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Dr. E’s Challenges
by Barbara Bratzel Dr E’s challenges encourage children to design creative solutions to open-ended problems and share their creations with other children around the world. The two Dr. E’s websites, Dr. E’s MINDSTORMS Challenges and Dr. E’s WeDo Challenges, post a new challenge each month. Children work on their creations during the month, then share…
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Summer 2016 DEW Workshops
by Alex Pugnali, Education Specialist at the CEEO This summer the CEEO ran a variety of 3-5 day workshops for students in Kindergarten through 8th Grade. While workshops differed in age range and theme, they all engaged students in the Engineering Design Process in fun and hands-on ways. Below are some highlights from the workshops…
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Kingsley Montessori-Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Through the Power of a Child’s Imagination
We are always looking to hear about what is going on with our local teachers and ask that you send us what you have been working on in your classroom. Melanie Flores, a CEEO Newsletter subscriber, shares her work on Kindergarten Engineering Design Workshops, originally posted on the Kingsley Montessori School website on July 26,…
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Makerspaces at Queensland University of Technology
by Brian O’Connell, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering For the early part of 2016, I had the pleasure of being a visiting scholar at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. The original purpose of the trip was to assist them in setting up a makerspace. As is the way of things, plans made via email…
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2016 LEGO Learning Symposium and Tufts STEM Education Conference
by Lynne Ramsey, Staff Assistant at the CEOO In June, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach hosted its first LEGO Learning Symposium since 2011 and its first Tufts STEM Education Conference. Both were two day conferences with an overlapping day. They welcomed educators from around the world and showcased the exciting STEM Education projects…
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3D Printing and Calculus
by Fay Shaw, Postdoctoral Scholar The CEEO is exploring new ways to broaden making to departments outside of engineering. Jumbo’s Maker Studio teamed up with three Calculus 2 professors, Zac Faubion, James Adler and Sarah Bray to construct an innovative extra credit assignment. Students visited the Maker Studio to design artifacts generated by the math…
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A Systems Engineering Activity for Middle School Students using LEGO Robotics
by Aaron Johnson, Post Doctoral Research Associate In addition to my work on international difference in engineering education, I am leading a second research project supported by the CEEO Innovation Fund. I have been working with Paul Grogan, an Assistant Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, and Sara…
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CEEO Innovation Fund – RFID
by Brian O’Connell, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering With the support of the CEEO Innovation Fund, Ph.D. student Brian O’Connell set out to develop a way to understand better and utilize the makerspace resources at Tufts University. With the assistance of William Dolan, they combined a range of open source hardware and software components to…
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Investigating International Differences in Engineering Education
by Aaron Johnson, Post Doctorate Research Associate The impact of the CEEO reaches far beyond the boundaries of metropolitan Boston. The CEEO has hosted students, postdocs, faculty members, and visitors from Switzerland, Korea, Chile, Spain, and China, among others. Members of the CEEO have also traveled internationally to work with partners in countries such as…
