The TEAK Project: Students as Teachers

工程-其他（59）该项目是使工程专业的学生在顶点课程设计和建立创造性的工具，教学工程概念的K-12学生。 在多学科团队的工作，学生正在创建被带入K-12教室的旅行工程活动包（TEAKs），他们实施可用于TEAK后续和独立课堂活动的互动网站。 通过这些努力，每年大约有30-40名工程专业的学生正在提高他们对工程基础知识的理解。 几个工程专业的学生作为合作学生在TEAK项目中工作，在这个角色中，他们前往地区学校教授工程学，同时开发和加强TEAK产品。 评估工作正在使用访谈和调查，包括几个既定的工具，以检查对工程专业学生的基本面的理解和高级设计项目，多学科高级设计方案的质量的影响，和TEAK推广计划。研究人员正在通过网站传播他们的想法和结果，在工程教育会议上的演讲，教师研讨会，并在几个已建立的数据库和数字图书馆的帖子。 更广泛的影响包括对K-12学生的广泛外联努力以及通过几个机制传播材料。

Engineering - Other (59)The project is enabling engineering students in a capstone course to design and build creative tools for teaching engineering concepts to K-12 students. Working on multidisciplinary teams, students are creating Traveling Engineering Activity Kits (TEAKs) that are being brought into K-12 classrooms, and they implementing interactive websites that can be used for TEAK follow-up and stand-alone classroom activities. Through these efforts, approximately 30-40 engineering students per year are enhancing their own understanding of engineering fundamentals. Several engineering students are working as coop students on the TEAK project and in this role they are traveling to area schools to teach engineering while developing and enhancing the TEAK offerings. The evaluation efforts is using interviews and surveys, including several established tools, to examine the impact on the engineering students' understanding of fundamentals and on the quality of the senior design projects, the multidisciplinary senior design program, and the TEAK outreach program. The investigators are disseminating their ideas and results through websites, presentation at engineering education conferences, a faculty workshop, and postings on several established databases and digital libraries. Broader impacts include an extensive outreach effort to K-12 students and the dissemination of the material through several mechanisms.