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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 […]
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Jumbo’s Maker Studio Spring Pilot
by Fay Shaw, Postdoctoral Scholar and Amy Fleischer, Curator of Collaborations from the Occupational Therapy Department In Spring 2016, the CEEO joined together with Occupational Therapy (OT) and Human Factors (HF) to pilot a new location for Jumbo’s Maker Studio, the HF lab in the new Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC) at 574 Boston […]
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Use of a Documentation Tool at Imagination Station in New Zealand
by Susan Bitetti Through my work at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, for the month of January 2016, I was given the amazing opportunity to do volunteer work and research at Imagination Station, a LEGO-centric, not-for-profit education and play center in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since the major earthquake that struck in 2011, major […]
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International Workshops
by Barbara Bratzel The end of January and beginning of February was a lively time in the CEEO workshop room: we hosted two international groups of students. The last week of January, seven students from China, ages nine to eleven, plus two of their teachers, spent four days with us. The students were winners of […]
