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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 […]
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Recreating an In-Person Summer Internship Program Virtually
By Dipeshwor Man Shrestha, Masters Student in STEM Education Every year the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) employs 25-30 college and high-school student interns to work on engineering, design, and research projects. COVID-19 forced us to redesign our in-person internship program, finding ways to simulate activities like tinkering, design reviews, brainstorming and […]
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Dr. E’s Challenges: Summer 2020
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is pleased to announce that after taking a year hiatus, Dr. E’s Challenges has returned with two new and exciting challenges. Hearing from teachers, parents, and other educators a need for ideas and inspiration during this time of at-home and remote learning, we developed two LEGO-based challenges […]
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Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) and Dr. Ethan Danahy on “Flipped Classrooms”
Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor at Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), was asked to speak by Tufts Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) to discuss his use of “flipped classrooms” and remote teaching in a recent interview with Arduino Education. However, the COVID-19 pandemic caused Professor Danahy to shift to […]
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2020 CEEO Award Winners
The Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) congratulates two of its members, Sara Wilner-Giwerc and Kristen Wendell, for their achievements. They are both the recipients of awards from Tufts University including the 2020 Tufts University School of Engineering Award for Outstanding Graduate Contributor to Engineering Education and the Henry and Madeline Fischer Award. […]
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2020 CEEO Graduates
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) congratulates our 2020 graduates, Amanda Strawhacker, Hernán Gallegos, Dipeshwor Man Shrestha, and Fatima Rahman on their achievements. Amanda Strawhacker Amanda Strawhacker received her Ph.D. in Child Study and Human Development. Her dissertation was on Biodesign Education in Early Childhood: A Design-Research Study of the Tangible CRISPEE Technology […]
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The Symbiotics System: Designing an Internet of Things Platform for Elementary School Students
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to share Sara Willner-Giwerc, Chris Rogers, and Kristen Wendell of Tufts University just had a paper published in the International Journal of Design for Learning, “The Symbiotics System: Designing an Internet of Things Platform for Elementary School Students”. The Internet of Things (IoT) is any […]
