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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Australian Trends in Engineering Education

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12/03/19 • 55 min

Like much of the world, Australian educators are increasingly embracing STEM education for younger students. Chris Perkins is one such teacher at Keithcot Farm Primary School outside Adelaide, South Australia. He talks about a range of issues on his radar as a STEM teacher, including how he stays up-to-date, Australian inventions, how New South Wales is a leader in that country for education, and more. For a video of the robot arm that Chris mentioned, see it here: https://youtu.be/L9rG8cD3pxQ The cover art for this episode comes from Gilbert Toyne’s 1925 Australian patent on the rotary clothesline: http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/ Related to this episode: • STEM Everyday: http://dailystem.com/stem-everyday-podcast/ • Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/twenty-one-elephants-and-still-standing-by-april-jones-prince/ • 44% of teachers leave after 5 years: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2018/10/today_teaching_force_richard_ingersoll.html • Australian curriculum: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ • Year 7 to high school: https://www.education.sa.gov.au/sites-and-facilities/year-7-high-school • Beebots: https://www.terrapinlogo.com/beebot.html • Ozobots: https://ozobot.com/ • Lego Mindstorms EV3 robots: https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/mindstorms-ev3 • Video of robot arm on website: https://youtu.be/L9rG8cD3pxQ • Rotary hills hoist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist • Australia’s Top 10 Inventions: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/01/australias-top-10-inventions-the-victa-lawn-mower/ • World Solar Car Challenge: https://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/ • Solar tiles article: https://theconversation.com/we-can-make-roof-tiles-with-built-in-solar-cells-now-the-challenge-is-to-make-them-cheaper-123775 • Wave energy: https://e360.yale.edu/features/why_wave_power_has_lagged_far_behind_as_energy_source • Texas A&M research on wave energy: https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2019/02/could-the-ocean-be-the-answer-to-a-clean-energy-supply.html • Food scientist and cook Ann Reardon debunking viral food videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26m8NmKPzUI • Verification and Validation, past episode: http://www.k12engineering.net/episodes/45 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Orthopaedics Engineering for Kids and Teens

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02/21/17 • 34 min

Dr. Jenni Buckley and Dr. Amy Trauth-Nare from the University of Delaware talk about Orthopaedics in Action (OIA), their curriculum in biomechanics and engineering design for middle school and high school students. They used their respective expertise in mechanical engineering and K-12 education to create the hands-on OIA lessons, which originated from an initiative to attract more women into orthopaedics as engineers and doctors. Hear them discuss the curriculum, the benefits of lessons rooted in biology, educational partnerships, and lessons in toy design, among other topics. Related to this episode: • The Professional Development Center for Educators at the University of Delaware: http://www.pdce.udel.edu/ • Orthopaedics in Action (OIA) curriculum: http://perryinitiative.org/orthoinaction/ • Perry Initiative: www.perryinitiative.org • Sawbones: www.sawbones.com • “Find Your Center,” article in The Science Teacher: http://digital.nsta.org/display_article.php?id=2554119&view=327538 • Project Lead The Way (PLTW) at The University of Delaware: http://www.cehd.udel.edu/pltw/ • MIT Toy Design open course materials: http://web.mit.edu/2.00b/www/ • Engineering is Elementary curriculum: http://www.eie.org/ • TeachEngineering: https://www.teachengineering.org/ • Change The Equation: http://changetheequation.org/ • Grand Challenges from the National Academy of Engineering: http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/ • Lab Out Loud podcast from the National Science Teachers Association: http://www.nsta.org/publications/laboutloud.aspx • “The Way Things Work,” book by David McCauley: http://hmhbooks.com/davidmacaulay/ • Twitter handle for Dr. Amy Trauth-Nare: @amy_nare • Twitter handle for The Perry Initiative: @PerryInitiative Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses: 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. Check out “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong on Amazon in print or for Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1520634900 It is also available as an ebook on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/704613 (Limited time 20% off promo code: EH22M)

Teacher Dreams and Nightmares

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10/24/16 • 34 min

We explore the alleged phenomenon of teachers getting bad dreams and nightmares, more often than everyone else, starting with several engineering teachers' most memorable ones. Do other teachers really get these dreams? Why do they get them? What should they do about them, if anything? Based on a little reading and communication with experts, we developed some preliminary answers to those questions.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

● Research on dream content and emotions, "Thematic and Content Analysis of Idiopathic Nightmares and Bad Dreams" (Robert & Zadra, 2014): http://www.journalsleep.org/viewabstract.aspx?pid=29326

● Research on dream frequency and themes, "Nightmare frequency and nightmare topics in a representative German sample" (Schredl, 2010): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20229263 book

