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Pre-College: Engineering Undergraduates as Teachers

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Michelle Cook, Clemson University; Leigh Martin, Clemson University

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Paper ID #18778Developing Teaching Internships for Science and Engineering Undergradu-ate Students and Project Team Reflection (Evaluation)Dr. Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University M.S. Kennedy is an Associate Professor within the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Clemson University. Her research group focused on the mechanical and tribological characterization of thin films, coatings and biological materials. She also contributes to the engineering education community through her research relating to student identity, motivation and undergraduate research programs.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (2)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University

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Paper ID #18779Elementary Student Reflections on Failure Within and Outside of the Engi-neering Design Process (Fundamental)Dr. Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Science 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 informal settings. As a pre-service teacher educator, she includes engineering in her

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada; Hasan Deniz, University of Nevada; Erdogan Kaya, University of Nevada; Ezgi Yesilyurt, University of Nevada

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research: To what extent did the teacher’s NOEviews improve after exposure to a NGSS-aligned engineering design challenge course? Howsuccessful was the teacher in executing the engineering design process as taught through anengineering design challenge? We provide here a single case analysis for one teacher as a pilotstudy for future research. The paper provides a brief overview of our case study research inregards to data, methods, and preliminary results. Our data sources include pre/post NOEassessment, in-service teacher written reflections, and assignments.Curriculum design Learning goals and overview: The three-credit master’s level course was for in-servicescience teachers and focused on the EDP through an engineering design challenge

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Mia Delarosa

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peers on anengineering design project.6-8 Yet, there is a gap in the literature about how that communicationis perceived by the students themselves. Little is known about middle school designers’perspectives on their own communication challenges or their perspectives on peers’communication challenges. Further, few studies report on interventions aimed at improvingyoung students’ ability to negotiate communication challenges during collaborative designsessions.In previous analysis of students’ self-reported data related to communication challenges duringengineering design teams, we found that middle school designers grew in their metacognitiveawareness of their group’s communication patterns across an engineering design-reflect-designprocedure

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leanne Petry, Central State University; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; M. Suzanne Franco, Wright State University; Brett Doudican, University of Dayton; Ahsan Mian; Raghavan Srinivasan, Wright State University

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this program is a work in progress, only preliminary data from the first two cohorts areavailable for program evaluation. Current evaluation efforts were based on participantreflections, pre- and post-program Local Systemic Change (LSC)11 surveys, participation inacademic year follow-up activities, as well as data collection and reflection during the follow-upacademic year. These sources were aggregated to describe the impact of the participants’summer experiences for primary investigators leading the program, materials and manufacturingresearchers, in addition to the NSF funding agency. The evidence collected regarding the nineobjectives based on the three research topics are listed in Table 1 including progress andrecommendations for the

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Pre-College: Resource Exchange

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Colleen Sage, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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.-Checklist Template (see below)ACTIVITY:-Ask Students to brainstorm things they see every day that consume energy. Create a list of student ideas (i.e. therefrigerator).- Play BrainPop’s Conserving Energy video and discuss key concepts. (Note: The quiz that goes along with thevideo can be taken as a pre-test and then retaken after the video as a means of assessment for objective 1.)- Refer back to the list of student ideas of thingsthat consume energy. Ask students to brainstormways in which we could use less energy witheach item.-Assign the Sustainable energy checklist to becompleted at home that assesses several simpleareas of energy efficiency. After completing thechecklist, have students write a short reflection ofways they could improve their

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah M. Grzybowski, The Ohio State University; Tiffany Wild, The Ohio State University; Se Jeong Yang, The Ohio State University

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an issue not only with competency,but also with a lack of self-efficacy in math, science, and engineering which creates anxiety. According to Beck-Winchatz and Riccobono (2007), the majority of students with VI arefollowing general education curricula. However, less than 30 individuals with VI earned ascience and engineering research doctorate on average each year from 2001 to 2009 compared to25,600 people without a disability on average per year during the same time period (NSF, 2012).Lack of higher level degrees in the science and engineering fields do not reflect the fact thatstudents with VI have the same spectrum of cognitive abilities as sighted peers (Kumar,Ramasamy, & Stefanich, 2001) and with appropriate accommodations can

