Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I’m from Jeddah, a major city in Saudi Arabia where I grew up and spent most of my life. I’m the middle child among four siblings—three brothers…
Biomimicry as an Authentic Anchor: Giving Teachers the Tools to Adapt an Interdisciplinary Middle School Curriculum Funding: NSF - DRK12 (This project is funded through TERC and CEEO is a subaward.) Project Dates: 8/1/23-7/31/26 Award Amount: $312,990 Project personnel: Kristen…
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) graduate students and faculty attended the 2023 Annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference this June in Baltimore, MD. We were excited to have a combined fourteen presentations/accepted papers, resource exchanges,…
The NSF-funded Role Models in Elementary Engineering Education project has spent the past five years studying the interactions between undergraduate engineering students (outreach educators) and elementary students engaged in engineering design tasks. The project’s recent study, published in the Journal…
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to share one of our research projects, “Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Smart Engineering and English Language Arts in Upper Elementary Education” which is a “Research on Emerging Technologies for…
Recent graduate Sara Willner-Giwerc's doctoral research focused on supporting open-ended engineering activities in the classroom. Her work focused on a worksheet format, called “Placemats”, which provides scaffolded prompts that support solution diversity. Focused on robotics, the placemats share building and…
At Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Isabella Stupios is a Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering (ME) who is currently working on a study that looks at characterizing Tufts’ Mechanical Engineering Department’s Learning Assistant (LA) program under Lave…
The LEGO Foundation Tech and Play initiative connects organizations around the world that are finding ways to make the introduction of technology in classrooms more playful. Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is collaborating with organizations in partner…
By Hyejin Im, Master’s Student in Human Factors Engineering In April 2021, Hyejin Im, graduate student of Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), successfully defended her master thesis, Draw2Code: Low-cost tangible programming for young children to create AR…
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) are excited to share 4 new research initiatives that have been funded recently. These research initiatives continue our mission for improving education through engineering. They support the research efforts of our faculty,…