● Website of Roxanna Elden, author of the book "See Me After Class": http://roxannaelden.com

● The "Disillisionment Power Pack" email series: http://roxannaelden.com/2015/09/announcing-the-new-teacher-disillusionment-power-pack/

● "What are Dreams?", PBS Nova documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/what-are-dreams.html

● Research on the transactional stress model/theory in teachers, "Identification of Elementary Teachers’ Risk for Stress and Vocational Concerns Using the National Schools and Staffing Survey" (Lambert, McCarthy, Fitchett, Lineback, & Reiser, 2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v23.1792

● TeacherPop.org, a teachers' mental health blog: http://teacherpop.org

Our opening music comes from "School Zone (radio edit)" by The Honorable Sleaze. Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor. Both are used under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net

Cybersecurity Awareness Month, with Nicole Bushong

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10/24/22 • 102 min

As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, cybersecurity engineer Nicole Bushong shares essential cybersecurity habits and tools for keeping organizations and individuals safe, as well as hot tips for getting into the many parts of this critical industry. Learn about data privacy, compliance, coding, hacking news, degrees and certifications, multi-factor authentication, and more.

Related to this episode:

• Cybersecurity and Being Human: https://k12engineering.net/episodes/80

• IR (incident response)

• Terraform: https://www.terraform.io/security

• GRC (governance, risk, and compliance)

• DevSecOps (development, security, and operations)

• Cybersecurity Awareness Month is October: https://www.cisa.gov/cybersecurity-awareness-month

• Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-facebook-privacy-awakening/

• DeSantis accused textbooks of ‘indoctrination.’ Here’s what he meant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/09/florida-banned-textbooks-math-desantis/

• Pen tester (penetration tester)

• Hack the Box: https://www.hackthebox.com/

• SANS courses: https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/

• UK police arrest teenager suspected of Uber, GTA 6 hacks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/15/uber-hack/

• KnowBe4 / Kevin Mitnick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick

• GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/

• HouSecCon: https://www.linkedin.com/company/houseccon

• StaySafeOnline: https://staysafeonline.org/

• OWASP: https://owasp.org/

Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

The Startup Reinventing Invention Kits

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11/08/18 • 39 min

What are the trends in educational kids’ toys today? How can programming kits be improved? How does an education business start and succeed? Entrepreneur Joseph Greer in Chicago discusses these issues as he describes his STEM education startup, MakeXchange, and its “Invention Lab” Arduino kit. The kit was designed to be more user-friendly and more organized than other Arduino kits. This is the start of Joseph’s goal to make the number one STEM education consumer product company. ***For a limited time this November, use the discount code K12ENGINEERING10 AT MakeXchange.com for a 10% discount. Related to this episode: • MakeXchange: https://www.makexchange.com/ • MakeXchange Inventor’s Kit: https://www.makexchange.com/collections/the-goods/products/electronics-invention-lab • Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide for Tweens: https://www.thetoyinsider.com/holiday_guide/tweens/ • Arduino: https://www.arduino.cc/ • Ohm’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_law • Accenture, consulting corporation: https://www.accenture.com/ • Marc Andreessen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen • Shawshank Redemption film spoilers: https://youtu.be/5y_O094dGDU • Lego Mindstorms robotics kits: https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms • MakeXchange Paper Airplane Launcher kit: https://www.makexchange.com/collections/the-goods/products/diy-paper-airplane-launcher-accessory • mHub Chicago, startup incubator: https://mhubchicago.com/ • Fat Brain Toys: https://www.fatbraintoys.com/ • My Science Shop: https://myscienceshop.com/ • MakeXchange YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC61eOn-djaK8ubdxzaRWfVA • Sparkiverse STEM education company: https://www.sparkiverselabs.com/ • Raspberry Pi computer: https://www.raspberrypi.org/ • Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago: https://polsky.uchicago.edu/ Our closing music is “Yes And” by Steve Combs, 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. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Cybersecurity and Being Human

