Pre-college Electrical Engineering Outreach: The Design of a Home Security System (Evaluation)

Abstract

in 2002 where she is currently a Professor. Her research interests are in the field of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on the theory of Monte Carlo methods and its application to different disciplines including biomedicine, sensor networks, and finance. In addition, she has focused on STEM education and has initiated several successful programs with the purpose of engaging students at all academic stages in the excitement of engineering and research, with particular focus on underrepresented groups. She has authored and coauthored two book chapters and more than 150 journal papers and refereed conference articles.Bugallo is a senior member of the IEEE, serves on several of its technical committees and is the current chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Committee. She has been part of the technical committee and has organized various professional conferences and workshops. She has received several prestigious research and education awards including the award for Best Paper in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2007 as coauthor of a paper entitled "Particle Filtering," the IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2009), for development and application of computational methods for sequential signal processing, the IEEE Athanasios Papoulis Award (2011), for innovative educational outreach that has inspired high school students and college level women to study engineering, the Stony Brook University Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) Latino Faculty Recognition Award (2009), and the Chair of Excellence by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Banco de Santander (Spain) (2012).

NGSS-based teacher professional development to implement engineering practices in STEM instruction

“…Consistent with NGSS, the workshop activities were framed for identifying problems, applying design thinking through a scientific approach, and defining limitations and criteria for technological solutions (NGSS Lead States 2013). Teachers built several devices, including a home security system (Krayem et al 2018), a night light (Stuart et al 2021), and a biofuel cell, and they optimized solutions through the cost analysis associated with their designs (NGSS Lead States 2013). They modified the functionality of their devices and tested them before taking them back to their classrooms.…”

University-Designed Middle School Science Experiences Aligned with NGSS

“…Students had the choice of optimizing their design and choosing the desired time and frequency of their alarms by selecting the values of their resistors and capacitors. Also, students assembled an add-on memory part made of transistors to memorize any alarm activation state [21].…”

“…The activities were piloted for middle and high school students and were also used for professional development for K-12 STEM teachers prior to the summer camp [18] [19]. The activities were deemed appropriate by the science teachers for both formal classroom learning and informal camps and out-of-school experiences [11][20] [21]. The camp focused on integrating the classroom science curriculum with real-world applications.…”

Cognitive Load, Transfer, and Instructional Decision-Making in an Informal Middle School STEM Integration Program

“…This activity scaffolded skills learned previously and introduced soldering to construct a home security system. The design included two simple main electrical components: a photo transistor and a buzzer soldered to a prefabricated circuit board [39]. Students were introduced to each component and learned its function within the subsystem of the device.…”