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    The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

    Promoting education in engineering and design for all ages. Learn more and read transcripts at www.k12engineering.net. Produced by Pius Wong, engineer, of Pios Labs (www.pioslabs.com). This podcast is for educators, engineers, entrepreneurs, and parents interested in bringing engineering to younger ages. Listen to real conversations among various professionals in the engineering education space, as we try to find better ways to educate and inspire kids in engineering thinking. For episode transcripts and more information, visit: www.k12engineering.net Topics include overcoming institutional barriers to engineering and STEM in K12, cool ways to teach engineering, equity in access to engineering, industry needs for engineers, strategies for training teachers, “edtech” solutions for K12 classrooms, curriculum and pedagogy reviews, and research on how kids learn engineering knowledge and skills. Thanks for listening!

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    Visiting Engineers Virtually Oct 02, 2017
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    How can teachers expose their students to more engineering role models? What do they do if they don’t have time to arrange visits and field trips? That’s where Sarah McAnulty comes in. Sarah is a biology PhD student who also recently started Skype a Scientist, which is a free program to match scientists and engineers with K-12 classrooms. Sarah spoke with us about how the program helps more students get authentic interactions with STEM professionals. Mentioned in this episode: • Skype a Scientist: https://www.skypeascientist.com/ • About Sarah McAnulty: https://about.me/SarahMcAnulty • Hawaiian bobtail squid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euprymna_scolopes • Sarah’s lab at the University of Connecticut: http://nyholmlab.uconn.edu/people/ • Email the program: skypeascientist@gmail.com Our closing music is called “I Miss You” by Soirée, used with permission, and you can find more of Soirée’s music on SoundCloud, user “soireebeats”: https://soundcloud.com/soireebeats Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Support Pios Labs at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Workshops and Professional Development: http://www.pioslabs.com/workshops/ • Electronic Quilts Curriculum Design: http://www.pioslabs.com/equilts.html • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

    Digital Pop Culture for STEM Sep 18, 2017
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    How do you use the power of digital pop culture today to engage kids in engineering? Guest engineer Nehemiah Mabry, Ph.D., talks about this and more. Nehemiah is a practicing engineer in North Carolina and founder of his business STEMedia. STEMedia creates digital content to promote science, technology, engineering, and math. Mentioned in this episode: • STEMedia website: http://stemedia.org/ • Email Nehemiah: Nehemiah@stemedia.org • STEMedia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stemedia/ • STEMedia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_stemedia • Technimetric STEM Poetry: https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/march-2016/technimetric-poetry-stem • National Academy of Engineering: http://nae.org/ • NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html • PBS STEM Resources: https://klru.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/kycol/#.Wb9KpsiGOUk • HowStuffWorks: http://www.howstuffworks.com/ • Discovery: https://www.discovery.com/ Our closing music is called “Wishing” by Soirée, used with permission, and you can find more of Soirée’s music on SoundCloud, user “soireebeats”: https://soundcloud.com/soireebeats Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Support Pios Labs at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Workshops and Professional Development: http://www.pioslabs.com/workshops/ • Electronic Quilts Curriculum Design: http://www.pioslabs.com/equilts.html • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

    Mexico vs. USA Sep 10, 2017
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    What is engineering education like in Mexico compared to the USA? This episode is an introduction to that topic as we talk to Hernando Garrido, a mechatronics and manufacturing engineer with the medical device company Fresenius Medical Care. He talks about his experience growing up in the Mexican school system near the US-Mexico border in Reynosa. He also compares it to his experience studying and working in Texas and California. Mentioned in this episode: • Fresenius Medical Care: https://fmcna.com/ • City of Reynosa, Mexico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynosa • Peritoneal dialysis machines: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/kidney-disease/kidney-failure/peritoneal-dialysis • Design For Manufacturability (DFM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability • University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) in Edinburgh, Texas: http://www.utrgv.edu/en-us/ • Corning: https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en.html • FIRST Robotics Competition: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc Our closing music is called “Wishing” by Soirée, used with permission, and you can find more of Soirée’s music on SoundCloud, user @soireebeats: https://soundcloud.com/soireebeats Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Support Pios Labs at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Workshops and Professional Development: http://www.pioslabs.com/workshops/ • Electronic Quilts Curriculum Design: http://www.pioslabs.com/equilts.html • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

