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Milan Dahal with Smart Motor

Student Spotlight: Milan Dahal

Graduate student Milan Dahal details his journey from a small village in Nepal to Tufts where he has been developing low-cost Smart Motors, while earning a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I am from Inaruwa, a small town in eastern Nepal. Our father’s job took us to different places every other year or…

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First-Year Engineering Course Blends Community-Based Engineering and Game Design

Over the Fall 2023 semester, Professor Greses Pérez and PhD student G. R. Marvez co-taught a first-year engineering class that blended community-based engineering practices and the art of game design. During the class, students learned about iterative design processes, game design, and how to work with community members on engineering projects. For the community-focused aspect of this class, students partnered with 3rd and 4th-grade students…

Meet the New CEEO Members

CEEO Welcomes New Post-Docs and Graduate Student

Robert Hayes Robert Hayes has returned to CEEO as a postdoctoral scholar. Now a triple Jumbo, Rob received his BSME from Tufts in 2013 and his PhD in STEM Education in 2023. He supports partner communities in developing and implementing curricula that center students as agents in STEM. Outside of work, he loves playing board games with friends and going on long bike rides. Kaylla…

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Tufts CEEO Secures Five New Grants in 2023

Biomimicry as an Authentic Anchor: Giving Teachers the Tools to Adapt an Interdisciplinary Middle School Curriculum Funding: NSF – DRK12 (This project is funded through TERC and CEEO is a subaward.) Project Dates: 8/1/23-7/31/26 Award Amount: $312,990 Project personnel: Kristen Wendell, PI, Ethan Danahy, CoPI Project description: This study will examine teacher choices and learning within a professional development and curricular program that is focused…

2023 ASEE Conference

Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) graduate students and faculty attended the 2023 Annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference this June in Baltimore, MD. We were excited to have a combined fourteen presentations/accepted papers, resource exchanges, panel sessions, and posters this year. Below are the Tufts CEEO participants at ASEE for 2023. Papers Andrews, C. J., & Rahman, F. (2023, June),…

Characterizing engineering outreach educators’ talk moves: An exploratory framework

The NSF-funded Role Models in Elementary Engineering Education  project has spent the past five years studying the interactions between undergraduate engineering students (outreach educators) and elementary students engaged in engineering design tasks. The project’s recent study, published in the Journal of Engineering Education, focuses on the talk moves employed by outreach educators when working with small groups of elementary students. Talk moves encompass questions, comments,…

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Joyful Learning At The White House Easter Egg Roll

Reposted from LEGO Education Community LEGO® Education and Tufts Center for Engineering and Education Outreach (CEEO) participated in the 2023 White House Easter Egg Roll to bring joyful learning experiences to kids.LEGO Education, along with Tufts CEEO, participated in the annual White House Easter “EGGucation” Roll, held on the South Lawn on Monday, April 10. Presented by the US First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, an educator…

Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning

Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to share one of our research projects, “Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Smart Engineering and English Language Arts in Upper Elementary Education” which is a “Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning” (RETTL) program funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). In this project, the goal is to develop a smart device to help upper…

Tufts CEEO visits Tokyo, Japan

In February 2023, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) summer undergraduate interns Soham Gaggenapally and Alan Deutsch visited Tokyo, Japan along with graduate student Yume Menghe Xu. The Japanese company Mobile Internet Technology Co., LTD. that makes Mind Render was happy with the work done by Soham and Alan. Mind Render and another Japanese company that does STEAM education, Viling. Inc, invited Soham,…