On March 5 at 3PM, ET, EETI member, Dr. Racheida Lewis, and Dr. Trine Fletcher will focus on the struggles of women in engineering during the COVID-19 crisis compared to their male counterparts and at the intersection of race. This seminar will highlight the challenges women in the United States face when they step into [Read More]
Archive for the ‘News’ Category
02/04/2021
Kyle Johnsen Awarded EETI Augmented, Remote, and Virtual Experimentation Grant
As the global pandemic continues, the need for augmented and virtual reality in education grows. This technology is proving to not only benefit students but educators as well. Remote learning has become necessary to stay healthy, but standard methods of remote learning have their limitations, especially when it comes to STEM education. EETI continues to [Read More]
11/18/2020
Dominik May Serves as Guest Editor for JCHE Special Issue on “Online Labs and Virtual Experimentation in Higher Education”
In these unprecedented times, shifting to online learning has been vital for institutions around the world. Though there has been previous experimentation with virtual courses, the global pandemic has made online classrooms/laboratories essential in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. Remote learning in STEM education has been achieved through the emergence of digitally augmented, [Read More]
11/05/2020
EETI Releases Fourth RAPID Interim Brief
On October 26, 2020, we released a fourth interim brief that provides an update on our ongoing, NSF-funded investigation of how students, staff, and faculty in our college are experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic and transition to online and hybrid learning. This report detailed findings based on 71 new stories (faculty = 30, staff = 10, [Read More]
10/22/2020
2021 EETI Augmented, Remote, and Virtual Experimentation Grants
Following the great success of the EETI Augmented, Remote, and Virtual Experimentation Grants in 2019, the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI) is offering new grant opportunities to promote online laboratories and virtual experimentation in the UGA College of Engineering. EETI is committed to promoting a thriving ecosystem of future-oriented engineering education programs at UGA. Furthermore, the current [Read More]
05/26/2020
Resilience in Engineering Education
EETI is researching resilience in engineering education and the factors involved with student performance in challenging engineering courses. This study focuses on developing methods to improve the success of undergraduate students in their courses and post-graduation. Moreover, the research will help inform faculty on the professional skills most vital in engineering fields. Full Article [Read More]
05/08/2020
EETI Facilitated ASEE Free Webinar: A Novel Approach to Study and Adapt to the Real-time Impacts of COVID-19 on Engineering Education
On May 19 at 1 PM, ET EETI members Nicola Sochacka, John Morelock, Racheida Lewis, and Joachim Walther discuss their research into the ways COVID-19 has impacted faculty, staff, and students at the University of Georgia. This webinar focuses on the lessons learned from this crises to better understand the most important factors in teaching engineering, [Read More]
04/24/2020
EETI releases first RAPID interim brief
As part of EETI’s NSF RAPID project to understand faculty, staff, and student experiences with the COVID-19 crisis and offer guidance moving forward, we developed and released our first interim brief to offer guidance to the College based on our first wave of data collection. During the first 10 days of this project, we collected [Read More]
02/14/2020
REV 2020 to be held at UGA
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]
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]