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Research Abroad in New Zealand
by Sara Willner-Giwerc, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach’s (CEEO) doctoral student Sara Willner-Giwerc spent May 2019 in New Zealand as a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland. She spent several weeks helping teachers and students with LEGO robotics and also running a LEGO Education conference with Professor Chris Rogers.…
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CEEO Operations Team wins Distinction Award
by Merredith Portsmore, Director of CEEO We are very excited at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) Operations Team has won a 2019 Tufts University TEAM Distinction Award. The Tufts Distinction Award is an award that recognizes the exceptional accomplishments of staff and faculty at Tufts and affirm Tufts shared values as a…
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2019 ASEE Conference
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) graduate students and faculty attended the 2019 Annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference this June in Tampa, FL. We were excited to have eleven conference papers accepted this year. Congratulations to Karen Miel for winning the Best Paper Award in the Pre-College Division. Below are…
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Student Engineering Notebooks
By Libby Albanese, Thomas George, Elizabeth Moison, and Leah Sugrue, CEEO STOMPers Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) had another successful and impactful year with it’s Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP). We are excited to share with you one of the curriculum’s that STOMP Fellows developed and implemented this past Fall ’18/Spring…
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Making a Makerspace at the Maranyundo Girls School in Nyamata, Rwanda
by Sara Willner-Giwerc, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering In the spring of 2018, I (Sara Willner-Giwerc) took a course called The Global Educator from Professor Linda Beardsley. The course was focused on the education system of post-colonial Africa and the impact the colonization had in the educational system across the continent. Specifically, we studied the…
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CEEO Spring 2019 Dissertations and Theses
Milan Dahal, Matthew Mueller, and Nicole Batrouny Three graduate students working at Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) on engineering education research will be graduating this May 2019. Matt Mueller has been working with us since he was a freshman at Tufts. He took Merredith Portsmore’s freshman robotics course, started working for our…
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CEEO Seniors Q&A for 2019 Graduating Seniors
This spring, we graduated 10 amazing STOMP seniors. These students have been working with the CEEO since they were freshman and sophomores, and it has been incredibly rewarding to watch them grow into great STOMP teachers and leaders. Their hard work and dedication to STOMP has helped provide countless engineering experiences for young students in…
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Kristen Wendell awarded the 2019 School of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award
Kristen Wendell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, is the recipient of the School of Engineering’s Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Award, as well as the Recognition of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award. We are also excited to announce that Kristen Wendell has received tenure! Each…
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Research Study – Looking for Teacher Participants
Please pass this study information on to colleagues who may be interested in participating. Researchers at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach are seeking K-12 teachers and educators who are at least 18 years old and live in North America to participate in a research study. The purpose of this study is…
