{"id":21516,"date":"2019-07-17T17:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=21516"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:21:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:21:21","slug":"thoughts-from-asee-engineering-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/thoughts-from-asee-engineering-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from ASEE: Engineering Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>While presenting research at the American Society for Engineering Education (<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PPT here (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.navalengineers.org\/Portals\/16\/FL_ASEE-SE061519.pptx?ver=2019-06-16-114515-773\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PPT here<\/em><\/a><em>), I met some fascinating people engaging in some high-quality work. These &#8220;Thoughts from ASEE&#8221; posts highlight that work.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Manhattan College, engineering or education undgrads can become Engineering Ambassadors. Sr. Mary Ann Jacobs and Dr. Zahra Shahbazi described how their undergrads support students in grades 6 through 12 explore engineering. They use engineering workshops and hands-on experiences so students were directly engaging in scaffolded problem-based activities. They found that  85% of students strongly agreed or agreed that the workshops helped them understand the work of engineers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Engineering Ambassador Network described this teaching as Right Messenger and Right Message, and we could not agree more. Students learn a lot from their peers and their near peers (students slightly older). Utilizing this fundamental connection to facilitate STEM growth seems like a win-win proposition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They found that 78% of students felt they better understood how to &#8220;think like an engineer&#8221; after completing these activities. We saw similar gains with the FLEET engineering simulator (82% were more interested in pursuing a STEM career).  Connecting students to engineering through hands-on challenges and near peer relationships is definitely a recipe for growing the STEM pipeline for years to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read their paper and see related work from their session at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asee.org\/public\/conferences\/140\/papers\/25784\/view\">https:\/\/www.asee.org\/public\/conferences\/140\/papers\/25784\/view<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While presenting research at the American Society for Engineering Education (PPT here), I met some fascinating people engaging in some high-quality work. These &#8220;Thoughts from ASEE&#8221; posts highlight that work. At Manhattan College, engineering or education undgrads can become Engineering Ambassadors. Sr. Mary Ann Jacobs and Dr. Zahra Shahbazi described how their undergrads support students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21529,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions\/21529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}