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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 14

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Krista Schumacher, University of St. Thomas

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Paper ID #29474Rosie Revere, Engineer Ecobrick Challenge, Student Developed Lesson Plan(Resource Exchange)Ms. Krista Schumacher, University of St. Thomas Krista is an undergraduate Elementary Education and STEM Education major at the University of St. Thomas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Rosie Revere, Engineer​ Ecobrick Challenge  Student Developed Lesson Plan (Resource Exchange)     Grade Level

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Engineering Design for Elementary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University; Ming C. Tomayko, Towson University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #25482Kindergartners Planning in the Design Process: Drawn Plans and how theyRelate to First Try Design Attempts (Fundamental)Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Ph.D., is Professor of Science and Engineering Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences at Towson University. She has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, worked briefly as a process engineer, and taught high school physics and pre-engineering. She has taught engineering and science to children in multiple formal and informal settings. As a K- 8 pre-service teacher educator, she

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Engineering Professional Development using Robotics Activities

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Paper ID #26657Designing NGSS-Aligned Lesson Plans During a Teacher Professional Devel-opment Program (Fundamental)Mr. Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy received his BSEE from Amrita University and M.S in Mechatronics from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical En- gineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, serving as a research assistant under NSF-funded RET Site project. He conducts research in Mechatronics, Robotics and Controls Laboratory at NYU and his research interests include swarm robotics, computer

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Professional Development for Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; James Edward Lamberth III, Enloe High School; Evelyn L. Baldwin, Wake STEM Early College High School

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pipeline of future scientists and engineers.Through the RET program, teachers are immersed in the Center’s research and innovationecosystem, exploring a variety of topics including: wearable sensors, electronics, integration ofsensors/electronics into textiles, energy harvesting modalities for battery-free operation, systemslevel design, data management, and human factors in engineering design.During the program teachers create and implement lesson plans that integrate the informationthey have learned from their RET experience into the classroom, focusing on the EngineeringDesign Process used in the Center research environment. Giving teachers the hands-onexperience of working in a university lab environment enables them to bring relatable

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Elementary Engineering

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole J. Glen, Bridgewater State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

include the EDP in a six-week project forchildren to redesign the outdoor play area while expanding their engineering curriculum toinclude tasks less familiar to the children. This was a qualitative research study using modifiedlesson study and participant observation. All planned lessons and related activities were videorecorded, and teacher planning sessions were audio recorded. Data was analyzed using open andaxial coding. Findings from this study showed that the preschool teachers’ ability to plan for andimplement specific components of the EDP improved over the course of the six-week study,moving from the researcher having to consistently remind the teachers of the EDP and theteachers unsure about how to include steps, to the teachers being

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 12

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Krista Schumacher, University of St. Thomas; Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas

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pairs of scissors because this demonstrates application of knowledge.Presentation on empathy and history (Titanic) What do they change in their plans or talk about changingTimer for teacher because of what happened/what they observed?Engineering design notebooks Pages completed in their design notebookTowels How thorough are their plans?Red, yellow, and blue slips of paper to draw Do they collaborate while working through this aspect?Academic Language

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Engineering Design for Elementary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amanda C. Johnston, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Ruben Dario Lopez-Parra, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Barbara Fagundes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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identified six reflective decision-makingelements related to initial planning and redesign. It was developed using the Engineering isElementary curriculum [17] and was developed with data from upper elementary school agestudents engaged in an engineering design challenge. The six elements of reflective decisionmaking included: Articulate multiple solutions, evaluate pros and cons, intentionally selectsolution, retell performance of solution, analyze solution according to specific evidence, andpurposefully choose improvements. These decisions were framed by the structure of thecurriculum used for that study and therefore elements from that framework such as the notion ofidentifying decisions points, provided a starting point for this work . However

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Computational Thinking in Pre-College Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony Andrew Lowe, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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understanding of computation, mainlywhen programming tasks are not present, is less defined or non-existent. ComputationalThinking (CT) generally refers to knowledge and skills apart from, and possibly a precursor to,the ability to write computer programs, yet is commonly measured through the quality ofprogramming. Are there ways of qualifying CT ‘maturity’ outside of programming tasks?This study looks at the intersection of CT and CS in first-grade learners who are developingcomputational solutions involving literacy tasks. Students retell a story by animating charactersin Scratch Jr. by breaking down the story, creating an animation storyboard, and finallyimplementing the plan in Scratch Jr. For most of the participants, this is their first time

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Professional Development for Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida; Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida; Manopriya Devisetty Subramanyam, University of South Florida; Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, University of South Florida

