering. Through first-year programs, students typicallyshare a common set of coursework with other engineering majors of a similar

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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Minorities in Engineering

, Engineering, Technology, andScience (COMETS) program. Funded by NASA through the Curriculum ImprovementsPartnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) program, the COMETS programinvolves collaboration among math and engineering faculty of a community college andengineering faculty of the closest neighboring four-year institution that has an establishedrelationship with a NASA Ames Research Center. This paper summarizes the results of the firstyear of implementation of the COMETS program.2. COMETS Program Objectives and ActivitiesOne of the main goals of the project is to improve student engagement in foundational math,science and engineering courses by introducing NASA-themed content in classroom activities anddemonstrations, laboratory

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Roy T.R. McGrann

. In these courses, Solid Edge 3 is used. First-year studentsare also introduced to the design process through two projects. In the first semester, they perform areverse engineering team project and, in the second semester, there is a team conceptual design project.In the curriculum of the mechanical engineering department at Binghamton University, the Computer-Aided Engineering course (ME 481) was a technical elective until 2004-5. The course is now requiredin the first semester of the third year. The prerequisites for the course are the mechanics courses(statics, dynamics and solid mechanics). This course is the initial course in an upper-division four-semester design sequence. It is followed in the second semester of the third year by the

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Roy T.R. McGrann

. In these courses, Solid Edge 3 is used. First-year studentsare also introduced to the design process through two projects. In the first semester, they perform areverse engineering team project and, in the second semester, there is a team conceptual design project.In the curriculum of the mechanical engineering department at Binghamton University, the Computer-Aided Engineering course (ME 481) was a technical elective until 2004-5. The course is now requiredin the first semester of the third year. The prerequisites for the course are the mechanics courses(statics, dynamics and solid mechanics). This course is the initial course in an upper-division four-semester design sequence. It is followed in the second semester of the third year by the

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Roy T.R. McGrann

. In these courses, Solid Edge 3 is used. First-year studentsare also introduced to the design process through two projects. In the first semester, they perform areverse engineering team project and, in the second semester, there is a team conceptual design project.In the curriculum of the mechanical engineering department at Binghamton University, the Computer-Aided Engineering course (ME 481) was a technical elective until 2004-5. The course is now requiredin the first semester of the third year. The prerequisites for the course are the mechanics courses(statics, dynamics and solid mechanics). This course is the initial course in an upper-division four-semester design sequence. It is followed in the second semester of the third year by the

Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas; Niaz Latif, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology); Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

deliver a world-class manufacturing education in spite of a growing number of challenges. 6. Strategically deploy existing and new resources into STEM and manufacturing education programs.The paper then goes on to present expanded information for each of the six (6) recommendationswithin their strategy. For example, related to recommendation 5 - To develop faculty that candeliver an excellent manufacturing education, the paper states that educators must: • Keep up to date on using new technologies. • Work with industry to understand current technical needs and update curriculum. • Collaborate with industry, professional organizations and government on projects such as design-and-build competitions and

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas MacCalla; Jacqueline Caesar; Michael Maxwell; Shay Vanderlaan; Sandra Valencia; Terena Henry; Matt Leader

Researchers, Educators and Development)project. The collaborative undertaking involves partnerships with scientists, researchers,secondary school teachers, and college faculty from several institutions nationwide. It isdesigned to build an enriching and engaging curriculum development and deploymentprogram that would prepare undergraduate, middle and high school students for researchenvironments where cyberinfrastructure systems, tools and services are used effectively tofuel a knowledge-based economy.The deployment phase is a CIERRA for STEM field careers and 21st century education andworkforce component. This two-pronged approach could be considered as K-12educational, outreach, and training (EOT) stimulus and renewal strategy. CIERRA standsfor

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymundo Arroyave, Texas A&M University; Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M University; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

field of computational materials science.Dr. Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey E. Froyd is a TEES Research Professor and the Director of Faculty Climate and Development at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the integrated, first-year curriculum in science, engineering, and mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which was recognized in 1997 with

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffani Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Yael Gertner, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Nancy Amato, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Adrienne Gulley, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jancie Harris, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Paper ID #37384Work in Progress: A New Graduate Certificate to BroadenParticipation in ComputingYael Gertner (Teaching Assistant Professor) Dr Gertner joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois in 2020 as a Teaching Assistant Professor. She received her B.S. and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Beckman Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current focus is on broadening participation in Computer Science and Computer Science Education She has been

Conference Session

Expanding Access and Opportunities for M/30

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, general chemistry; general chemistry chemistry, general chemistry statics, strength of materials, thermodynamics, at least one additional an earth science, fluid mechanics, area of basic science a biological science electric circuits, fluid mechanics engineering economicsTechnical proficient in 2 of the 3 basic reach the design level in knowledge of four civil environmental issues associatedBreadth curriculum areas: one of 4

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Lombardo, Harvard University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Avinash Uttamchandani, Harvard University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

electrical and mechanical engineering majors. Each ofthese courses has a final team project, with varying degrees of open-endedness, in lieu of atraditional exam. Design competencies were measured in these courses, both pre- and post-experience, using self-reported surveys as well as instructor assessment of ABET learningoutcomes. The post-experience surveys as well as final project rubrics were used to measurechanges in design competencies as well as changes in self-efficacy. There was a correlationbetween the changes of self-efficacy and ABET outcomes at the end of the courses for bothmajor-specific and general education courses. Students in the general education course scoredlower in final self-efficacy compared to their peers in the major

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Muskin, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jessica Perez, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

meaningful research that serves the wider research community.Specifically, our approach involves having students work on research projects that focuses on thedevelopment of pre-college curriculum or STEM outreach activities that are relevant to theresearch mentors’ work. Within this structure students gain valuable research and developmentskills, but at a level that is appropriate for their age level while reducing the projects costs andensuring safety of students. This is of value to many federally funded researchers, as they are oftenlooking for ways to add a broader impact component to their research projects. In a way thisapproach “kills two birds with one stone:” provides students an authentic research project andproduces pre-college activities