Conference & Journal Paper
Traveling Engineering Activity Kits – Energy and the Environment
Elizabeth DeBartolo, Margaret Bailey, Melissa Zaczek, Timothy Schriefer, Patrick Gage Kelley, Mallika Ramaswamy, Nicholas Ryczko
Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2007
June 2007
Abstract
A 2005-06 Multidisciplinary Senior Design team created a series of classroom activities designed to teach middle school students about engineering topics related to energy and the environment. This traveling engineering activity kit (TEAK) project consists of five kits, each based on a different energy-related theme: Heat Transfer, Electrical Energy, Wind and Water, Solar Power, and Chemical Energy. Each kit contains an Academic Activity to teach a background concept, a Hands-On Activity to allow students to apply the concepts learned, and a Take-Home Activity that can be done independently at home. The design team also developed instruction manuals suitable for non-engineers, lesson plans, handouts, and post-activity quizzes to assess participants' learning. To date, the kits have been used by over 100 6th graders as well as dozens more students participating in on- and off-campus outreach programs. This paper describes how and why undergraduate engineering students were involved in designing the TEAK educational tool, including a detailed list of customer needs and design specifications that were defined during their design process. Discussions are also included on the basic TEAK structure, kit descriptions, and assessment results to date.
- engineering
- education
- activity
- workshop
Cite this paper
@inproceedings{debartolo2007traveling,
title = {Traveling Engineering Activity Kits – Energy and the Environment},
author = {DeBartolo, Elizabeth and Bailey, Margaret and Zaczek, Melissa and Schriefer, Timothy and Kelley, Patrick Gage and Ramaswamy, Mallika and Ryczko, Nicholas},
year = {2007},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2007},
url = {https://pgk.io/papers/2007-traveling-engineering-activity-kits-energy-and-the/},
}