Posted on May 21st, 2021 by Mary Lord
Join educators from Samueli Academy, a project-based-learning charter school in Santa Ana, Calif., for a free ASEE webinar on increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion through pre-college STEM. Wedesday, May 26, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Eastern.
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Tags: ASEE Diversity Equity and Inclusion webinar series, ASEE P-12 Educator Series, diversity, engineering education, STEM education
Posted on December 29th, 2020 by Mary Lord
Join the University of St. Thomas’s Playful Learning Lab on January 29 and 30 for PLAYfest 2021, a two-day virtual festival of free, hands-on STEAM professional development and speakers from around the world.
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Tags: AnnMarie Thomas, engineering education, free online professional development, hands-on learning, PLAYfest 2021, Playful Learning Lab, Resources for Teachers, St. Thomas University, STEM education, STEM professional development, Teacher Training
Posted on March 5th, 2020 by Mary Lord
A pair of air disasters exposes engineering mistakes and catalyzes real-world lessons for future professionals.
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Tags: Aerospace Engineering, air disaster, ASEE Prism magazine, Boeing 737 MAX, engineering education, engineering ethics
Posted on August 2nd, 2019 by Mary Lord
How do you build the world’s fastest human-powered submarine? A team of CalPoly engineering students sought inspiration in nature – with the goal of besting the competition at the 2019 international submarine race.
Last fall, a team of California Polytechnic Institute engineering students took up the challenge and sought inspiration from nature.
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Tags: Aerospace Engineering, bioinspired design, Biomimicry, Cal Poly, Carderock Naval Warfare Center International Submarine Races, engineering education, human-powered submarine, Mechanical engineering, STEM education
Posted on July 19th, 2018 by Mary Lord
Engineering, technology, and dual-enrollment programs – along with their students, many of them from underrepresented groups in STEM – could be among the biggest beneficiaries of a major education bill that Congress approved on July 25.
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Tags: career academy, career awareness, CTE, dual enrollment, Education Policy, engineering education, New York State CTE, Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, STEM education, Technology Education, Vocational Education
Posted on July 9th, 2017 by Mary Lord
As a high school sophomore, Tim Balz refurbished his first motorized wheelchair and gave it to a fellow student. Today, Freedom Chairs, the nonprofit he founded and continues to run as a mechanical engineering student at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has distributed 130 wheelchairs worldwide while he has won awards as a wheelchair innovator and entrepreneur.
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Tags: engineering education, entrepreneurship, Freedom Chairs, humanitarian engineering, Robotics, Rose-Hulman, Tim Balz, wheelchair
Posted on February 22nd, 2016 by Mary Lord
African-American males represent a sliver of engineering enrollment. More could succeed if schools understood what it takes to beat the odds. In its summer 2014 cover story, ASEE’s Prism magazine explores the challenges and experiences of black engineering students, including their lessons for higher education.
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Tags: African American scientists and engineers, ASEE, black male engineering students, engineering education, Feature Story, Prism magazine, Public Policy, STEM education
Posted on January 22nd, 2016 by Mary Lord
Whether you’re seeking fun, immediately useful ways to enrich your STEM, literacy, or art classes or an opportunity to network and learn alongside STEM teachers and engineering faculty from across the country, the American Society for Engineering Education’s annual K-12 Workshop is the place to be.
WHERE: New Orleans Convention Center, Louisiana
WHEN: June 25, 2016
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
New this year: A curriculum exchange and half-day Sunday workshop on integrating STEM through making!
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Tags: ASEE K-12 Workshop, Curriculum, engineering education, Events, integrated STEM, Lesson Plans, making, professional development for teachers, Research on Learning, Resources for Teachers, STEM education, Teacher Training
Posted on March 20th, 2015 by Mary Lord
They clean floors, deliver drinks, fetch like puppies, even tell jokes. But can personal robots improve engineering education?
James McLurkin, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice University, certainly thinks so. And no wonder. The pioneer of swarming robotics has seen his bagel-size ’bot transform an introductory engineering course into an unabashedly fun way to convey circuits, mechanics, and other core concepts.
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Tags: ASEE Prism, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Curriculum, engineering education, James McLurkin, programming, r-one, Rice University, Robotics, robots in education, STEM education, swarmbots, VEX