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, mathematically, and technologically literate populace” is the effective integration oftechnology and engineering in K-12 curricula. Key to this process is current teachers, and evenmore critical, future teachers (pre-service). This work is particularly interested in the engineeringtraining of pre-service teachers during their engagement with middle school students, theirunderstanding of their role in strengthening the engineering pipeline, and their development ofSTEM lesson plans. Engineering faculty instruct pre-service teachers to explore STEM issues ina capstone course entitled “Contemporary STEM Issues”. Successes and challenges of the courseare presented relative to 1) pre-service teachers’ preparation (through a capstone course) toeffectively

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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Kimberly Farnsworth, Arizona State University; Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University

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LearningIntroductionThis paper describes a case-based, mixed-methods study of how K-12 teachers support andscaffold student learning in a Problem-based Learning (PBL) engineering lesson. The studyexamined how K-12 engineering teachers planned to support student learning using scaffolding,how they implemented scaffolds during PBL engineering activities, and how they reflected upontheir PBL engineering lesson implementation.PBL in engineering educationEngineering practice and other design-focused fields involve solving complex problems, often incollaborative teams. Generally, these engineering problems do not have a single solution andrequire multifaceted skillsets from many domains. However, engineering students often findthemselves unprepared to manage messy

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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Melissa A. Dagley, University of Central Florida; Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida; Hyoung Jin Cho, University of Central Florida; Eleazar Vasquez

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technologicaladvances in their prospective fields of science and engineering.The NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site in Collaborative MultidisciplinaryEngineering Design Experiences for Teachers (CoMET) discussed here was designed to provideteachers hands-on engineering design experience covering all aspects of the sensor research forthe IoT era, from the manufacturing of a sensor, to the hardware and software that allows them tooperate. In order to support the STEM educational services for teachers and students in middleand high schools, this site program focused on the creation of lesson plans easily adapted to anyclassroom and competent teacher trainers who could ensure quality pre-service and in-serviceteacher education, by providing multi

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Engineering Professional Development using Robotics Activities

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hye Sun You, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sonia Mary Chacko, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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-rects K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach programs that enrich the STEM education of over1,000 students annually. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Designing Robotics-based Science Lessons Aligned with the Three Dimensions of NGSS-plus-5E Model: A Content Analysis (Fundamental)1. IntroductionLesson planning is a cognitive process which entails deliberative thinking about issues concerningthe objective of student performance, extent of planned activities, logical organization of content,types of instructional processes to be deployed, and strategies for assessing students at the end ofthe lesson [1,2]. Among a myriad of factors requiring consideration in contemplating to plan

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Interest & Identity

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Ann Jacobs, Manhattan College; Zahra Shahbazi, Manhattan College

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education undergraduates. During thisprogram, 79% of Engineering Ambassadors were engineering majors who had first-handexperiences with engineering concepts. The remaining 21% were math or science educationmajors whose expertise included developing lesson plans and teaching to the needs of middleand high school students.The second group comprises middle and high school students. Career choices begin formingtoward the end of middle and beginning of high school. When students demonstrate an interestand talent in STEM, it is important to encourage these students in their pursuit of this interest. Tomeasure the success of the encouragement, one must begin asking some valuable questions.Which lesson plans were most successful? Did the students seem

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

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Ryan Barlow, Utah State University; Max L. Longhurst, Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University

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participating STEM teachers. Throughout thecamp, the STEM teachers participated in authentic engineering experiences with their studentsand engaged in professional learning discourse about three-dimensional science instruction andthe camp experience. They also participated in engineering education workshops led by theresearchers, which included discussion about the SEEd Standards and the Framework,engineering design activities, and collaborative work sessions to plan a lesson related toengineering implementation in their own classroom. The main purpose of the teacherprofessional learning was to help the participating STEM teachers incorporate therecommendations from the framework for K-12 science education and the SEEd Standards.During the academic

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PCEE Resource Exchange

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christina Anlynette Alston, Rice University; Carolyn Nichol, Rice University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

an Assistant Professor in Diagnostic Radiology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she conducted research on nonviral gene therapy systems. At Rice University she has developed and taught courses in The Department of Bioengineering includ- ing Numerical Methods, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Systems Physiology, Biomaterials and Advances in BioNanotechnology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Water Sustainability: Science & Engineering Activities for the High School Classroom (Resource Exchange)The goal of this resource exchange is to disseminate over 27 lesson plans, research posters, and educational videos created by K-12teachers conducting summer internships in the field of

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Program Evaluation Studies

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mia Dubosarsky, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jeanne H. Hubelbank, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Pre-College Engineering Education

STEM Integration Program Mia Dubosarsky & Jeanne HubelbankIntroductionHigh-quality STEM education is crucial for the future success of American students. Researchersrecognize the critical role that school and district leaders play in implementation of educationalreforms as well as the lack of best-practice STEM education expertise held by school and districtleaders. The program, STEM Integration for Education Leaders (STEMi), was developed by theSTEM Education Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to guide school and districtleaders in the process of developing a strategic plan for STEM integration. The paper presentsthe framework, content, and evaluation findings from five

