CEEO PROGRAM AND PROJECT OVERVIEW 2006
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Outreach
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Status
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Student Teacher Outreach Mentor Program (STOMP)
- Tufts
engineering students working with teachers in local K-12 classrooms
http://stompnetwork.org/tufts
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On-going
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Industry STOMP
- Helping
companies develop partnership with their local K-12 schools
http://stompnetwork.org/ni
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On-going
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STOMP for High Schools
- Working with high school
students as mentors for elementary and middle school students
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On-going
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Student Teacher Outreach Mentor Program (STOMP)
at MIT
- Supporting Massachusetts
Institute of Technology students working with local K-8 students
http://stompnetwork.org/mit
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On-going
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stompnetwork.org
- A
customized, interactive support site for all STOMP programs
http://stompnetwork.org
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On-going
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Tufts Engineering the Next Steps (TENS GK-12)
- Tufts graduate
fellows helping K-12 teachers infuse engineering into their lessons
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On-going
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Distance Learning
- Using cutting edge augmented
reality to create learning courses for teachers and students
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On-going
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Pre-College Engineering for Teachers (PCET)
- Professional
engineering development program for K-12 teachers
http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/pcet
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On-going
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National Academy of Engineering CASEE
Affiliation
- Affiliate of NAE's Center for
the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education
http://www.nae.edu/casee
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On-going
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Tool and Content
Development
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Status
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Robotics: Fundamentals of IT and Engineering
- Training and supporting
teachers for after school programs for Boston Public Schools
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On-going
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Robotics Academy for Tufts Undergraduate
Students
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Interdisciplinary teams of B.A. and B.S. students work on robotics projects
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On-going
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Stop-Action-Movies (SAM)
- Using animated movies to
support learning and understanding of science concepts
http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/sam
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On-going
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Underwater Robotics
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A context for students to learn science, math, technology, engineering
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On-going
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High School Physics
- Using LEGO bricks and ROBOLAB
software for teaching high school physics
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On-going
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Tissue Engineering Curriculum
- Bringing new disciplines of
engineering into high school classrooms
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On-going
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Musical Instrument Engineering Curriculum
- Bringing the science,
technology, and history of musical instruments into elementary school
classrooms
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On-going
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ceeo.tufts.edu
- Information on our outreach programs, tool development, teacher and student workshops, and educational research
http://ceeo.tufts.edu
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On-going
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legoengineering.com, version 2.0
- Continued development of
materials for LEGO engineering, in partnership with LEGO Educuation
http://www.legoengineering.com
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On-going
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ROBOLAB 2.9 Software for RCX and NXT
- Programming software for both
LEGO Mindstorms products, distributed by LEGO Education
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Completed
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legoengineering.com, version 1.0
- Partnership with LEGO
Education to provide resources for teaching with LEGO materials
http://www.legoengineering.com
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Completed
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Education Research
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Status
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For more
information about these research questions, please visit: http://www.tuftl.tufts.edu/research/educationresearch.shtm
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Ph.D.: What are the effects of engineering design activities on the
science understanding of high school students with different learning styles?
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On-going
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Ph.D.: How does making animations influence students' understanding of
math, science, and engineering?
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On-going
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Ph.D.: How do K-12 teachers develop efficacy beliefs in engineering
education, and how do these efficacy beliefs affect their teaching?
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On-going
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Ph.D.: How do children develop engineering competencies?
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On-going
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Ph.D.: How do middle school teachers develop their subject matter and
pedagogical content knowledge to teach engineering?
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On-going
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Ph.D.: How does STOMP affect engineering undergraduates’ attitudes,
confidence and understanding of the engineering design process?
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On-going
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Ph.D.: Do engineering design challenges improve science learning in
third through fifth grades?
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On-going
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Industry STOMP: How does volunteering in the K-12 classroom
affect engineering employees and their employers?
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On-going
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Project Inter Actions - Examining
parents-children interactions in a learning environment fostered by new
technologies.
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On-going
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Teaching Styles for Technological Success - Exploring differences in student achievement in a
project/based learning environment
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On-going
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Master's: How do boys and girls problem-solve
engineering tasks differently?
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Completed
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Master's: How does teaching style influence the
implementation of early childhood robotics curriculum?
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Completed
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