ROBOLAB, LEGO ENGINEER, LabVIEW publications...

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"Middle School Engineering With LEGO and LabVIEW" (11MB, powerpoint95) by Ben Erwin. Presented at the MIT LabVIEW in Education days and National Instruments Week, August 1998, in Austin, Texas. legolabview.pdf  
Creative Learning in School with LEGO Programmable Robotics Products Kin W. Lau, Heng Kiat Tan, Ben Erwin, Pavel Petrovic to be included in the proceedings at Frontiers in Education Conference, November 1999. 1487.pdf  
"Kids and Technology '99 Day." Ben Erwin and Beryl Jupiter Weston Town Crier, June 3, 1999.   http://www.townonline.com/weston/archive/060399/009396_0
_kids_060399_98f0a24bc9.html
"Toy to some, budding robot to others" Sacha Pfeiffer Boston Sunday Globe, December 13, 1998.  

Can be ordered from Boston Globe Archives
http://boston.com/globe/search/ (search for Sacha Pfieiffer)

"Weston Middle School students build racing robots." Shawn Regan Weston Town Crier, November 12, 1998.  

http://www.townonline.com/weston/archive/111298/018887_
0_weston_111298_7d24d30baf.html

Portsmore, Merredith, ROBOLAB: Intuitive Robotic Programming Software to Support Life Long Learning, APPLE Learning Technology Review, Spring/Summer 1999 robolab.pdf http://www.apple.com/education/LTReview/spring99/robolab/
Erwin, B., M. Cyr, C.B. Rogers, "LEGO Engineer and ROBOLAB: Teaching Engineering with LabVIEW from Kindergarten to Graduate School." In press, International Journal of Engineering Education, 2000. Ijee1121.pdf  
McNamara, Scott, Martha Cyr, Chris Rogers, Barbara Bratzel, "LEGO Bricks Sculptures and Robotics in Education." ASEE 1999. ASEE99robots.pdf  
Capozzoli, P. and C.B. Rogers, LEGOs and Aeronautics in Kindergarten Through College, AIAA 96-2245, 1996. AIAAEducation2.pdf  
Cyr, M., Miragila, V., Nocera, T., Rogers, C. A Low-Cost, Innovative Methodology for Teaching Engineering Through Experimentation. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2 (??) LEGO_6.pdf??  
     

 

Citations without documents...

Cyr, M., Rogers, C. Enhancing Education with LEGO Bricks and Paperclips. Proceedings of FEDSM 1998 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. June 21-25, Washington D.C.

Osborne, J., Erwin, B., Cyr, M., Rogers, C. A Creative and Low-Cost Method of Teaching Hands-On Engineering Experimentation Using Virtual Instrumentation, 2nd place entry, Education category, National Instruments Week 1997.

Pols, Y., C.B. Rogers and I.N. Miaoulis, Making Eighth Grade Science Exciting Through Aeronautics, Int. Jrnl. Engng. Ed., Vol. 83, 3, 243, 1994.

Pols, Y.D., C.B. Rogers, Bringing Engineering into Your Local Elementary School: A Beginner's Guide, ASME FED Vol. 182, pp.75-78, 1994.

Rogers, C.B., Lego(TM) building blocks and LabVIEW Teach Laboratory Skills, Instrumentation Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1996.