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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…
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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…
