One of our colleagues on the eSyst development team and instructor of electronics engineering, Bassam Matar, has been awarded one of EE Times ACE Awards for Educator of the Year! Below is some of the announcement Bassam recieved:
Congratulations!
You were nominated and selected as the 2010 EE Times ACE Award Educator of the Year. Your […]
This installment of our @matec newsletter article ”Education Challenges in the 21st Century”, inspired by Cathleen Barton’s presentation at the HI-TEC 2009 event, focuses on the “Public View on Manufacturing”. A recent study, commissioned by Deloitte LLP and The Manufacturing Institute, shows that Americans view manufacturing as the most important industry for a strong national economy. […]
This blog is written by Peggie Weeks of the Evalua|t|e Center. She was a panelist on NetWorks’ webinar, Evaluating Student Impact (click to view the recording) and was a comment about using trial and error for students. She writes more about this:
I made a comment during MATEC’s Evaluating Student Impact webinar about a “trial and […]
This is the 6th and final week of the Learning in 3D Blog Tour. You can find the list of sites here. It has been great following the book around and discovering some great educational blogs. If you have not been keeping up with the tour, you can go to the above link to get all […]
Assessing impact is very important if you are an instructor or assessing a NSF project. Last week I was lucky enough to attend a Evaua|t|e workshop on Assessing with Joellen Killion, of the National Staff Development Council, as the presenter. It was an excellent workshop and I learned a lot. One of the take aways I […]
Things are NetWorks are really busy. I am working on the library and checking each resource the library has. 78 down, 1300 more to go. Plus I hosted the NACK webinar last Friday on Introduction to Nano-characterization, and have an eSyst implementation webinar on Microprocessors. You can catch the NACK webinar recording here, and you […]
Today the Learning in 3D blog tour stops here at TechSpectives!
Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll’s book, Learning in 3D, has come at a great time for me. Our Advance Technology Center is writing a grant – and part of the grant is a student portal in a VIE. While I do not think I can get my […]
Alright, last week I teased about one of a few announcements on the projects that I am working on. I was going to tease about having a special guest on our blog - but let me just give you the information so that you can follow along. Next week, on the 19, we will have […]
The lexicon of the world changes regularly. One thing I stress to my students that when they are writing that they be careful not to use slang in their work. Slang can be cutural, generational, even regional. Remember when the word bad actualy meant bad? And then it changed to good, back to bad for a […]
This semester I had a very interesting group of students - One student was in his seventies, another was forty-six, a few in their thirties, a bunch of twenty year olds, and finally a student who was sixteen. All in the same class. Four generations of students. The dynamics of this class is very interesting. You […]
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