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Richard Douglas Stock; Vanisa Turney

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African American, eight were White or Caucasian, two were mixed race,and one was Hispanic. The STEM/Literacy afterschool program met twice a week from 4-5:30pm at Kiser PK-8 School from October through April. The program was facilitated by two KiserSTEM instructors and two undergraduate engineering students from the University of Dayton.Although the engineering activities were initially designed to be facilitated in a single, 30-60minute classroom session, the addition of the literacy component and incorporating more timefor reflection and redesign made it such that a single activity was generally facilitated over four,90 minute sessions. On the first day of the activity, the students engaged in a read aloud andengagement activity focusing on the

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University; Monica H. Lamm, Iowa State University; Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Anne T. Estapa, Iowa State University

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bridge, full-scale bakery, etc.  Emphasize the importance of iteration and the acceptability of failure  Ensure that there is reflection time each period to discuss how the content of the day might be incorporated into the math or science classroom.The summary plans for each day were as follow: Day 1: Pre-assessment. What Do EngineersDo? Similarities, differences, and synergisms between engineering and science. Bridge Building– defining and working toward criteria, and within constraints. Day 2: Baking Like an Engineer.What to do when the answer’s not in the book: test engineer approaches; simple experimentalapproaches; data presentation; data analysis. Day 3: That Bridge Again – returning to anengineering problem with more context

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Pre-college: Summer Experiences for Students and Teachers (2)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Alison Haugh Nowariak, University of St. Thomas; AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas, University of St. Thomas; Jenna Laleman, University of St. Thomas

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focuses on evaluating methods of effective practice of an engineering design summerprogram for middle school students. The paper reflects on findings and observations regardinggender groupings in STEM, and how they affect student learning and confidence. In 2009,President Obama's Administration implemented the "Educate to Innovate" program to emphasizeSTEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. Women and men hold nearlyequal professional positions in the biological sciences, and close to that in math, yet womencomprise less than 30% of the science and engineering workforce as a whole.1 Students as youngas kindergarten express the belief that fields of study such as science and math are “boysubjects.”2 The societal norm that males

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Pre-College: Techniques and Programs for Promoting Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen B. Wendell Ph.D., Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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process and artifacts. Students view and critique these to becomefamiliar with the kinds of representations that the notebook affords and the extent to which thenotebook can tell the story of another engineer’s ideas and outcomes. After this mentor textdiscussion, the students embark on a design task and create their notebooks as they work. Mid-design share-outs or gallery walks of the notebooks are important in this phase. Finally, the thirdphase involves students reviewing their notebooks with their design team, ideally as they preparea report or other more formal written artifact about their design, and the teacher and whole classof students reviewing multiple notebooks to reflect on design processes and phenomena.    Other supporting

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Pre-College: Engineering Undergraduates as Teachers

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sneha A. Tharayil, The University of Texas, Austin

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service Volunteer- ism FOCUS service Figure 1. Continuum of service and learning. Adapted from Swanson et al. (2014). Although there does exist a broad range to the definitions and types of community-oriented curricula, consistent themes do emerge in the service learning literature. These themessuggest that a true service-learning experience is at its essence a rich, authentic academicexperience entwined with a reflective experience of serving community needs. Indeed, ongoingreflection on the service experience and its pertinence to the academic objectives of thecurriculum is

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Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (3)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aimee Cloutier, Texas Tech University; Guo Zheng Yew, Texas Tech University; Siddhartha Gupta, Texas Tech University; C. Kalpani Dissanayake; Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University; Susan A. Mengel, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse P.E., Michigan Technological University

