Arlington, Virginia
March 12, 2023
March 12, 2023
March 14, 2023
Diversity and Professional Engineering Education Papers
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10.18260/1-2--45038
https://peer.asee.org/45038
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Leigh McCue is an Associate Professor and Chair of George Mason University's Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Vanessa Barth is a PhD Student in the Mechanical Engineering department at George Mason University.
My work with the Mechanical Engineering Department at George Mason University started August of 2018. One of my major rolls has been assisting senior ME students with the fabrication process of their Capstone Design projects at our machine shop at Innovation Drive located near GMU's Science and Technology Campus in Manassas, VA.
Along with assisting undergraduate students with their class projects, I also help our research professors at Innovation Drive with fabrication of parts or any other needs that may arise for their lab.
This paper provides a summary of the activities and format of SeaPerch and SeaGlide camps held at George Mason University in the Summer of 2022. Each camp was four days, Monday-Thursday, with the SeaPerch camp recruiting middle-school aged students with no pre-requisite robotics knowledge and SeaGlide targeting high-school students with some prior robotics experience. In an effort to recruit a diverse camper population, both camps were offered free of charge to enrolled campers. SeaPerch and SeaGlide inherently foster hands-on engineering and technology experiences with their kit-based robotics programs. Supporting activities during the camps provided students opportunities to leverage engineering, design, science, teamwork, and art skills. Similarly, to increase student interest in research, both camps offered grade-appropriate exposure to fundamental research activities at Mason.
McCue, L. S., & Barth, V. M., & Hall, J. W. (2023, March), SeaPerch and SeaGlide Camp Implementation Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45038
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