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Tufts Shows Up Big at the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition
Tufts researchers had an impressive presence at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference, contributing a surprisingly large number of papers across many divisions. Below is the full list, complete with authors and links to explore the depth and breadth of their work. CEEO Affiliated Faculty, Post-Docs, and Students Student Perceptions of Learning and Engagement Using an…
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Tufts CEEO-Acera Teacher Innovation Fellowship Conference Planning Committee
On November 14th 2025, six educators from Medford, Somerville, Everett, and Woburn Public School Districts met at the CEEO to help plan the Eye on STEM: Focus on Engineering for All in K-8 Conference that will take place in March 2026. The conference, which will be held in collaboration with the Acera School, is made…
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Student Spotlight: Kat Allen
Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I grew up in Broomfield, Colorado with my two (twin, younger) sisters, my parents, and my grandmother. My two main interests as a kid were reading, music (mostly singing), and making things. When I was 6, I really wanted to be an…
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New Faces for Fall 2025
David Willis Visiting Assistant Professor David Willis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has enjoyed teaching a variety of courses since starting at UML in 2008, including: Intro. to Mechanical Engineering, Introduction to Aerospace, Fluid Mechanics, Math Methods for MEs, Capstone Design,…
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ORBIT Classroom Pilot Testing
By Elissa Milto This summer, the CEEO’s Community Outreach Fellows spent time in a local classroom leading computational thinking activities with middle school students. The activities were part of the Opportunities for Robotics, Building, and Inclusive Technology (ORBIT) research project, a two-year project funded by the NSF that began in September 2023. The program was…
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Novel Engineering at the Benjamin Banneker Charter School
By Elissa Milto In Spring 2025, two Tufts undergraduate students worked at the Benjamin Banneker School’s afterschool program as part of the CEEO Outreach Learning Fellows (OLF) Program. The afterschool program was led by Jennifer Gordon, the school’s librarian, and Dwear Carre, a classroom teacher. The program was part of the school’s year-long project examining…
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From Jeju Science High School in South Korea to Eaton Hall for Robotics and Innovation
By Elissa Milto At the end of August, Meredith Portsmore (pictured), CEEO Director, led a day-long, hands-on engineering workshop for thirty middle and high school students from Korea. The students traveled to the United States as part of a delegation from Jeju Science High School on Jeju Island in South Korea. This is the second…
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Exploring Storm Drain Effectiveness with 5th Graders
By Elissa Milto In June, CEEO Community Outreach interns worked with two 5th-grade science classes at the West Somerville Neighborhood School, Somerville Public Schools, taught by Lorin Federico, to facilitate an engineering activity developed as part of the Design Talks (DT) and Community Tech Press (CTP) research projects led by Chelsea Andrews, Kristen Wendell, and…
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Small Sparks, Big Futures: Teaching STEM in Juvenile Detention
Becky McDowell Chief Executive Officer STEM in Action Educational Consulting, LLC Tufts Teacher Engineering Education Program Alum A few weeks ago, I came across a powerful post by a local school board member and passionate advocate for youth in Sioux Falls, SD. She highlighted the incredible work being done by volunteers at the Minnehaha County…