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clarity and reflect the scientific nature ofthe content10. As part of the in-class discipline specific activity, the students were divided intogroups by the instructors and were asked to collaborate with group members in dealing with theengineering challenge at hand. This grouping was done to emphasize the importance andnecessity of teamwork in engineering where cooperation impacts the productivity andperformance of the team and also to implement the concept of cooperative learning2,14. Based on feedback collected from program participants, instructors, and counselors duringthe 2015 program, some changes were made to the 2016 program. The theme for 2016 was CO2capture, which apart from being a global problem was chosen in part because the

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Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Ikenna Q. Ezealah, Clemson University; Christopher Ciuca, SAE International; Meghan M. Stoyanoff, SAE International

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based on NGSS havethe potential to significantly impact assessment systems designed to evaluate student knowledgeand performance following instruction (National Research Council, 2014).Prior research studies which have been conducted in the broader STEM and NGSS assessmentrealms have produced suggested frameworks and practices for development of high-qualitySTEM assessments. Assessments in structured informal STEM environments should not containonly factual recall or other low cognition measures but should address a broad range ofcompetencies and should provide authentic evidence of learning and abilities (Bell, 2009).Specifically, NGSS assessments should reflect the three dimensions: disciplinary core ideas,crosscutting concepts, and science

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Pre-College: Resource Exchange

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Mia Delarosa; Rebecca Hooper; Jill Denman Murphy; Cody Anderson, Scottsdale Community College

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not necessarily reflect those of NSF or DOE.

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Pre-College: Working with Teachers to Improve K-12 Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah E. Lopez, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; Moe Tajvidi P.E., Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University, Center for Engineering Education Research

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, the question remains, howshould those programs be tailored to best match the needs of teachers in rural areas? Toanswer this, we identify notable areas of low confidence and high benefit from responsesof rural teachers to the survey.From section one, the area of least confidence among rural teachers was their ability toimplement the NGSS in their classrooms, as measured by agreement to the followingstatement: “I feel confident enough in my foundational engineering knowledge levels tobe able to develop and deliver engineering content focused on applications that satisfyengineering standards in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).” (M = 3.8 on a7 point scale, centered at 4) This weakness was reflected across all demographiccategories

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gina Navoa Svarovsky, University of Notre Dame; Scott A. Pattison, Institute for Learning Innovation; Monae Verbeke, Institute for Learning Innovation; Marcie Benne, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry; Pam Greenough Corrie MS, Mt. Hood Community College

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% thought parents would be “interested” and28% thought parents would be “in the middle.” These differences across staff and parentsresponses may reflect staff members’ own hesitation about the topic as appropriate for earlychildhood education, as well as feelings that there are already many other content areas that theprogram must cover.Families and staff primarily associate engineering with building and constructionDespite their excitement and interest, both parents and staff members indicated a somewhatnarrow perception of engineering, although a large minority of respondents mentioned planningand problem solving. Table 1 highlights the most common coded response categories for eachgroup and the frequency of responses within each category

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Pre-College: Teacher Impact on Student Mastery

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University, Teacher Education and Leadership; Jared W. Garlick, Utah State University

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English Language Arts (ELA)classrooms. Other researchers, however, have studied discourse in science classrooms todetermine what teacher discourse moves promoted dialogic spells in whole-class discussions.Zhai and Dillon, for instance, found that when teachers used storytelling and analogies to teachaspects of botany, their students were more likely to construct elaborate verbal explanations intheir subsequent discussions.11 McNeill and Pimentel’s research in urban high school classroomsin many ways reflected the findings of Nystrand and colleagues.6 They found that dialogicdiscourse was more likely to occur when science teachers made explicit connections to previousstudents’ comments and when they asked “open-ended questions,” or questions that

