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Robert J. Fisher – Chemical Engineering Education, 2025
Strategies are proposed that promote use of an Integrated Applied Mathematics (IAM) approach to enhance teaching of advanced problem-solving and analysis skills. Three scenarios of 1-dimensional transport processes are presented that support using Error Function analyses when considering short time/small penetration depths in finite geometries.…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, Problem Solving, Skill Development
Feng, Xiaoqi; Ylirisku, Salu; Kähkönen, Elina; Niemi, Hannele; Hölttä-Otto, Katja – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Engineering education has become increasingly multidisciplinary in order to prepare future experts to transcend disciplinary boundaries and to co-construct solutions to solve grand challenges. However, faculty members' perspectives and experiences have been largely ignored in the literature. To understand and support faculty members, the present…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Elissa Milto; Chelsea Andrews; Merredith Portsmore; Christopher Wright – Eye on Education, 2025
"Introducing Engineering to K-8 Students" will provide you with the tools you need to incorporate engineering design into your classroom. Rather than prescribing a specific curriculum to follow, this book will help you engage your students with hands-on, open-ended engineering design problems that can be easily integrated into your…
Descriptors: Engineering, Design, Middle School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Jeffrey A. Anderson; Bryan B. Nguyen – PRIMUS, 2024
Many students who enroll in a first course in linear algebra major in STEM disciplines other than mathematics. Teachers who serve such students may find it difficult to provide authentic problems from these broader areas that ignite students' interest in linear algebra. In this paper, we highlight an interdisciplinary learning activity that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Graphs, Majors (Students)
Wesley A. Stroud – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
This paper highlights the design process and implementation for an "all majors" undergraduate course that allows students a chance to reconnect with the natural world. During this course students explore a wide range of biological and physical science based topics that seek to highlight human intervention and our impacts on the planet.…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Honors Curriculum, Majors (Students)
Holub, Jordan; Kruse, Jerrid; Menke, Lucas – Science and Children, 2020
Engineering is increasingly expected in elementary classrooms now that the "Next Generation Science Standards" have explicitly identified engineering disciplinary core ideas as well as engineering practices. To incorporate engineering into their elementary classrooms, the authors used building blocks (i.e., LEGOS) to help students begin…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Elementary School Students, Science Education, Standards
Lesseig, Kristin; Slavit, David; Nelson, Tamara Holmlund – Middle School Journal, 2017
Given the current emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and its key attributes, middle school is an optimal time to implement STEM-based curricula. However, the interdisciplinary and open-ended nature of STEM projects often makes implementation difficult. In this article, we describe a professional development…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach
Tomlinson, Joel; Johnson, Etahe; Chesser, Cole; Moore, Jonathan – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2020
The automated water filtration design challenge integrates computer programming and basic electronics concepts through the SIMILAR systems engineering design process. The SIMILAR systems design process is to state the problem, investigate alternatives, model the system, integrate the system, launch the system, assess performance, and reevaluate…
Descriptors: Automation, Water, Water Quality, Design
Robertson, Laura; Dunlap, Eric; Nivens, Ryan; Barnett, Kelli – Science and Children, 2019
This 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) learning cycle integrating science and mathematics challenges and engages second-grade students in designing sail cars to solve an engineering problem. Students create and use line plots to organize their data to evaluate the strengths and weakness of their design solutions. Three…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary School Students
Whitworth, Brooke A.; Wheeler, Lindsay B. – Science Teacher, 2017
With the widespread adoption of the "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS Lead States 2013), science teachers now aspire to integrate engineering into science instruction, as the standards suggest, yet many do not know how. The first steps are to define engineering and identify tasks that incorporate engineering, which can be…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Chemistry
Moseley, Ainsley; White, Stephanie; Knowles, Mike – Primary Science, 2017
As part of the celebration of Manchester being the European City of Science 2016, schools across the City were invited to take part in a Citizen-Engineering project, which set out a quest to make a recycled robot orchestra. It is a unique project, which is an experiment itself--to bring people together to create, collaborate and care for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Robotics, Recycling, Musical Instruments
Pike, Lisa; Rentsch, Jeremy – Science and Children, 2017
This math activity focuses on experimental design while connecting math with life science. It is important that the science and engineering practices (SEPs) are not taught as a separate "unit" but integrated within the curriculum wherever possible. The focus is on experimental design to teach animal behavior. Students predict and test…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Ehsan, Hoda; Rehmat, Abeera P.; Cardella, Monica E. – Science and Children, 2019
Computational thinking can provide a basis for problem solving, for making evidence-based decisions, and for learning to code or create programs. Therefore, it is critical that all students across the K-12 continuum--including students in the early grades--have opportunities to begin developing problem solving and computational thinking skills.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Computer Science Education, Thinking Skills
Cook, Kristin; Bush, Sarah; Cox, Richard – Science and Children, 2017
Teaching STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) in elementary school could be even more promising than teaching STEM. This is due to its ability to cross multiple subject areas and its appeal to multiple types of learners. Intentional integration of the arts in science and engineering lessons has the potential to more deeply…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary School Students
Delaney, Ashley; Jurgenson, Kari – Science and Children, 2019
The connections the "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") creates between science content and practices to literacy and mathematics are especially beneficial at the elementary level. In this article, the authors present a series of lessons a second-grade teacher taught within a thematic unit that integrated standards…
Descriptors: Standards, Science Instruction, Engineering Education, Literacy