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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…
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Novel Engineering Challenges Wraps Up Its Third Challenge Cycle
by Susan Bitetti, Education Specialist Between April and December 1, 2017, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) designed, developed, and hosted NovelEngineeringChallenges.org, a series of three open-ended, engineering design challenges based on children’s literature and hosted on an online platform as part of a grant funded by the United Engineering Foundation. The…
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New Funding at the CEEO
The CEEO is thrilled to announce four new projects, funded by NSF, that launched this fall. These are new projects so we don’t have much to report yet but stay tuned for new tools, research and outreach tools. NSF STEM+C Designing Biomimetic Robots : This project will research the impact of an interdisciplinary bio-engineering-computational design…
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Summer Vacation and ENE 151
By Kimberly Fogarty, TEEP student, Academic Technology Specialist at the Park School in Brookline, MA As a student in the Teacher Engineering Education Certificate program, I have come to expect and enjoy relevant readings and projects as part of my courses. Never before was this more true than when my ENE151 class and an amazing Teacher-In-Residence…
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New faculty, staff and students at the CEEO
With the start of a new school year, the CEEO welcomes new faculty, staff and students. Check out who joined us this year!
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New STOMP Cohort
By Laura Fradin, Education Specialist With the start of the new semester, the CEEO welcomed STOMP Alum Laura Fradin as the new Education Specialist to work on multiple projects including LEGO Outreach, Novel Engineering, Design and Engineering Workshops, and various research projects. Laura also manages the STOMP program. As the STOMP Manager, Laura has been…
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Design and Engineering Workshops – Summer 2017
Over the summer the CEEO hosted 11 different workshops for children age five to eighteen. For younger students there were workshops that focused on exploring engineering while helping out characters from their favorite PBS shows and also learning the engineering design process through stories, songs and hands-on activities. There was a session of Girls Design…
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Summer Undergraduate Internships
Every summer, CEEO hires 30-40 Undergraduate Student Interns to work on various research, outreach initiatives, or operations support projects at the CEEO. This past summer we had 37 undergraduate students from Tufts and a few other Universities working at the CEEO on the projects listed below. IoT myRIO Projects TEEP: Teacher Engineering Education Program High…
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An Afternoon of Learning and Hacking
by Whitney Crooks, PhD Graduate in Mechanical Engineering On Friday, July 7th, the CEEO hosted an afternoon of learning and hacking with MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten (LLK), which shares a love of LEGO with the CEEO and has a similar mission: “develop new technologies that, in the spirit of the blocks and fingerpaint of kindergarten, expand…