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Pre-college: Blending Computers, Computational Thinking, and Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Chanel Beebe, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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thinking competencies in the context of problem solving in children.  The computational thinking competencies which most frequently appeared in educational apps appropriate for K-2 aged children.Each of the two researchers engaged in this process first coded one app individually. Next, weshared our experiences and findings to come into agreement about what certain activities in theapps required users to do. We then were able to generate examples and non-examples ofcomputational thinking. As we developed a collaborative understanding, we modified thecodebook with examples and non-examples reflected in Appendix 2.Next we used the codebook from Appendix 2 to code all 41 apps. Researchers spent exactly 30minutes

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Pre-college: Blending Computers, Computational Thinking, and Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chandan Dasgupta, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Jie Chao, The Concord Consortium

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to reflect on the design decision. AlthoughSam claimed to have a good orientation of the panels, Ms. KM problematized the claim. She didso while making sure that Sam remained motivated. She provided positive feedback (“Yeah yournumbers came way down. You’re moving in the right direction…”). At the same time, she alsomade sure that Sam knew that she would come back and check on the progress (“I’ll come backand check in a little bit”). In the process, she conveyed that the design process was not completeyet and there was room for further improvement thereby encouraging Sam to perform moreiterations. Ms. KM also ensured that her students had the authority and felt ownership of their work(Engle & Conant, 2002). For instance- KM

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brett Doudican, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Brian Lawrence LaDuca, University of Dayton

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outcome in their challenge or original ideas.In the context of the curriculum development, the ACTlab facilitated for the NSF-RET teacherparticipants was used to provide the teachers with the opportunity to critically reflect on theirideas of what is and what could be done in their classrooms and in the curriculum they were todevelop. As part of this process, the teachers were asked to identify their perspectives on avariety of topics such as: My classroom is structured or fluid; Silence in my class is good or notgood; The most effective and valuable learning happens in or out of the classroom. Additionally,as part of this process the teachers participated in a challenge sharing exercise. In this exercisethe teachers identified three challenges

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Pre-college: Blending Computers, Computational Thinking, and Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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. Computational thinking in out-of-school environmentsFamilies can play an important role in children’s learning experiences, because children spendmost of their time in out-of-school environments (Stevens & Bransford, 2007). Theseenvironments include everyday settings like family activities or in designed spaces like museumsand science centers. Children are engaged in different activities with their families that mayprovide them a wealth of learning opportunities. Through these learning opportunities, childrendeeply engage in learning while interacting with family members (and others), build on theirprior knowledge and interest, develop stronger thinking, and finally reflect on their learningexperiences through sensemaking conversations with their

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Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chelsea Monty, University of Akron; Alvaro A. Rodriguez, University of Akron; Zach Griffith

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have begun applying constructivist project-basedlearning and higher ordered thinking into their classrooms. Higher order thinking can be definedas a complex mode of thinking often resulting in multiple solutions. According toResnick,“higher order thinking involves uncertainty, application of multiple criteria, reflection,and self-regulation (Resnick, 1987).” In broader terms, higher order thinking can be classifiedusing Bloom’s taxonomy, overlapping with levels above comprehension (Bloom, 1956). Whilesimple recall of information is an example of lower order cognitive thinking skills, higher orderthinking skills involve analysis, evaluation, and synthesis (Zohar, 2003). Therefore, an essentialgoal of STEM education is to develop these higher

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Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debra Brockway, Educational Testing Service

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completed in two parts: withindividual students brainstorming for a period of time and then working together to exchangeideas and brainstorm as a pair. After completing the redesign activities, students were asked aseries of reflection questions related to the difficulty and engagement of the activities as well asquestions about their experiences, if any, with similar kinds of activities. We have preliminaryfindings from the cog labs conducted with all students working in pairs and a few comparisonsbetween the two sets of cog labs. Redesign ChallengeStudents were provided information about the relative access people worldwide have to drinkingwater. And they were given a labeled diagram and description of a solar still that can producepure water

