LinkEngineering - Sneha Tharayil

PhD student

Added 4/28/2016 3:48 AM

Mr. Huffman,
Thank you so much for  the resource and reference! I had heard of the 5E model previously, but I hadn't known it was further modified into the 6E model to include engineering! That's wonderful, and I will certainly read and learn more about it! Again, thank you!

Sneha Tharayil
PhD student
University of Texas at Austin

Thanks for the Shout-out and we're excited about our project!

Added 4/21/2016 4:44 PM

Hi Maribeth, Thank you for the recognition in your blog post! Indeed, my membership on LE has proven to be rather fruitful for me. In fact, I just had a Skype conference with Jennifer Love this morning about our unit and I'm excited about its development. It's now morphed into what I think is a pretty neat Service Learning project-based unit. We have hopes to publish it on TeachEngineering.org ... Read More

Hi Maribeth, Thank you for the recognition in your blog post! Indeed, my membership on LE has proven to be rather fruitful for me. In fact, I just had a Skype conference with Jennifer Love this morning about our unit and I'm excited about its development. It's now morphed into what I think is a pretty neat Service Learning project-based unit. We have hopes to publish it on TeachEngineering.org (as well as on LE) of course. We also have some research hopes for it in the future and would love to partner with any LE schools on here :)! I'm currently working on writing up the lessons for the unit, which has also doubly functioning as my semester project for one of my graduate classes (Research in Engineering Education) this semester! Once the semester is over and I have a little more time on my hands, I plan on writing a more thorough blog update on our project for the LE community to learn more about. Thanks again! Proud to be an LE member! Read Less

Sneha Tharayil

PhD student

University of Texas at Austin

Added 4/21/2016 12:32 AM

Mr. Soltys,
Thank you so much for the recommendation! Jennifer and I certainly do plan on submitting our unit on TeachEngineering.org. I will be sure to reach out to you with any questions as we get closer to submission time.
Sincerely,
Sneha

Sneha Tharayil

PhD student

University of Texas at Austin

Added 1/11/2016 9:20 PM

Dr. Strobel, thank you for your response! Yes, I've heard about Purdue's EPICS program. I learned of it when I was applying to Purdue's Engineering Education program. The EPICS model is very impressive and I hope they develop this program further!

Sneha Tharayil

PhD student

University of Texas at Austin

Added 1/11/2016 9:14 PM

Hi Mr. Huffman, thank you so much for the resource! That's fantastic! I love the themes/goals the units work towards. Does your organization have any other plans to develop any other similar units/projects, aside from the ones currently in development?

Sneha Tharayil

PhD student

University of Texas at Austin

Added 11/18/2015 2:28 PM

This is more of a sub-question than an answer...how can we edit our questions/posts or delete them (so we don't have replicas in case we accidentally posted in the wrong place)?

Sneha Tharayil
PhD student
University of Texas at Austin

Response to Alexander Major II

Added 9/13/2015 10:25 PM

Hi Alexander! Thank you for your comment and feedback! I appreciate you taking the time to look at my post! I wholly agree with you that this isn't a fully developed lesson and in many ways, a very nascent idea for a design project. Truthfully, this project idea sort of just popped into my head as I was teaching my students about forces and motion, specifically about friction, and I ... Read More

Hi Alexander! Thank you for your comment and feedback! I appreciate you taking the time to look at my post! I wholly agree with you that this isn't a fully developed lesson and in many ways, a very nascent idea for a design project. Truthfully, this project idea sort of just popped into my head as I was teaching my students about forces and motion, specifically about friction, and I thought I'd give it a shot and see how they did with it and what learning would evolve from it (i.e. it all evolved very organically at the time). In my post-reflection of the experience, my students did generally quite well with it and it demonstrated their levels of understanding of the basic principles of friction so it was relatively informative as a formative assessment that way. However, that said, I definitely recognized that this lesson/project needed some further development (and largely the reason I decided to share it with the LinkEngineering community--to get some feedback and further direction as to how improve upon it) and could include so many more deeper concepts. As you mentioned, I've certainly considered incorporating the aspect of materials science engineering into the project because it lends itself very naturally to it, so I'm presently exploring that idea right now. I also agree with you in incorporating a way for students to test their designs. I'm not sure if you've seen it already, but Jennifer Love, a former performance/biomechanical engineer with Reebok, and Associate Academic Specialist at Northeastern reached out to me and we've been collaborating on developing this project into a more solid and structured unit (thanks LinkEngineering!). So stay tuned! Again, thank you so much for your feedback and suggestions, those specific concepts are all very pertinent aspects we'll be considering as we work to develop this into a full-fledged unit. Read Less
Sneha Tharayil
PhD student
University of Texas at Austin

Resources

Added 8/19/2015 1:23 PM

Hi Kate, I saw Jennifer Love's question/comment to your post about Rosie Revere Engineer. She mentioned Dr. Tamara Moore's work with PictureSTEM. Dr. Moore is a professor at Purdue University in their Engineering Education program. When I was looking at and applying for PhD programs in STEM/Engineering education, I had a chance to visit Purdue's program and talk with some of their ... Read More

Hi Kate, I saw Jennifer Love's question/comment to your post about Rosie Revere Engineer. She mentioned Dr. Tamara Moore's work with PictureSTEM. Dr. Moore is a professor at Purdue University in their Engineering Education program. When I was looking at and applying for PhD programs in STEM/Engineering education, I had a chance to visit Purdue's program and talk with some of their professors, including Dr. Moore, and tour their facilities. I can tell you they are doing some really great stuff and research there for precollege Engineering. Here's the direct link to Dr. Moore's PictureSTEM project: http://picturestem.org/. You can access some units on there too. Purdue also has this INSPIRE institute which focuses on precollege engineering education research. You can check it out here: http://www.inspire-purdue.org/ I know that one of their other assistant professors, Dr. Morgan Hynes, also developed this Novel Engineering curriculum which has such a fantastic underlying principle. The essence of it being that children read novels, and identify an implicit engineering problem in the plot, and then engage in the engineering design process to solve that problem. It is such a beautiful way to combine literacy and engineering. Here's the project link: http://www.novelengineering.org/ Hope those links help! Read Less

Sneha Tharayil

PhD student

University of Texas at Austin

Added 8/19/2015 12:57 PM

Jennifer,
Thank you so much for reaching out to me! I would LOVE to work with you. It was my biggest wish and desire to have professional engineers in the field to help evaluate lessons and provide real feedback to student projects. I hadn't done much research on shoe traction design and friction testing really when I developed and gave this project to my students. To be honest, this project ...

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