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony Andrew Lowe, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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noting that teaching a simpler notionalmachine is not enough to assist novices, as there are always layers of abstraction hidden from thelearner. Du Boulay et al.’s plan for instilling a notional machine likely fails because it assumesfact can be assembled into a working mental model. Many novices fail as “[m]ental models areoften not the product of deliberate reasoning; they can be formed intuitively and quiteunconsciously” (Sorva, 2013, p. 8:9). Developing a notional machine seems more like otherprocedural tasks, such as riding a bike. “If you have tried to … teach a child to ride a bike, youwill have been struck by the wordlessness and the diagrammatic impotence of the teachingprocess” (Bruner, 1966b, p. 10). Bruner points out how useless

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 12

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sarah Catherine Lilly, University of Virginia; Anne Marguerite McAlister, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia

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science and computer science. Specifically, this study exploreshow the same elementary teachers both implicitly and explicitly support students across twoclassroom contexts, one class section with a larger proportion of students who were tracked intoaccelerated mathematics and another class section with a larger proportion of students withindividualized educational plans (IEPs). Transcripts of whole-class discussion were analyzed forinterdisciplinary instructional moves in which teachers verbally supported the integration ofdisciplines to help students to engage in interdisciplinary activities. Findings reveal that all of theinterdisciplinary instructional moves were implicit for the class section with a large proportion ofstudents in advanced

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Zachary Minken, Arcadia University; Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Arcadia University; Najah Naylor

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external site.) (Links to an external site.). In 2014, Dr. Macalalag conceptualized and developed the STEM Education Graduate Certificate Program (Links to an external site.) for in-service elementary and middle school teachers. The certificate program’s goal is to foster teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in planning, implementing and assessing instructions that incorporate science and engineering practices based on the National Research Council’s Framework for K-12 Science Education. The STEM certificate program has five courses (15 credits) that include an environmental education preview to Sicily, Italy.Ms. Najah Naylor MEd, MBA Ms. Najah Naylor is a Computer Science Educator within the Philadelphia School

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Kenneth Berry, Southern Methodist University

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proposal team, amajor reason our bid failed was the lack of a well-trained technology workforce and lack oftechnology education in the local schools [1]. A year earlier Southern Methodist University(SMU) started working with a local Independent School District (ISD) on a statewide grant toincrease the number of teachers in their district who are certified by the state to teach computerscience (CS) at the high school level. As an outcome of our first grant partnership, we developeda proposal to the National Science Foundation CSforAll: RPP program [2]. We met several timesover six months to develop a pilot program that we planned to base the grant upon prior towriting the grant. As a result, this past August our proposal was funded (NSF 2031515

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PCEE Resource Exchange

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Jenny Valdez, Las Vegas Academy of the Arts

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toweight each criterion based on its importance. Next, students are given a list of materials and their associatedcost. Teams must come up with several different solutions and then evaluate the solutions. After selecting thebest design, the group constructs it. A pegboard base serves as the platform for constructing the thermal panel.Once built, the team tests its performance. Finally, the group optimizes the design and tests it again. Solar Water Heater with Commercial Thermal Panel Pegboard Base for Thermal Panel Construction Unit plan and other solar kit lessons available at

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kelsey Watts, Clemson University; Will Richardson, Clemson University

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is to expand this concept of using active learning techniques that directly complement coded simulations to a high school level by developing structured lesson plans that could be followed by instructors and students with a minimal computational background. In-Class Activity ▪ Hands-on or role-playing activity related to the model ▪ Can be conducted with inexpensive materials ▪ Lesson plans provide suggested discussion questions Goal: increase student buy-in and introduce them to computational and biological concepts Model Tutorial

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PCEE Resource Exchange

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abeera P. Rehmat, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marissa Christina Owens, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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and climate, weather patterns, weather hazards, weather proofstructures, and engineering design. Students conducted research on their Chromebooks, watchedvideos, and read books to gather enough information to assist them with their design. They askedquestions, imagined and planned possible solutions, created and improved their prototype, andshared their design solutions. The constraints of the prototype included using only the providedmaterials (e.g. craft sticks, empty paper towels, or cardboard). The height of the structure couldnot be smaller than 15 cm, with an entrance and exit that could open and close. In futureiterations of this lesson, teachers could provide students with a budget from which they wouldhave to ‘purchase

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Matthew Perkins Coppola, Purdue University Fort Wayne

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task of adapting or creating their own two-day engineering mini unit to deliverduring their school-based field experience. After receiving feedback from the professor, the PETtaught the lessons in a K-5 classroom. After teaching, the PET completed a structured reflectioncomprised of Likert-style and open-ended questions. This qualitative study delved into the structured reflections of 121 participants from sixsemesters of implementation to provide insights into the PET’s perceptions of how they taughtthe lessons. Responses to four open-ended questions were chosen for this analysis: (1) Whatsections of the lesson went according to plan?; (2) What sections of the lesson did you have toadjust or omit?; (3) What things would you adjust or

