The CEEO is thrilled to announce four new projects, funded by NSF, that launched this fall. These are new projects so we don’t have much to report yet but stay tuned for new tools, research and outreach tools. NSF STEM+C…
by Elissa Milto, CEEO Director of Outreach Dr. Daniel Hannon received a CEEO Innovation Grant from the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach to run a Maker workshop in order to help develop social awareness in adolescents with autism spectrum…
by Amanda Strawhacker, Doctoral Student in Child Study and Human Development and Miki Vizner, Master's Student in Child Study and Human Development Makerspaces are an exciting space to foster creative learning through building artifacts. These 21st century engineering workshops are a…
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 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 Aaron Johnson, Post Doctoral Research Associate In addition to my work on international difference in engineering education, I am leading a second research project supported by the CEEO Innovation Fund. I have been working with Paul Grogan, an Assistant…
by Aaron Johnson, Post Doctorate Research Associate The impact of the CEEO reaches far beyond the boundaries of metropolitan Boston. The CEEO has hosted students, postdocs, faculty members, and visitors from Switzerland, Korea, Chile, Spain, and China, among others. Members…
Kristen Wendell, CEEO alumna and Assistant Professor of Education at UMASS Boston, recently co-authored the book Engaging Young Engineers: Teaching Problem-Solving Skills through STEM. Focused on early childhood (birth to age 5), the book offers theoretical and practical resources for…
April 21, 2015 by Daniel Wise When Malden High School principal Dana Brown invited Brian Gravel, Tufts’ Director of Elementary Education and CEEO alumnus, and CEEO faculty to see what could be done to reinvent his school’s large and semi-abandoned…