The 17th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation will be held on February 26-28, 2020 in Athens, GA. EETI faculty member, Dominik May, EETI faculty member serves as chair, and Joachim Walter, EETI Founder and Director, serves as program co-chair. UGA College of Engineering faculty member and recipient of an EETI research initiation [Read More]
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01/27/2020
EETI wins best overall paper award at the 2019 Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference
EETI is excited to announce that Drs. Nicola Sochacka, Joachim Walther, John Morelock, Nathanial Hunsu, and Peter Carnell have won the overall best paper award at 30th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, AAEE2019! The paper, titled “Cultivating a culture of scholarly teaching and learning: An ecological approach to institutional change in [Read More]
01/09/2020
EETI wins the University System of Georgia Teaching Excellence Award for Department or Program
We are excited to announce that EETI has won the 2020 Teaching Excellence Award for Department or Program from the University System of Georgia (USG)! As a competitive award in the State of Georgia, each nominee competes with the top nominee from each of USG’s 26 higher education institutions. The award “is designed to showcase [Read More]
11/18/2019
Forum: Distinguished Speaker Dr. Karl Reid, Executive Director, NSBE
EETI’s distinguished speaker seminar will be by Dr. Karl Reid, Executive Director of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). The forum will take place Monday, November 18, from 12:30 – 2 PM in Coverdell 175. In their recent book, “A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education,” David Goldberg and Mark Somerville state [Read More]
09/10/2019
Congratulations to Drs. Gomillion & Sochacka on Their Recent NSF Award on Microcultures in Engineering Laboratories
EETI is pleased to congratulate Drs. Cheryl Gomillion and Nicola Sochacka on their recent NSF grant, entitled “An Investigator Development Plan for Building Capacity to Explore Diverse Microcultures in Graduate Engineering Research Laboratories.” The goal of this project is to build the educational research expertise required to study diverse microcultures in graduate research settings. Such [Read More]
08/31/2019
EETI faculty receives $1M NSF award to create institute for research methods
Drs. Joachim Walther and Nicola Sochacka will create The ProQual Institute (PQI) for research Methods in STEM education. The overarching goal of this project is to expand the community of scholars who have the skills to conduct high quality, qualitative and mixed methods research in STEM education. Walther and Sochacka will achieve this goal through [Read More]
08/23/2019
A Successful Year for UGA at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference
We were excited to see a strong showing at the 2019 ASEE Annual Meeting from more than 25 faculty and graduate students in UGA’s College of Engineering, several of whom were funded to attend through EETI’s Travel Fellowship Program. UGA attendees accounted for 16 presentations across 12 ASEE divisions and three posters in the NSF [Read More]
08/23/2019
Congratulations to Drs. Carnell, Hunsu, & Sochacka on Their Recent NSF Award to Study Resilience
EETI is pleased to congratulate Drs. Peter Carnell, Nathaniel Hunsu, and Nicola Sochacka on their recent NSF grant, entitled “A study to examine and foster academic resilience in undergraduate engineering students.” This exploratory study will examine the role that academic resilience, an intrapersonal professional skill, may play in enhancing the performance of students in challenging [Read More]
05/02/2019
Congratulations to Dr. John Morelock for winning 2019 Best Paper Award in ASEE’s Faculty Development Constituent Committee
We are pleased to congratulate Dr. John Morelock, who has won the Faculty Development Constituent Committee’s (FDCC) best paper award for the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Dr. Morelock is EETI’s Associate Director for Educational Innovation and Impact, and his research primarily focuses on engineering educational development and institutional change. His paper is entitled Academic [Read More]
04/22/2019
Forum: Distinguished Speaker Dr. Beth Cady from the National Academies
The National Academy of Engineering has long played an important role in examining engineering practice and leveraging its findings and resources to help guide the direction of engineering education accordingly. In this talk, Beth will give an overview of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as well as more specific programs of the [Read More]