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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…
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Robotics Education at Tufts University (Fall 2015)
by Dr. Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor at the CEEO The Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is closely involved in the running of two robotics classes within the School of Engineering at Tufts. Dr. Ethan Danahy (Research Assistant Professor at the CEEO, with secondary appointment in the Computer Science department) teaches the first-year…
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Novel Engineering at the Linden STEAM Academy in Malden, MA
by Bridget McCaffrey Last year, the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach began a relationship with the Malden Public Schools, going in to their Linden STEAM Academy, a K–8 innovation school that places more of a focus on “hands-on”, project-based learning. Starting in January of 2015, members of the CEEO began collaborating with the teachers,…
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STOMP Classroom Case Study: Engineering Superheroes
By Laura Fradin, CEEO STOMP Fellow 5th grade classroom at Norcross Elementary School in Arlington, Massachusetts One of the biggest obstacles for STOMPers is creating a cohesive unit throughout the semester. Many STOMPers choose to do an “Introduction to Engineering” unit that introduces civil, mechanical, chemical, aerospace, environmental, and other types of engineering into a…
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STOMP Classroom Case Study: Robotics and the Environment
by Laura Coughlin, CEEO STOMP Fellow On Wednesday afternoons, the NXT robotics elective at the International School of Boston (ISB) holds its two-hour class, a class filled with 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students eager to learn the mysteries of programming. This past semester my STOMP partner and I had the pleasure of teaching in…
