Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119952
B. Kennedy, Author Buikema, Jacquelyn K. S. Nagel
Bio-inspired design, Biomimicry or Biomimetics is a broad methodology that encourages learning from nature to generate innovative, impactful, and responsible solutions to humankind's problems. As an integrative approach it can be used to teach students across the STEaM disciplines problem solving, design, innovation, and sustainability concepts, as well as strengthen their ability to develop solutions to cross-disciplinary problems. In the Spring 2014 semester we co-taught a course entitled Integrating Biology and Design for Sustainable Innovation at Virginia Tech. The course promoted true interdisciplinary collaboration by integrating teams with backgrounds in life sciences, engineering and design to solve a challenge through a semester long design project. In this paper we discuss our experience teaching the interdisciplinary course, as well as the framework for the course and best practices such that others can implement a similar course at their University. Above all, courses like these are significant in that they take a step towards accelerating sustainable design innovation, an area that has received considerable focus and effort yet whose progress for tangible outcomes has been insufficient.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119918
Ralph C. Tillinghast, Edward A. Petersen, S. Rizzuto, S. Dabiri, Maria C. Gonzalez
With the growing need to inspire young minds in STEM areas, Science and Engineering professionals along with their employers are working to identify the best possible method to accomplish just this. Currently, many approaches are being utilized, such as summer camp programs, in school visits, large STEM events and student mentoring programs. This paper takes a focused look at how placing Science and Engineering professionals in the classroom may be the most robust and cost effective approach for STEM outreach. This paper outlines methods, approaches, benefits found, results and lessons learned from in-school pilot programs related to this approach. Overall, this paper is intended to aid educators, Science and Engineering Professionals and their employers to broaden STEM and STEaM education.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-01DOI: 10.1109/isecon.2015.7119914
Lisbeth Uribe, Amy Eguchi
RoboTeam is an after-school competitive robotics club for grades 4 through 8 at the School at Columbia. Each year, 20-35 students compete in RoboCupJunior competitions at the local, regional and, if we qualify, international level. As part of preparing for the RoboCupJunior Dance competitions, each student maintained a journal of his or her work and ideas, constructed robots with sensors and created elaborate programs designed to control the robots. They collaborated with teammates when creating original music, choreography, sets and costumes for both the robotic and human performers. The students are intrigued and engaged by the challenges of building and programming robots to make real what they have imagined. They also delight in the artistic aspect of preparing for robotic dance competitions.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-01DOI: 10.1109/isecon.2015.7119908
Lisbeth Uribe, Amy Eguchi
RoboTeam is an after-school competitive robotics club for grades 4 through 8 at the School at Columbia. Each year, 20-35 students compete in RoboCupJunior competitions at the local, regional and, if we qualify, international level. As part of preparing for the RoboCupJunior Rescue competitions, each student maintained a journal of his or her work and ideas, constructed robots with sensors and created elaborate programs designed to control the robots. The students program their small compact robots to search for and rescue "victims" and avoid obstacles within a simulated disaster field that has two floors connect by a ramp. As robots successfully accomplish specific tasks within a discrete time frame, the teams are awarded points.
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