Service-learning engineering design activities at Western Michigan University to support K-12 STEM education
Service-learning engineering design activities at Western Michigan University to support K-12 STEM education
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西密歇根大学支持 K-12 STEM 教育的服务学习工程设计活动
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2005
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B. Aller
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A. Kline;E. Tsang;B. Aller
工程设计服务学习中心（EDCSL）是工程与应用科学学院（CEAS）和西密歇根大学（WMU）教育学院（COE）的共同努力。EDCSL的使命是提供教学设备和设备，实验和培训，用于K-12教室，以加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育。工程和教育专业的学生，大学教师和实践K-12教师共同设计，构建，分析和测试适合年龄的课堂材料，开发和完善实践和副教师的培训，并为工程和教育专业的学生提供机会，让他们看到他们的工作在校园边界以外的更大社区的影响。本文介绍了正在进行的EDCSL活动有关的几个学生工程项目，从CEAS高级顶点设计课程和新生介绍工程课程。这些项目包括一个教室的游戏室;一个设备说明阿基米德原理;一个设备来教和实验电磁学，这已经通过了几个发展迭代的工程设计过程中涉及学生从CEAS，COE，和K-12教师客户;和一个互动的风洞。在实践和职前K-12教师联合研讨会期间开发的材料进行了讨论，参与者与大学教师合作开发自己的STEM相关课程模块供课堂使用。继续努力建立和加强服务学习联盟与学术单位WMU，其他教育机构和社区团体，包括与亲善工业设计一个符合其业务和用户要求的集装箱项目，以及一个项目，提供课后丰富活动的基础上工程和技术的中学生。
The Engineering Design Center for Service-Learning (EDCSL) is a joint effort of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) and the College of Education (COE) at Western Michigan University (WMU). The mission of the EDCSL is to provide instructional devices and equipment, experiments, and training for use in K-12 classrooms to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Engineering and education students, university faculty, and practicing K-12 teachers work together to design, build, analyze, and test age-appropriate classroom materials, develop and refine training for practicing and preservice teachers, and provide opportunities for engineering and education students to see the impact of their work in the larger community beyond the campus boundaries. This paper describes the ongoing EDCSL activities related to several of the student-engineered projects from CEAS senior capstone design courses and a freshman introductory engineering course. These include projects for a classroom playhouse; an apparatus illustrating Archimedes principle; an apparatus to teach and experiment on electromagnetism, which has been through several developmental iterations in the engineering design process involving students from CEAS, COE, and K-12 teacher customers; and an interactive wind tunnel. Materials developed during a joint workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers are discussed, where the participants worked with university faculty to develop their own STEM-related curriculum modules for classroom usage. Efforts continue to build and enhance a service-learning consortium with academic units within WMU, other educational institutions, and community groups, including a project with Goodwill Industries to design a shipping container that meets its operational and user requirements, and a project to deliver after-school enrichment activities based on engineering and technology for middle-school students.