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Sharon Bowers, NIA Educator-in-Residence Elana Slagle, Educational Consultant

Engineers as Educators. Sharon Bowers, NIA Educator-in-Residence Elana Slagle, Educational Consultant 48 th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting January 6, 2010. Tonight’s Goal. Know your audience. When it comes to STEM, I’m … A scientist A technologist An engineer

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Sharon Bowers, NIA Educator-in-Residence Elana Slagle, Educational Consultant

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  1. Engineers as Educators • Sharon Bowers, NIA Educator-in-Residence • Elana Slagle, Educational Consultant • 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting • January 6, 2010

  2. Tonight’s Goal

  3. Know your audience When it comes to STEM, I’m … • A scientist • A technologist • An engineer • A mathematician

  4. Why are you here?

  5. Why we hope you’re here …

  6. Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. Engineers and Scientists The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates … what has never existed before. Theodore VonKármán, c.a. 1957

  7. Black Boxes Scientific Method …

  8. Black Boxes Engineering Design Process …

  9. How do you describe what you do?

  10. Four Corners An engineer is most like … • Snickers • 3 Musketeers • Twix • Milky Way

  11. ``What you need to invent, is an imagination and a pile of junk.'' Thomas Edison

  12. The challenge: Use the materials provided to make a flying object that travels further than all others. You must be ready to test your flying object in 10 minutes.

  13. SCAMPER How have Oreo cookies changed over the years? Why have they changed? S C A M P E R Substitute Combine Adapt Magnify or minify Put to other use Eliminate Reverse or rearrange

  14. Re-design …you have 15 minutes before you need to demonstrate your new design.

  15. Snowball Battle 3 things I like 2 things I can teach 1 way to extend

  16. Team Challenge Using the materials provided, create a hot air balloon. The competition … Can your hot air balloon stay aloft longer than any other hot air balloons, initially powered by 30 seconds of hot air from a hair dryer?

  17. Team Challenge • Musts … • Use no more than 7 sheets of tissue paper • You will only have 30 seconds of hot air from a hair dryer • You have 30 minutes to complete your balloon. • Mays … • You may follow either set of directions or create your own design.

  18. Connecting to Standards • Position and motion of objects–NSES K-4 • Pushing/Pulling • Motions and forces –NSES 5-8 • Describing Motion • Newton’s Three Laws of Motion • Motions and forces –NSES 9-12 • Newton’s Three Laws of Motion • Gravity

  19. Connecting to Standards • Properties of objects and materials–NSES K-4 • Observable and measurable properties • Properties and changes of properties in matter–NSES 5-8 • Characteristic properties • Structure and properties of matter–NSES 9-12 • The physical properties of compounds reflect the nature of the interactions among its molecules and atoms.

  20. Connecting to Standards • Science and Technology –NSES K-4 • Abilities of technological design • Understanding about science and technology • Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans. • Science and Technology –NSES 5-8 and 9-12 • Abilities of technological design • Understanding about science and technology

  21. Resources

  22. Resources

  23. Resources When did you know …

  24. Humor

  25. More Humor

  26. Wordle Review

  27. Animoto Documentation

  28. ENGAGE EXPLORE EXPLAIN EXTEND ENJOY

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