Improving Engineering Education Outreach in Rural Counties through Engineering Risk Analysis

Boynton, Matthew Arnold; Hossain, Faisal

doi:10.1061/(asce)ei.1943-5541.0000026

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“…Others have attempted to use watersheds as an integration scale outside hydrology (Salvage et al, 2004), or tested how the use of physical model can reduce misperceptions of hydrological processes (see references in Rodhe, 2012). In addition to the increasing societal recognition of water-related issues and threats, there are opportunities to enhance hydrology education by linking it to popular concepts such as sustainability or millennium development goals, e.g., access to clean water (Mihelcic et al, 2008) or risk in regard to natural hazards (Boynton and Hossain, 2010). Despite these opportunities, there are continued calls for necessary change to hydrology education (Clifford, 2002;Howe, 2008;Ledley, 2008;Manduca et al, 2008;Wagener et al, 2010;Thompson et al, 2011), to satisfy the demands of a strong job market for hydrologists (van Vuren et al, 2009;Zimmerman, 2009;Milano, 2010).…”

Section: Hydrology Education Assessmentmentioning

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It takes a community to raise a hydrologist: the Modular Curriculum for Hydrologic Advancement (MOCHA)

Wagener

Kelleher

Weiler

et al. 2012

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Protection from hydrological extremes and the sustainable supply of hydrological services in the presence of changing climate and lifestyles as well as rocketing population pressure in many parts of the world are the defining societal challenges for hydrology in the 21st century. A review of the existing literature shows that these challenges and their educational consequences for hydrology were foreseeable and were even predicted by some. However, surveys of the current educational basis for hydrology also clearly demonstrate that hydrology education is not yet ready to prepare students to deal with these challenges. We present our own vision of the necessary evolution of hydrology education, which we implemented in the Modular Curriculum for Hydrologic Advancement (MOCHA). The MOCHA project is directly aimed at developing a community-driven basis for hydrology education. In this paper we combine literature review, community survey, discussion and assessment to provide a holistic baseline for the future of hydrology education. The ultimate objective of our educational initiative is to enable educators to train a new generation of "renaissance hydrologists," who can master the holistic nature of our field and of the problems we encounter.

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Section: Hydrology Education Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

It takes a community to raise a hydrologist: the Modular Curriculum for Hydrologic Advancement (MOCHA)

Wagener

Kelleher

Weiler

et al. 2012

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…Level-appropriate outreach activities have been shown to be beneficial for all levels of Page 26.1040.2 students, and tend to encourage STEM related careers 15 . Outreach activities have a significantly positive impact on student perception of STEM fields and are effective to boost awareness of STEM fields 16 . The purpose of outreach events in general is to spark interest and increase knowledge of the participating students.…”

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Investigating the Impact of an Outreach Activity on High School Students’ Attitude Towards STEM Disciplines

Huang¹,

Degen²,

Ellingsen³

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings

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“…This is likely because Indiana is one of the largest PLTW providers 23 and Indiana has been the home of PLTW headquarters since 2011. Two studies explored PLTW-affiliated participants within Iowa 24,25 and North Carolina 20,26 , and other states included within these 31 articles included Connecticut, 27 Minnesota, 28 Missouri, 29 South Carolina, 30 Tennessee, 19 and Utah. 31 Many authors identified their participants by region, whereas in several more articles the participants' location was not identified whatsoever.…”

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“…24,42,43 Conversely, literature which focused on perceptions mostly involved participants' perceptions of the importance or the impact of PLTW, such as parents' views regarding the impact of PLTW on their children's abilities 34 or teachers' perceptions of barriers to student learning of science or math. 22 Literature pertaining to pathways generally focused on factors that influenced students to pursue STEM degrees or persist in college, 19,23,25,44 although one of these articles focused on what motivated teachers to pursue technology education degrees. 45 The final three articles pertaining to PLTW Implementation varied widely: one was a curriculum analysis of PLTW and the alignment of PLTW curricula with national and Minnesota state standards, 28 a second was on lessons learned from effective PLTW partnership teams, 37 and a third was on the extent of PLTW service-learning integration.…”

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“…For example, in a few articles, PLTW students acted as a comparison or control group. [19][20][21] Likewise, some manuscripts (primarily the dissertations) focused on several preengineering curricula. 18,22 Nonetheless, each of the articles that we retained included specific research, data collection, and data analysis approaches, along with results and suggestions for improving PLTW.…”

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The Efficacy of Project Lead the Way: A Systematic Literature Review

Hess

Sorge

Feldhaus

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is a non-profit organization offering project-based STEM education curricula for K-12 students. As of 2015, PLTW was by far the largest pre-engineering program implemented throughout the United States with a presence in over 6500 schools. Since its conception in 1997, PLTW rapidly expanded and today covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The PLTW Engineering curriculum offers a sequence of courses that students may take over the course of high school, and many university programs allow students who complete this sequence the opportunity to earn college credit. The PLTW Gateway curriculum targets students in Grades 6-8 and the PLTW Launch curriculum targets K-5 students. See the PLTW website for current program titles. They now simply use PLTW Engineering, PLTW Gateway, and PLTW Launch.This study investigates the efficacy of PLTW efforts through a systematic literature review process. Specifically, we explored the following research questions:• After an initial data collection and literature reduction processes, we synthesized 31 articles that collected and analyzed empirical data related to PLTW. Our gathered literature included 16 journal articles, 11 dissertations, and 4 theses. Using an emergent coding process, we found that primary strengths of PLTW curricula include facilitating student interest in STEM (namely, engineering), motivating students to pursue STEM degrees, and providing teachers with effective professional development opportunities and support. However, weaknesses of PLTW include minimal evidence supporting PLTW participation as improving students' mathematics and science abilities, scheduling and space issues, and moderate financial costs for schools to participate in PLTW. Altogether, the literature collected varied widely and, as a result, each of these strengths and weaknesses requires further investigation. This study concludes with an identification of gaps in PLTW literature that scholars might utilize to focus future PLTWrelated investigations, which will in turn improve future PLTW and PLTW-related interventions.

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Improving Engineering Education Outreach in Rural Counties through Engineering Risk Analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

It takes a community to raise a hydrologist: the Modular Curriculum for Hydrologic Advancement (MOCHA)

It takes a community to raise a hydrologist: the Modular Curriculum for Hydrologic Advancement (MOCHA)

Investigating the Impact of an Outreach Activity on High School Students’ Attitude Towards STEM Disciplines

The Efficacy of Project Lead the Way: A Systematic Literature Review

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