National Institute of Aerospace Research and Graduate Education for the 21st Century

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Engineers as Educators

• Sharon Bowers, NIA Educator-in-Residence
• Elana Slagle, Educational Consultant
• 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
• January 6, 2010

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Tonights Goal
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Know your audience

• When it comes to STEM, Im
• A scientist
• A technologist
• An engineer
• A mathematician

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• Why are you here?

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• Why we hope youre here

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Science is the study of what Is, Engineering
builds what Will Be.
Engineers and Scientists
The scientist merely explores that which exists,
while the engineer creates what has never
existed before.

Theodore
VonKármán, c.a. 1957
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Black Boxes

• Scientific
• Method

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Black Boxes

• Engineering
• Design Process

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• How do you describe what you do?

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Four Corners

• An engineer is most like
• Snickers
• 3 Musketeers
• Twix
• Milky Way

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• What you need to invent, is an imagination
  and a pile of junk.''
• Thomas Edison

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The challenge Use the materials provided to
make a flying object that travels further than
all others. You must be ready to test your flying
object in 10 minutes.
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SCAMPER
How have Oreo cookies changed over the years?
Why have they changed?
S C A M P E R
Substitute
Combine
Adapt
Magnify or minify
Put to other use
Eliminate
Reverse or rearrange
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Re-design you have 15 minutes before you need
to demonstrate your new design.
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Snowball Battle

• 3 things I like
• 2 things I can teach
• 1 way to extend

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Team Challenge
Using the materials provided, create a hot air
balloon.
The competition Can your hot air balloon
stay aloft longer than any other hot air
balloons, initially powered by 30 seconds of hot
air from a hair dryer?
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Team Challenge

• Musts
• Use no more than 7 sheets of tissue paper
• You will only have 30 seconds of hot air from a
  hair dryer
• You have 30 minutes to complete your balloon.
• Mays
• You may follow either set of directions or create
  your own design.

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Connecting to Standards

• Position and motion of objectsNSES K-4
• Pushing/Pulling
• Motions and forces NSES 5-8
• Describing Motion
• Newtons Three Laws of Motion
• Motions and forces NSES 9-12
• Newtons Three Laws of Motion
• Gravity

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Connecting to Standards

• Properties of objects and materialsNSES K-4
• Observable and measurable properties
• Properties and changes of properties in
  matterNSES 5-8
• Characteristic properties
• Structure and properties of matterNSES 9-12
• The physical properties of compounds reflect the
  nature of the interactions among its molecules
  and atoms.

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Connecting to Standards

• Science and Technology NSES K-4
• Abilities of technological design
• Understanding about science and technology
• Abilities to distinguish between natural objects
  and objects made by humans.
• Science and Technology NSES 5-8 and 9-12
• Abilities of technological design
• Understanding about science and technology

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Resources
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Resources
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Resources
When did you know
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Humor
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More Humor
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Wordle Review
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Animoto Documentation
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• ENGAGE
• EXPLORE
• EXPLAIN
• EXTEND
• ENJOY