2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

NAME: (Resource Exchange)

Presented at Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 12: Resource Exchange

NAME features equity-oriented, research-based curricular resources for K-8 engineering. All NAME units engage youth in real-world engineering problems. Designed to encourage consideration of multiple perspectives and possible impacts of technologies, NAME fosters socially engaged engineering. Activities invite youth to draw upon their own ideas, communities, and cultures. Youth engage in authentic engineering practices as use an engineering design process to generate and iterate original solutions. Scientific concepts, computational thinking, and asset-based approaches strengthen design ideas and solutions. We will share curricula developed for Elementary, Middle School, and Out-of-School educational spaces. These each feature ten, 45-minute engineering lessons and curricular components that support these.

Authors

Dr. Christine M. Cunningham http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1922-7101 Pennsylvania State University [biography]

Dr. Christine M. Cunningham is a Professor of Practice in Education and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She aims make engineering, science, and computational thinking education more equitable, especially for populations that are underserved and underrepresented in STEM. Christine is the founding director of Youth Engineering Solutions (YES), which develops equity-oriented, research-based, and field-tested curricula and professional learning resources for preK-8 youth and their educators. Her research focuses on articulating frameworks for precollege engineering education.
Dr. Darshita N. Shah The Pennsylvania State University [biography]

Darshita (Dipa) Shah is the Curriculum Director for Youth Engineering Solutions at The Pennsylvania State University. Dipa has spent her career grappling with the challenge of how to best design motivating and engaging curriculum materials for students across the K-16 spectrum that can be practically implemented across the rich variety of our nation’s educational contexts. Most recently, Dipa was the senior associate director with MIT’s Teaching and Learning Lab where she facilitated workshops for campus educators on how to design curricular materials, implement evidence-informed pedagogies, and create welcoming classroom environments. Previously, Dipa was a manager for curriculum development for Engineering is Elementary and a lead science instructor with the Discovery Museum. Dipa received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a doctorate in chemical and biological engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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