Introducing data mining techniques and software engineering to high school science students

This paper describes high school STEM lessons created by three undergraduate mentors. The mentors participated in a classroom outreach program called Computer Science Investigations (CSI: Cincinnati) as part of the Mentoring for Connections to Computing effort funded by the National Science Foundation's Broadening Participation in Computing program. The CSI program performs pre-college outreach with a team of undergraduates in computing-related majors who deliver an original lesson with hands-on activities and interact with high school students in their classroom. The mentors leverage their industrial and academic experiences to create the lessons and act as role models for college and professional success. The evaluation of the CSI activities includes pre-and post-surveys of the high school students' interest in computing as well as reflections from the mentors' journals.

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“…Lessons developed by students, faculty, and teachers are discussed in the literature [6][7][8][9][10].…”

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Incorporating industrial co-op experience in high school classroom outreach

Davis

Maltbie

Myers

et al. 2009

2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference

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“…A related effort at the University of Cincinnati, NSF Project STEP [5], places engineering graduate fellows into high school STEM classrooms for intensive interaction with students and teachers. Lessons developed by students, faculty, and teachers are discussed in the literature [7][8][9][10][11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Just Desserts: Mechanical Engineering Meets Computing Outreach

Davis¹

2010 Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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This paper describes high school STEM lessons created by three undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students. The students participated in a classroom outreach program called Computer Science Investigations (CSI: Cincinnati) as part of the Mentoring for Connections to Computing effort funded by the National Science Foundation's Broadening Participation in Computing program. The CSI program performs computing-themed pre-college outreach with a team of undergraduates who deliver original lessons with hands-on activities and interact with high school students in their classroom. This paper describes three lessons: (1) pipe design layout based on CAD drawings for an industrial bakery kitchen, (2) computer vision systems using optical illusions and cupcake decorating, and (3) manufacturing of plastic pellets using the creation of pixel cookies as a hands-on classroom activity. The undergraduate mentors leverage their industrial and academic experiences to create the lessons and act as role models for college and professional success. Evaluation of the activities includes a mapping to academic content standards, student interest surveys, and mentors' reflections on their experiences.

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“…This is being done to scale up analysis capacity [2] of graduating students, towards Industry 4.0 jobs. Data mining is the identification of interesting structure in data [3,4] towards knowledge discovery or insight. Unlike some approaches [5,6], the objective here is not to create a new course on data-mining towards industry 4.0 but to distribute these concepts across many courses by providing examples that fit within the context of mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum.…”

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Narendranath

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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sity (Michigan Tech). He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering mechanics in 2013. Subsequently, he worked as a visiting assistant professor at Michigan Tech from 2013-2014 and then as an Engineer at the French Nuclear Commission (CEA) in France until 2015. His research interests are mathematical modeling of fluid physics. His pedagogical interests are development of mathematically and computationally oriented courses in mechanical engineering.

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Introducing data mining techniques and software engineering to high school science students

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Incorporating industrial co-op experience in high school classroom outreach

Incorporating industrial co-op experience in high school classroom outreach

Just Desserts: Mechanical Engineering Meets Computing Outreach

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