    Scouting for Engineering Education Sep 04, 2017
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    The Boy Scouts of America are growing a new youth educational program called STEM Scouts, open to boys and girls. Guests Davis Fox and Deborah (Debbie) Vasquez talk about the mission of the program, which goes beyond teaching content knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and math. It includes teaching curiosity, teamwork, parental involvement, and other values that align with Scouting programs generally. Davis and Deborah also discuss the program impact on kids in the Austin, Texas, area so far. Mentioned in this episode: • STEM Scouts: https://stemscouts.org/ • Boy Scouts of America (BSA): http://www.scouting.org/ • Venturing program at BSA: http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Venturing.aspx • Exploring program at BSA: http://www.exploring.org/ • STEM Scouts in Austin, TX: https://stemscouts.org/council/8/austin/ • Vertical farming background article: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170405-how-vertical-farming-reinvents-agriculture Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. You can support Pios Labs at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

    Verification and Validation Aug 21, 2017
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    Guest engineer and consultant Pat Sweet, P.Eng., talks about two of his favorite words in engineering: verification and validation. They describe concepts whose importance cuts across all the engineering disciplines, and so engineering educators could also teach these fundamental concepts to kids and teens. This episode is a rebroadcast of two short episodes of Engineering Word Of The Day, a podcast on the favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. Mentioned in this episode: • Engineering Word Of The Day (EWOTD) podcast: http://engineeringwordoftheday.com • Engineering and Leadership blog and podcast from Pat Sweet, P.Eng.: http://www.engineeringandleadership.com/ • Lean design, an introduction: https://lean-product-design.18f.gov/ • Finite element analysis (FEA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method Mentioned in the post-show notes: • Vote for our session at SXSW Edu Panelpicker! “Podcasting for Education Meetup”: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/71654 Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Help Pios Labs continue! You can donate at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

    Road to Civil Engineering Aug 14, 2017
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    What’s it like to engineer roadways and the physical infrastructure of society? Guest Jerel Rackley, P.E., explains. Jerel is a civil engineer with the design and consulting firm Atkins, and in his fourteen years of experience in the field, he has seen what it takes to succeed. Hear him talk about taking the Professional Engineer (P.E.) exam, working with clients, the importance of people skills, the future of advanced 3D modeling in civil engineering, and more. Mentioned in this episode: • Atkins: http://www.atkinsglobal.com/en-GB • Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam, for Professional Engineer licensure: http://ncees.org/engineering/pe/ • Microstation CAD software: https://www.bentley.com/en/products/brands/microstation • Geopak road design software: https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/civil-design-software/geopak-civil-engineering-suite • Texas Department of Transportation: https://www.txdot.gov/ • Central Texas Mobility Authority: https://www.mobilityauthority.com/ • US-183 South roadway project: https://www.183south.com/ • OpenRoads 3D design software: https://www.bentley.com/en/products/brands/openroads Mentioned in the post-show notes: • Vote for our session at SXSW Edu Panelpicker! “Podcasting for Education Meetup”: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/71654 Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Help Pios Labs continue! You can donate at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Engineering Word Of The Day (EWOTD) podcast: http://engineeringwordoftheday.com • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

    Raising an Electrical Engineer Aug 07, 2017
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    How do you make an engineer? Guest engineer Leyla Yilan shares her thoughts. Leyla is an electrical and computer engineer at chip-maker AMD, as well as a proud parent of two daughters. She tells her story of how she got into the field, explaining the importance of family and friends in pivoting her toward engineering. Then she talks about how she tries to expose her kids to different fields like she was. Also hear Leyla talk about equivalence checking, being a daughter of an immigrant, gendered toys, bringing your daughter to work, and more. Mentioned in this episode: • Maker Kids Lab on the podcast: http://www.k12engineering.net/transcripts/ep39.html • AMD, computer chip maker: http://www.amd.com/en/home • Background on equivalence checking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_equivalence_checking • Digital logic tutorial: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/digital-logic • Common Core educational standards: http://www.corestandards.org/ • Girlstart on the podcast: http://www.k12engineering.net/transcripts/ep21.html • LEGO Friends: https://www.lego.com/en-us/friends • Sparki robot, from ArcBotics, on the podcast: http://www.k12engineering.net/transcripts/ep12.html • Kumon private after-school programs: https://www.kumon.com/ Mentioned in the post-show notes: • Vote for our session at SXSW Edu Panelpicker! “Podcasting for Education Meetup”: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/71654 • Wikipedia Viewer, an ideation tool by Pius Wong: http://piuswong.net/wikipediaviewer/ Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Help Pios Labs continue! You can donate at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Engineering Word Of The Day (EWOTD) podcast: http://engineeringwordoftheday.com • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