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Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Hillary E. Merzdorf, Purdue University; Tingxuan Li, Purdue University; Amanda C. Johnston, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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English or mathematicsclassrooms. The advantage of the TAGS framework is that science/engineering content andpractice can be reflected together as ​integration​. In contrast, the revised Bloom’s taxonomy doesnot have this advantage, because the integrative nature of science and engineering content andpractice is missing. Therefore, we chose TAGS in this research.Process of Design (POD), Engineering Literacy, and Technology Literacy The Process of Design (POD) is a framework derived from the key indicators identifiedby Moore, Glancy, Tank, Kersten, Smith, & Stohlmann​12​ within their ​Framework for QualityK-12 Engineering Education.​ It is a research-based, rigorously evaluated framework which mapsto the common design processes

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Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pam Page Carpenter; Adam Stevens, North Carolina State University; Erik Schettig, Wake County Public School System; Landon K. Mackey, North Carolina State University; Catherine M. McEntee, North Carolina State University

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Undergraduate Community Lifelong Colleges Learning Figure 1 - Promoting lifelong learningPre College Programs The FREEDM Center’s precollege program was revised in 2016 to reflect the vision andmission of the Center via modernizing the electric grid and to engage participants in engineeringeducation-problem solving, engineering

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Pre-College: Working with Teachers to Improve K-12 Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katey Shirey, University of Maryland, College Park

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tools freed up Leslie in the lab space; Leslie didn’t haveto run from group to group assisting each group individually. Her attention to the whole roomand the larger task of inquiry overall could be wider than if she were narrowed in on helpingindividual groups.Leslie held a constructivist stance in inquiry instruction. I believe that Leslie desired studentswork with data from empirical observation and withheld giving away the steps because Lesliethinks learning happens when students construct understandings from experiences,communication, and reflection, indicating a constructivist learning stance. A constructivist stanceis made up of many smaller reasoning resources including perhaps, “knowledge is constructednot given” and others. Leslie

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Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (2)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian Hartman, Walla Walla University; Randy L. Bell, Oregon State University

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as they apply to K-12 education. In 2013, the Next Generation Science Standards reflected the growing interest in K-12 engineering by integrating it with the science curriculum. In contrast to the prior standards, the NGSS explicitly included engineering as a foundational component of the curriculum, with engineering concepts included in the requirements for each grade level. In fact, the final NGSS document body included over three hundred uses of the word engineering. Taking advantage of recent research into science learning, the standards also propose a new view of teaching science. Whereas the earlier standards heavily emphasized science content knowledge, the new standards took a more holistic view of science. Science education

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Pre-College: Evaluation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Johnna Bolyard, West Virginia University; Darran Cairns, West Virginia University; David Luke Loomis, West Virginia University; Sera Mathew; Kelly Leigh Watts, Regional Educaion Service Agency 3

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“using mathematics andcomputational thinking”, as well as crosscutting concepts focused on “systems and systemmodels” 11. Engineering design projects provide extensive opportunities to engage in practicescommon to both the CSSM and Framework: defining problems, constructing explanations,developing models, using appropriate tools and attending to precision.Engineering design done well requires an unfamiliar role for many teachers. Teachers must shiftfrom evaluative to interpretive perspectives while moving away from guiding students to correctanswers and toward emphasizing exploration and engagement 12. Teaching practices must fosterstudent reflection on their own reasoning and interpretation of problems 13. Rather than warningstudents when they

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Pre-College: Teacher Impact on Student Mastery

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati; Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Helen Meyer, University of Cincinnati

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force in an authentic way. Students carry many misconceptions about how things interact and move, and this (unit) will provide authentic opportunities to correct these (misconceptions).However, in her reflection on the unit, she did note that “the length of time needed for the designproject required significantly more time (over two weeks due to snow days) than is typicallyneeded to cover the topic of friction: 2-3 days.” Teachers continually need to assess whetheradditional time spent on a topic, even if student understanding increases, is worth the investment. Another middle school science teacher taught her students the properties of rocks, minerals,and soils by having them design eco-friendly paint by grinding rocks and