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Vote for STOMP!
Posted by Veronica Richter in Active Citizenship, School of Engineering, Staff, Students, Uncategorized, Video on October 6, 2011
The Center for Engineering Education and Outreach‘s Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) program has been nominated for the Partnering for Excellence Innovations in Science + Technology + Engineering + Math (STEM) Education competition. STOMP seeks to create an engineering curriculum that reaches across all disciplines, piques K-12 student’s interest in engineering, and improves the student’s problem solving skills while preparing Tufts undergrads in the School of Engineering, as well as k-12 teachers, with the necessary tools to become educational change agents.
Want to help them take the “People’s Choice” title? You have until Oct. 26 to cast your vote. You can also vote via Facebook. Good luck, Jumbos!
Check out a video of the 2009 STOMP fellows in action:
The Robo-Sundae Creator
Posted by Georgy Cohen in Blogs, Research, School of Engineering, Students on July 18, 2011
Does the effort of adding chocolate sauce, sprinkles and whipped cream to your ice cream ever feel like too much? Well fret no more. Summer interns Jess Scolnic and Tucker Stone at the Tufts University Center for Engineering, Education and Outreach (CEEO) have invented a Robo-Sundae Creator. Using Bluetooth wireless connection, the machine takes a bowl of ice cream down the line, adding toppings along the way.
Scolnic writes:
We’ve spent most of the day making sundaes for everyone! These run throughs have led us to make many small adjustments to the Robo-Sundae Creator. We ran into a small problem when one customer wanted no cherries. Our program, however, didn’t recognize that correctly and gave him…infinity cherries.
They’ve blogged the whole process so you can catch up on all the challenges they faced and the innovative solutions they devised.
Melissa Pickering Featured by Fast Company
Posted by Georgy Cohen in Alumni, School of Engineering on July 7, 2011
Tufts University and Center for Engineering and Education Outreach (CEEO) alum Melissa Pickering will be the cover story of the latest issue of Fast Company magazine. Pickering was the manager of operations at CEEO and founded iCreate, a company dedicated to introduce K-12 students to technology that can help their developing science and math skills. Way to go Melissa!
Tufts Engineer Honored as a “Woman to Watch”
Posted by Georgy Cohen in Active Citizenship, Alumni, Research, School of Engineering, Web on February 23, 2011
Melissa Pickering (E’05), a previous assistant director of the Center for Engineering Educational Outreach (CEEO) at Tufts, was recently selected as one of Mass High Tech’s female technology and business leaders for its 2011 Women to Watch program. The program seeks to honor select women for their contributions to their technology sectors and their ongoing role as leaders in their communities.
Pickering, before coming to the CEEO, worked as a Ride Design Engineer at Walt Disney Imagineering in California. She is the co-founder of iCreatetoEducate, a program that seeks to “bridge the gap between the innovative research lab and K-12 classroom… to better access students’ creativity and conceptual understandings.”
We profiled Pickering back in 2004, when she was co-winner with fellow Tufts senior Lindsay Shanholt in Imagi-Nations, a national design competition for college students sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering.
Animation for Outreach and Education
Posted by Georgy Cohen in Video on October 8, 2010
The Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) has been developing teaching tools for students eager to learn about different aspects of engineering. One of it’s most popular pieces of software is used for creating stop-animation movies. The program is called SAM and allows users to create movies frame by frame using a webcam or imported pictures. Alex Chan (E ’13) and Tim Martin (E ’13) created a sample video that explains how an acoustic guitar works.
The SAM software was developed about 7 years ago when director of the CEEO Chris Roger’s eldest son asked if he could do a movie instead of a paper book report. Roger’s developed a prototype in LabView, and after careful user testing and refinements, the product is now available online. It has been presented throughout the world, and a gallery of student submitted animations is available to view.
How an Acoustic Guitar Works
Posted by Georgy Cohen in School of Engineering, Student Experience, Students, Video on October 6, 2010
Sophomores Alex Chan (E’13) and Tim Martin (E’13) put together a short and interesting video about how an acoustic guitar works.
Using Tufts SAM (stop-motion animation) technology, they used creative whiteboard animations to draw out how the strings vibrate, move down the bridge, and into the body of the guitar to amplify the sound. It’s a quick-look at the physics behind the music.