A Chemical Engineering Competition For Middle And High School Students (original) (raw)

Chemical Engineering for Middle School Girls (Resource Exchange)

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

and Outreach (www.ceeo.tufts.edu). Merredith received all four of her degrees from Tufts (B.A. English, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.A. Education, PhD in Engineering Education). Her research interests focus on how children engage in designing and constructing solutions to engineering design problems and evaluating students' design artifacts. Her outreach work focuses on creating resources for K-12 educators to support engineering education in the classroom. She is also the founder of STOMP (stompnetwork.org), LEGOengineering.com (legoengineering.com) and the Teacher Engineering Education Program (teep.tufts.edu).

Materials Science and Engineering Outreach Program

Journal of Materials Education, 2005

We report on a school science outreach program that we have carried out since 1999 under the National Science Foundation funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Columbia University. Under this program, we have made 34 visits to twenty New York City public high schools and middle schools and have reached over three thousand students. The demographic of the schools are around 81% historically underrepresented minorities (37% African Americans and 44% Hispanic Americans) and around 55% female. This report shows how a similar program can be set up in an urban area, which can directly address the vital shortage of youths going into science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) careers. Logistics and experiences of running the program are described. Lessons learned and certain important issues of the program are addressed for an easy adaptation in a new city.

Learning by doing: Chem-E-Car® motivating experience

Education for Chemical Engineers, 2019

Since 2013 a group of professors from the Chemical Engineering Department of Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) has implemented a teaching tool based on the concept of "learning by doing" that has been successfully used in the US to increase motivation of students. This tool consists of a competition, called Chem-E-Car ® , which helps to teach not only specific, but also transversal competences of the undergraduate students. They have to design, build and move a car controlled by a chemical reaction that it has to travel a specified distance while carrying a certain amount of water. The Chem-E-Car ® World Competition took place at the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, in 2017, and the students'team from UCM presented a Chem-E-Car ® moved by a battery based on an oxidation-reduction reaction and stopped by means of an iodine timer. It has been the first time that UCM has competed and the first time that the competition has taken place in Spain. Chem-E-Car ® has contributed to develop both the application of Chemical Engineering knowledge and professional skills. Chem-E-Car ® project has allowed the students to incorporate new abilities, such as team-working, leading, facing personal and professional troubles, interpreting and applying rules, project management and safety hazards.