    Entrepreneurship in Engineering Jul 31, 2017
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    Mechanical engineer and PhD student Sadhan Sathyaseelan cohosts with engineer-entrepreneur Pius Wong in today’s episode. We talk about Sadhan’s experience learning that engineering students want to be business leaders, and we brainstorm ideas for teaching entrepreneurship in schools. We also discuss our favorite entrepreneurs and learn about new trends to teach entrepreneurship as part of engineering in K-12.


    Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License.


    Listen to the Engineering Word Of The Day podcast. Also check out the book and ebook Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Kindle, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, and other retailers.

    Skateboard Mechanical Engineering Jul 17, 2017
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    Guest mechanical engineer Beau Trifiro talks about his business in skateboard design, fabrication, and education. Based in San Diego, Open Source Skateboards not only builds custom skateboards, it also teaches kids in middle school and high school how to design and build their own boards. Beau talks about teaching hands-on projects, how he deals with kids making mistakes, and why he thinks studying mechanical engineering allows for so much creativity. Mentioned in this episode: • Open Source Skateboards website: http://www.opensourceboards.com/ • Open Source Skateboards on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/opensourceskateboards • Open Source Skateboards on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opensourceboards/ • Fab Lab San Diego: http://www.fablabsd.org/ Mentioned in the post-show notes: • Voting open soon for SXSW proposals: http://panelpicker.sxsw.edu • Check out this month’s drone contest to win free passes to the InterDrone conference this fall (*Only covers registration, though, so you still have to find travel/lodging. Also you must be 16+ years old to go to InterDrone). Submit entries before August 1, 2017. • Drone Photo Contest rules and submission from Electronics Valley: https://lovendrone17.pgtb.me/X7rqJK • Drone Raffle for podcast listeners: Just email info@k12engineering.net with subject “Drone Raffle” • InterDrone conference info: http://www.interdrone.com/ Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Help Pios Labs continue! You can donate at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Engineering Word Of The Day (EWOTD) podcast: http://engineeringwordoftheday.com • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

    China vs. USA Jul 10, 2017
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    How does China prepare students for careers in computer science and related fields, compared to the USA? Hear from a Chinese student of computer science and mathematics who is studying in Texas for his undergraduate degree. He talks about the notorious Chinese college entrance exams, similarities between math and computer science, perceptions of an American education and American companies among Chinese, and why he would have learned more programming at a younger age if he could have. Mentioned in this episode: • Districts of Beijing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_of_Beijing • Chinese college entrance exam photos: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-college-entrance-exams-2017-5 • Summer camps at The University of Texas at Austin: http://www.mysummeradvisor.com/MSA/app/school/summer-programs-and-camps/university-of-texas-at-austin/636 Mentioned in the post-show notes: Check out this month’s drone contest to win free passes to the InterDrone conference this fall (*Only covers registration, though, so you still have to find travel/lodging. Also you must be 16+ years old to go to InterDrone). Submit entries before August 1, 2017. Details below: • InterDrone conference info: http://www.interdrone.com/ • Drone Photo Contest rules and submission from Electronics Valley: https://lovendrone17.pgtb.me/X7rqJK • Drone Raffle for podcast listeners: Just email info@k12engineering.net with subject “Drone Raffle” Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Help Pios Labs continue! You can donate at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Engineering Word Of The Day (EWOTD) podcast: http://engineeringwordoftheday.com • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

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