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Going Deeper in Engineering K-12 Outreach: Assistive Technology Projects

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ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Publication Date

March 12, 2023

Start Date

March 12, 2023

End Date

March 14, 2023

Conference Session

K-12 and Outreach

Tagged Topics

Diversity and Professional Engineering Education Papers

Page Count

10

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45013

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https://peer.asee.org/45013

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51

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Georg Pingen Union University

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Georg Pingen is a Professor in the Engineering Department at Union University in Jackson, TN. He teaches courses across the Mechanical Engineering curriculum with a focus on thermal-fluid-sciences. His research interests are in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, topology optimization, and engineering education. Other scholarly efforts have focused around the development of a 3D Printing focused outreach program for 4th-12th grade students. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in aerospace engineering sciences.

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Betsy Pingen Union University

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Abstract

Elementary, middle, and high school engineering outreach has been a growing component of our engineering department over the last four years, offering multiple weeks of summer camps as well as individual Friday evening workshops involving several hundred students each year. During fall of 2022 we piloted a new program where teams of four middle/high school students and their engineering student mentors were paired with community members with disabilities and their therapists to design assistive technology solutions as part of the global Make:able challenge. This combination of a meaningful community project paired with the collaborative effort between healthcare professionals, engineering students, and 4th-12th students has enabled us to fully immerse the students in the engineering design process.

Pingen, G., & Pingen, B. (2023, March), Going Deeper in Engineering K-12 Outreach: Assistive Technology Projects Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45013

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