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Simple Robotics (EN1) Final Projects
In the fall 2020 semester, Dr. Ethan Danahy, Research Associate Professor from Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), taught a section of the introductory engineering course for Tufts first-year School of Engineering students called Simple Robotics. Throughout the semester, students used the LEGO Education SPIKE Prime robotics kits to complete open-ended engineering and […]
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Engineering Design Lab and Tufts CEEO
by Katie Castor, Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering In summer 2020, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) collaborated with Tufts University College to teach a virtual engineering workshop, Engineering Design Lab (EDL) which is a Pre-College program for High School students focused on exploring the fundamentals of robotics and computation. EDL was taught by […]
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Tufts CEEO and LEGO Build the Change
Sara Willner-Giwerc, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) PhD Candidate, shares her work with the LEGO Build Challenge. Please read below to hear from Sara about her experience. One of the cool projects I’ve worked on this year is the LEGO Build the Change experience. Build the Change explores important topics related to […]
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2020 Collaboration with PTC
by Matthew Mueller, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University Supported by gifts from PTC, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) hired a team of undergraduate interns to do research on 3D modeling environments in learning contexts over the summer. They worked on generating curricular supports for students learning Onshape, creating digital twins of LEGO […]
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CEEO Haunted House 2020
This year the 3rd Annual Nolop Makerspace Haunted House took place virtually on Friday, October 30, 2020. The event was sponsored by the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Nolop Makerspace, and the School of Engineering (SOE), and featured projects from first-year engineering students in Professor Ethan Danahy’s Simple Robotics class. While the […]
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This holiday season, give the gift of engineering education.
This winter Tufts CEEO is offering two January Design and Engineering Workshops: LEGO Robotics for Beginners and Advanced LEGO Robotics. Participants will be responsible for purchasing their own LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Kit. LEGO Robotics For Beginners 1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2Grades 2-63:30-5:00PM EST $90 This workshop is specifically designed for kids who are new to using […]
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CEEO Hires and Promotions
Promotions at Tufts CEEO Merredith Portsmore, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) Director, has been promoted to Research Associate Professor. Dr. Merredith Portsmore earned both a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1998. Merredith has also received her M.A. in Education from Tufts University in 1999. She […]
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Integrating 21st-Century Skills in Online Sessions
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) graduate student, Dipeshwor Shrestha, collaborated with the Karkhana Community of Teachers to run a session for engineering education in Nepal, conducted via Zoom, that over 70 teachers in Nepal attended. Their task was to create a mechanism to transport momos from a village to a cave separated […]
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Designing Robotics Instructions for Solution Diversity
By Sara Willner-Giwerc, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) are excited to share a project that CEEO Ph.D. Candidate, Sara Willner-Giwerc, has been working on to give students and teachers access to documents called, “Placemats” that encourage open-ended robotics challenges. Read below as Sara goes into more detail […]