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Amanda M. Gunning, Mercy College; Meghan E. Marrero, Mercy College; Kristen V. Larson, Mercy College

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professional developmentprogram positioned the importance of the inclusion of engineering content and encouragedteachers to explore community-based, collaborative activities that identified and spoke to societalneeds and social impacts through engineering integration. Data collected from two of the coursesin this project, Enhancing Mathematics with STEM and Engineering in the K-12 Classroom,included participant reflections, focus groups, microteaching lesson plans, and field notes.Through a case study approach and grounded theory analysis, themes of self-efficacy, activelearning supports, and social justice teaching emerged. The following discussion on teachers’engineering and STEM self-efficacy, teachers’ integration of engineering to address

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 5

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University; Megan O'Donnell, Arizona State University; Kristi Lynn Eustice, Arizona State University; Carolyn Aitken Nichol, Rice University; Kristen Jaskie, Arizona State University; Andreas S. Spanias, Arizona State University; Kimberly Farnsworth, Indiana University-Bloomington; Jennifer M. Blain Christen, Arizona State University; Mi Yeon Lee, Arizona State University

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conducting lab experiments with materials sent directly to their homes, somecompleting their experience fully online, and some completing portions of lab work in person oncampus. Each teacher developed an engineering lesson plan based on the corresponding center’sresearch to be implemented either in person or virtually during the 2020-2021 academic schoolyear. Research posters, created with support from graduate student and faculty mentors, werepresented to industry partners, education partners, center members, and the NSF. Support for theteachers as they implement lessons, present posters, and disseminate their developed curricula,has continued throughout the year. Common survey and interview/focus group protocols,previously designed specifically

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NGSS & Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Cellitti, Drexel University ; Rasheda Likely, Drexel University; Magdalene Kate Moy, Drexel University; Christopher George Wright, Drexel University

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codebook includedthemes and subthemes from the matrix with examples of each code. Intercoder agreementstatistics were calculated using MAXQDA software and averaged a correlation of 97.3%.The findings indicate an emphasis on the following SEPs: (1) planning and carrying outinvestigations (2) developing and using models and (3) analyzing and interpreting data. Forplanning and carrying out investigations, the coded segments encouraged students to makeobservations to be used later for analysis. A few segments related to making predictions but nonethat asked students to plan an investigation or evaluate data collection methods. Anothercommon practice that appeared in engineering-specific units was developing and using models.For this practice, students

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Christopher Cappelli, Georgia Institute of Technology; Euisun Kim, CEISMC; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Helms, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey H. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marc Weissburg, Georgia Institute of Technology

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teachers tobe able to develop understanding of BID and its integration into engineering design process togauge students’ interest to utilize natural world elements as inspiration for their design, and toimplement BID focused high school engineering courses.The first PL for the project was planned for Summer 2020. Our original idea was to provide thefirst PL experience for the participating teachers as part of six-week-long summer internships inperson at the university research laboratories focused on biology and bio-inspired design. Thegoal of these internships is to improve engineering teachers’ knowledge of bio-inspired designby partnering with cutting-edge engineers and scientists to study animal features and behaviorsand their applications to

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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William A. Kitch, Angelo State University; Andrea L. Robledo, Angelo State University; Wanda James Green

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thatincorporated the history of rockets and space exploration and arts activities into the physics andengineering design curriculum followed by community presentations at the SAMFA Family Day.With the onset of COVID-19, camp organizers were challenged to deliver a similar outreachprogram to local families given the new confines of health and wellness restrictions. The goals ofthe 2020 camp offerings were for 70 percent of participants to come from underrepresentedminority groups, and for 65 percent of participants to complete their rocket design and build andattend a launch session.COVID ProgramThe planning started with a meeting of camp organizers to discuss alternatives to accommodate thesafety restrictions accompanying the global pandemic. The

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Amanda Johnston, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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, examples of prompts of elicit student ideas consisted of short phrases that theteachers used to better understand the students’ ideas. For example, Ms. Lane asked “What doyou mean?” and “So what is this?” when students were working on their plans. In otherexamples, when his students were testing their ideas, Mr. Smith asked, “What’s your solution?”,when Ms. Allen was trying to understand her students’ plan for their redesign, she asked “So thisis a flat mirror [drawn on the plan]?”, and Mr. Smith said “Just tell me your solution, if you hadto give the elevator pitch, you have 15 seconds here.” Although short, phrases such as these gavestudents opportunities to explain their ideas and to be responsible for explaining those ideas.They also helped