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CEEO Graduating Students and Award Winners
CEEO Graduates 2017-2018 Jessica Swenson, PhD Mechanical EngineeringKerrianne Marino, MS Human Factors EngineeringSam Woolf, MS Mechanical Engineering CEEO Award Winners 2017-2018 Honos Civicus Society for Outstanding Civic Engagement(Left to Right) Erica Albert, Dana Levin, Kerrianne Marino, Jessica Swenson, Nadia Hallaj The Honos Civicus Society recognizes graduating students with exceptional commitment to community service and civic engagement. To […]
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Tufts School of Engineering Students in STOMP
The Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to engage 62 Tufts students from a variety of academic disciplines with STOMP this year. STOMP partners pairs of Tufts University students with school teachers in the greater Boston area, Medford, Somerville, Arlington, Everett, Malden, and Boston, to create and implement engineering curricula in […]
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Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach to Host the LEGO Education Symposium and Tufts STEM Education Conference
On June 5th to 7th, 2018, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) will be hosting the LEGO Education Symposium in conjunction with the Tufts STEM Education Conference at Tufts University. The CEEO is a leading innovator in K-12 engineering education and is excited for the opportunity to bring together passionate educators and researchers […]
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TEEP Cohort 2
by Magee Shalhoub, Program Administrator The Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP), teep.tufts.edu, is for practicing elementary, middle, or high school teachers who are seeking to change or expand their approach through the integration of engaging hands-on engineering principles in their coursework. The program is a flexible, affordable, and designed to fit a busy teacher’s lifestyle. […]
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Post Campaign Update
by Laura Fradin, Education Specialist This past fall the Student Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) ran a crowdfunding campaign to help support the work it does in local elementary and middle schools. Our goal was to raise $5000 to support lesson development and implementation, and materials purchases. We raised $5,170 from 75 donors. These donors were […]
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Billund Builds Nature 2018: Teacher and Administrator STEM Workshop
by Susan Bitetti, Education Specialist This past November/early December, Tufts CEEO hosted Billund Builds workshop, a week long study tour for 36 educators and administrators from Billund, Denmark in collaboration with the Capital of Children. The CEEO faced an exciting challenge of addressing the needs and challenges of not just educators but also those of […]
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LEGO WeDo Afterschool Enrichment
By Sarah Matheny, TEEP Teacher Graduate Sarah Matheny, Science and Design Thinking Teacher from St. George’s Independent School, Germantown, TN, shares her work with kindergarten and first grade students in an afterschool enrichment project with WeDo 2.0. I was a student in Tufts University’s first Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP). While working through the program I […]
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Robotic Toy Testing
by Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science and at the CEEO In Fall 2017, Prof. Ethan Danahy once again taught his first-year introduction to engineering course “Simple Robotics” to 28 of the Tufts University freshmen engineering students. After a sequence of shorter, week-long projects (ranging from designing Robotic Animals and Astronaut Tools to creating […]
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ConnecTions in the Making 3-year NSF Research Project Launches Summer 2017
By Chelsea Andrews, Post Doctoral Research Associate ConnecTions in the Making: Elementary Students, Teachers, and STEM Professionals Integrating Science and Engineering to Design Community Solutions is one of the CEEO’s newest research projects, funded by the NSF’s ITEST program. Led by PI’s Kristen Wendell (Tufts) and Tej Dalvi (UMass Boston), the overall goal of this […]
