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“Making” in the White Mountains: Meet Our Partners at WMSI
by Susan Bitetti One of the incredible aspects about working at the CEEO is the opportunity to collaborate with some really wonderful and unique educational spaces. White Mountain Science Institute (WMSI) in Bethlehem, New Hampshire led by CEEO fellow Bill Church, is one such space. WMSI is not a typical afterschool setting; while the staff […]
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1234Cast
by Sam Woolf, Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering With the support of a CEEO Innovation Grant, we built and tested 1234Cast, a weather forecasting portal that caters to young children. Weather is all around us, and we interact with it on a daily basis, as it affects many parts of our lives. However, teaching weather-related concepts […]
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University Level Courses
First-Year Intro-to-Engineering Simple Robotics by Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor, CEEO Once again, in Fall 2016, Professor Danahy taught the Tufts School of Engineering’s introduction to engineering course Simple Robotics to first-year engineering students. Leveraging the LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics hardware and the LabVIEW Graphical Programming interface, this course has pre-major engineering students work in teams […]
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Novel Engineering Challenges-Update
By Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach, CEEO April 1st was the launch of Novel Engineering Challenge- a series of three online Novel Engineering design challenges. The first of the three challenges is based on the book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming. From now until May 19th, elementary-aged children will have the opportunity to submit […]
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The Cardboard Boat Project
By Sarah Matheny, Alumni of the Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP) Sarah Matheny, Science and Design Thinking Teacher from St. George’s Independent School, Germantown, TN, shares the work done by a 4th grade class called “The Cardboard Boat Project” Our fourth graders study explorers in the Fall and this year the teachers thought it would […]
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The Development and Implementation of a Tool for Encouraging the Practice of Student-Driven Documentation in Engineering Design
By Susan Bitetti, Staff Member With the increase of engineering design activities in K-12 classrooms comes a new set of challenges to educators and policy-makers. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of incorporating design tasks into formal education curriculum; however, a gap in research still remains surrounding how additional tools can best support students and […]
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CEEO Annual report 2015-2016
Do you want more information about CEEO? Check out our CEEO Annual Report that covers 2015 and 2016!
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Portable Maker Workshop
by Kristen Wendell, McDonnell Family Professor in Engineering Education I’m pleased to have this chance to tell you about the Portable Maker Workshop, a new tool for classroom engineering design from Pre-K to grade 8. At the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, we are always looking for more ways to support learners in creating functional, […]
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Novel Engineering Challenges
by Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach Building on Novel Engineering, the CEEO will be offering a series of three online Novel Engineering challenges. In January, we began work on a grant funded by the United Engineering Foundation that will support work on Novel Engineering Challenges. The goal of Novel Engineering Challenges is to broaden interest and […]
