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Overview
CEEO PROGRAM AND PROJECT OVERVIEW 2006

 

Outreach

Status

Student Teacher Outreach Mentor Program (STOMP)
- Tufts engineering students working with teachers in local K-12 classrooms

http://stompnetwork.org/tufts

On-going

Industry STOMP

-       Helping companies develop partnership with their local K-12 schools

http://stompnetwork.org/ni

On-going

STOMP for High Schools

- Working with high school students as mentors for elementary and middle school students

On-going

Student Teacher Outreach Mentor Program (STOMP) at MIT

- Supporting Massachusetts Institute of Technology students working with local K-8 students

http://stompnetwork.org/mit

On-going

stompnetwork.org
- A customized, interactive support site for all STOMP programs

http://stompnetwork.org

On-going

Tufts Engineering the Next Steps (TENS GK-12)
- Tufts graduate fellows helping K-12 teachers infuse engineering into their lessons

On-going

Distance Learning

- Using cutting edge augmented reality to create learning courses for teachers and students

On-going

Pre-College Engineering for Teachers (PCET)

-       Professional engineering development program for K-12 teachers

http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/pcet

On-going

National Academy of Engineering CASEE Affiliation

- Affiliate of NAE's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education

http://www.nae.edu/casee

On-going

 

 

 

Tool and Content Development

Status

Robotics: Fundamentals of IT and Engineering
- Training and supporting teachers for after school programs for Boston Public Schools

On-going

Robotics Academy for Tufts Undergraduate Students
- Interdisciplinary teams of B.A. and B.S. students work on robotics projects

On-going

Stop-Action-Movies (SAM)

- Using animated movies to support learning and  understanding of science concepts

http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/sam

On-going

Underwater Robotics
- A context for students to learn science, math, technology, engineering

On-going

High School Physics
- Using LEGO bricks and ROBOLAB software for teaching high school physics

On-going

Tissue Engineering Curriculum

- Bringing new disciplines of engineering into high school classrooms

On-going

Musical Instrument Engineering Curriculum

- Bringing the science, technology, and history of musical instruments into elementary school classrooms

On-going

ceeo.tufts.edu

- Information on our outreach programs, tool development, teacher and student workshops, and educational research

http://ceeo.tufts.edu

On-going

legoengineering.com, version 2.0

- Continued development of materials for LEGO engineering, in partnership with LEGO Educuation

http://www.legoengineering.com

On-going

ROBOLAB 2.9 Software for RCX and NXT

- Programming software for both LEGO Mindstorms products, distributed by LEGO Education

Completed

legoengineering.com, version 1.0

- Partnership with LEGO Education to provide resources for teaching with LEGO materials

http://www.legoengineering.com

Completed

 

 

 

Education Research 

Status

For more information about these research questions, please visit: http://www.tuftl.tufts.edu/research/educationresearch.shtm

 

Ph.D.: What are the effects of engineering design activities on the science understanding of high school students with different learning styles?

On-going

Ph.D.: How does making animations influence students' understanding of math, science, and engineering?

On-going

Ph.D.: How do K-12 teachers develop efficacy beliefs in engineering education, and how do these efficacy beliefs affect their teaching?

On-going

Ph.D.: How do children develop engineering competencies?

On-going

Ph.D.: How do middle school teachers develop their subject matter and pedagogical content knowledge to teach engineering?

On-going

Ph.D.: How does STOMP affect engineering undergraduates’ attitudes, confidence and understanding of the engineering design process?

On-going

Ph.D.: Do engineering design challenges improve science learning in third through fifth grades?

On-going

Industry STOMP: How does volunteering in the K-12 classroom affect engineering employees and their employers?

On-going

Project Inter Actions - Examining parents-children interactions in a learning environment fostered by new technologies.

On-going

Teaching Styles for Technological Success - Exploring differences in student achievement in a project/based learning environment

On-going

Master's: How do boys and girls problem-solve engineering tasks differently?

Completed

Master's: How does teaching style influence the implementation of early childhood robotics curriculum?

Completed

 

 

 

Educational Services for Teachers, Parents, and Children 

Status

LEGO Engineering Conferences

- Giving educators the opportunity to extend their knowledge and to build communities

http://ceeo.tufts.edu/content/view/40/57/

On-going

CEEO Engineering Education Seminar Series
- Public seminars in an effort to increase collaboration between multiple organizations

On-going

Teacher Institutes and Educator Workshops
- Professional development courses and support for K-12 education and informal education

http://ceeo.tufts.edu/content/view/42/49/

On-going

Programs for Kids

- Saturday and summer workshops using LEGO Mindstorms and ROBOLAB

http://ceeo.tufts.edu/content/view/42/49/

On-going

LEGO Engineering Training for Industry STOMP
- Workshops for National Instruments and their D-TECH partnership

http://ceeo.tufts.edu/content/view/29/36/

On-going

LEGO Engineering Knowledgebase
- Interactive online database of frequently-asked-questions on legoengineering.com

http://www.legoengineering.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=77

On-going

LEGO Engineering Activities and Learning Sequences Database
- Online lesson plans and instructional sequences on legoengineering.com

http://www.legoengineering.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=57

On-going

LEGO Engineering Conferences

- Hosting regional and national conferences that gathered educators to learn and share

http://ceeo.tufts.edu/content/view/40/57/

On-going

 

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