Autor/-in: Elissa Milto

Elissa is Director of Outreach at Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. She works to provide schools, teachers, other organizations, and students with engineering design opportunities. Before coming to Tufts CEEO, Elissa was a classroom teacher, working with high school students with special needs. She began working with the CEEO in 1999 while teaching at a local school, bringing engineering into her English classroom. The following year she entered Tufts as a graduate student at the Center, taking classes in engineering and education, and received a MEd. Excited by the Center's work and mission, Elissa continued working at the Center. Elissa is particularly interested in using open-ended, client-centered problems to bring engineering to elementary and middle school students, exploring ways that students with different learning styles and interests can become excited by and access engineering. As an extension of this work with students, Elissa is interested in understanding what teachers need as they bring engineering with messy, ill-defined problems into their classrooms.