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The National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project Impact on STEM Education in K-12 Schools

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2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Location

Morgantown, West Virginia

Publication Date

March 24, 2023

Start Date

March 24, 2023

End Date

March 25, 2023

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44933

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https://strategy.asee.org/44933

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205

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Ammar Alzarrad Marshall University

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Dr. Alzarrad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Marshall University. He graduated with dual bachelor’s degrees in Civil Engineering and Business Administration from the University of South Alabama. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Alabama. Before assuming his current position, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction at Bradley University. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Alzarrad was a Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) manager at an engineering design firm in Chicago, where he managed multi-million projects (i.e., Wrigley Field restoration and expansion project). Dr. Alzarrad is a PMP©, CPEM©, and the Director of The Engineering Management Graduate Program at Marshall University.

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Sudipta chowdhury Marshall University

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Sudipta Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in Marshall University. His area of research includes Critical Infrastructure Resilience, Disaster Restoration Planning, Supply Chain and Logistics, and formal and informal STEM Education. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and multiple conference proceedings. He serves as a reviewer of multiple journals such as OR spectrum, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Cities and Society, Applied Soft Computing, Mathematics, and IEEE systems.

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Fernanda Delduque

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Abstract

The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) implementation can and should be indispensable in students' daily lives, with educational and practical applications. The National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project is a nonprofit association focusing on mentoring K-12 teachers on sustainable energy education through STEM topics and activities. The NEED Project offers a curriculum and mentorship to professors on how to use creativity to teach K-12 students and invent new ways of thinking and practicing sustainability addressing STEM topics. Students can effectively make changes that directly impact their community, building solid values of respect between men and nature from an early age. The NEED Project launched in West Virginia (WV) in late 2020, successfully mentoring many teachers around the state. To express the importance of the NEED Project to the teachers and students in WV, there is a need to study the effects of the NEED Project approach in developing the pedagogical content knowledge of teachers and students. This research aims to use surveys to collect data from teachers around WV to discuss the effectiveness of The NEED Project on K-12 schools and the importance of implementing STEM topics in K-12 schools. Through surveys, a qualitative study is employed by interviewing WV teachers who have attended the mentorship and applied the NEED curriculum in the classroom. The survey contains demographic, challenges, and development perception questions regarding the NEED Project curriculum and practices. The survey results analysis will shed light on the effectiveness of the NEED Project for teachers and students. The research results will help to improve the NEED curriculum and mentorship, mainly bringing new ways to understand STEM topics and sustainability education in the state of WV.

Alzarrad, A., & chowdhury, S., & Delduque, F. (2023, March), The National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project Impact on STEM Education in K-12 Schools Paper presented at 2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--44933

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