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07/07/19 • 53 min

Cybersecurity needs more professionals working in the field, and guest Nicole Bushong from Houston shares why. They explain critical issues today in digital crime, cyberwarfare, hacking, public safety, and diversity of the tech workforce. They also explain key aspects of their own path toward this field, including navigating the still male-majority field of cybersecurity, working in a women’s tech organization at The University of Houston, and getting educated while having dyslexia. Related to this episode: • Engie North America: http://www.engie-na.com/ • Women in Cybersecurity, University of Houston (WICSUH): https://www.wicsuh.org/ • HouSecCon, Houston Security Conference: http://houstonseccon.org/ • “We’ve Entered a New Age of Cyberwar”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/trump-cyber-russia-power-hacking.html • Schlumberger: https://www.slb.com/ • Video on being a cyber threat intelligence analyst at Chevron: https://www.chevron.com/stories/i-am-a-cyber-threat-intelligence-analyst • Trailer for Zero Days documentary on Stuxnet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VgIayOpjEc • APTs, advanced persistent threats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat • DNC hacks 2016 elections: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/13/timeline-how-russian-agents-allegedly-hacked-the-dnc-and-clintons-campaign/?utm_term=.89d46f83cf28 • “Russia’s Elete Hackers Ma Have New Phishing Tricks”: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-fancy-bear-hackers-phishing/ • Simulated phishing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_phishing • RSA Archer, 3rd party vendor management: https://www.rsa.com/en-us/products/integrated-risk-management • Hack The Box, penetration testing challenge: https://www.hackthebox.eu/ • “Women Represent 20 Percent of the Global Cybersecurity Workforce in 2019”: https://cybersecurityventures.com/women-in-cybersecurity/ • Dyslexia: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dyslexia/symptoms-causes/syc-20353552 • “Looking at Irlen syndrome through a different lens”: https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sc-health-1112-irlen-kids-reading-20141104-story.html Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Leveling Up Your Career in Education

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01/26/20 • 18 min

How do you “develop your practice” as a teacher and administrator? Rachel and Pius discuss this question and share their thoughts on going deeper into their careers as educators, all after a dinner of Austin barbecue. Related to this episode: • Slab BBQ: http://realdopebbq.com/ • The cover art is a photo of the Slab BBQ wall, showing patches from the 10th Mountain Division: https://home.army.mil/drum/index.php/units-tenants/10th-mountain-division-li • Highway 290 named for 10th Mountain Division: https://www.aaroads.com/guides/us-290-west-bastrop-tx/ • Math Anxiety: http://www.k12engineering.net/episodes/53 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Inventing GPS

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01/16/20 • 32 min

Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS subsystem of the atomic clock. Hugo was one of four recipients of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, along with Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Professor James Spilker, and Richard Schwartz. Related to this episode: • Hugo’s website: http://hugofruehauf.com/ • Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering: https://qeprize.org/ Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Q&A with a Chemical Engineer

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10/31/19 • 54 min

What does a chemical engineer do? What makes a good one? What should young people know about the field? Chemical engineer Will Mullen helps us answer these questions and more. Will is a Process Engineer and Engineering Manager at a manufacturing plant for specialty chemicals in North Carolina. Before that he managed facilities and worked in chemical plants in Texas and Georgia, and he has been involved in youth leadership for many years. Related to this episode: • NC State Chemical Engineering: https://www.cbe.ncsu.edu/ • Skype a Scientist: https://www.skypeascientist.com/ • NC State Engineering Ambassadors: https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/academics/undergrad/engineering-ambassadors/ • Engineering Grand Challenges from National Academy of Engineers: http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/ • Cradle-to-Grave Assessment (Life Cycle Assessment): https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/cradle-to-grave-assessment • Solar sails: https://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/what-is-solar-sailing.html • Educators, you can contact Will about chemical engineering: [email protected] • South by Southwest EDU: https://www.sxswedu.com/ Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Truth in Storytelling: The Reality of Teachers' Lives

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08/06/18 • 45 min

Author Roxanna Elden discusses her new satirical novel Adequate Yearly Progress, which tells the story of the teachers’ lives across one year in the fictional Texas high school of Brae Hill Valley. Roxanna’s book draws on her own experience as a K-12 public school teacher and her conversations with other teachers around the country. Roxanna says that past portrayals of teachers in popular media can be very unrealistic, and her book is meant to challenge that. Related to this episode: • Roxanna Elden, author: https://roxannaelden.com/ • “Adequate Yearly Progress” on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Adequate-Yearly-Progress-Roxanna-Elden/dp/1732098700/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 • Adequate Yearly Progress as described by the Texas Education Agency: https://tea.texas.gov/ayp/ • “See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers” on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/See-Me-After-Class-Teachers/dp/1402297068 • “The Office” TV show, on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386676/ • Tom Wolf, author and journalist, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolfe • Zadie Smith, author: http://www.zadiesmith.com/ • Alisa Valdez Rodriguez, author, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisa_Valdes • “Freedom Writers” film, on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463998/ • National Novel Writing Month: https://nanowrimo.org/ • Vote for our proposals for SXSW 2019! "Podcasting Meetup: Educator Give & Get" (https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/90770), and "Teachers in Tech: Talking With Career Changers" at SXSW EDU (https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/91608) and SXSW (https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/91091) Our closing music is “Yes And” by Steve Combs, 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. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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The episode title 'Inventing GPS' is the most popular.

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The first episode of The K12 Engineering Education Podcast was released on May 31, 2016.

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