Board 20: Engagement in Practice: First-year Students as “Engineer for a Day” for Middle School Students

Abstract

Dr. Carlson worked as a water resources engineer for 10 years prior to earning her doctorate, contributing to improved water management in communities within the United States, Middle East, and Singapore. She has been a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) since 2002. Dr. Carlson's research interests are broadly characterized as 'how civil engineering impacts public health', and include storm water management, modeling environment/engineering/social interfaces, combined sewer overflows, and improved communication and education of engineering concepts. Dr. Anne Pfitzner Gatling, Merrimack College I taught for 10 years as an elementary teacher in Alaska. I won the Presidential Award for Science Teaching, was an Einstein Fellow in Senator Lieberman's office where I worked on the teacher quality portion of the Higher Education Reauthorization. Now as a professor, I have been the co-director of the STEM Education program for Early Childhood and Elementary Majors for 8 years.

Can we have it all?

“…Significant scientific contributions went into the establishment of the Classification, exemplified by scholarly faculty research related to CE projects. These projects address areas of community-identified priorities such as: financial literacy, jail education, math & science education, service-learning in Chemistry, community-engagement education, and food insecurity (Aiello & Duffy-Comparone, 2019;Bregoli et al, 2022;Carlson et al 2019;Dovi et al, 2021;Duffy-Comparone & Aiello, 2020;Falk & Vine, 2017;Falk & Willer, 2022;LaFlamme, 2021;Silva & Sendall, 2019;Silva et al, 2022;Wagner, 2019;Mason, 2020;Zabar, 2022).…”