By Susan Bitetti, Staff Member With the increase of engineering design activities in K-12 classrooms comes a new set of challenges to educators and policy-makers. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of incorporating design tasks into formal education curriculum; however,…
by Kristen Wendell, McDonnell Family Professor in Engineering Education I’m pleased to have this chance to tell you about the Portable Maker Workshop, a new tool for classroom engineering design from Pre-K to grade 8. At the Center for Engineering Education…
by Dr. Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor, CEEO During the interim break between the Fall 2016 semester and the start of the Spring 2017 semester, the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) at Tufts University hosted its first ever…
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…
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…