EETI is excited to welcome John Morelock as its Associate Director for Educational Innovation and Impact in EETI. In this role, John will be coordinating faculty and graduate student professional development opportunities, including EETI’s monthly engineering education Forum, annual travel grant program, and the College of Engineering’s graduate TA pedagogy course. He received his doctoral [Read More]
11/20/2018
Forum: Teaching Tricks in Practice
In this interactive session, we will revisit several of Dr. Kristina Edstrom’s Teaching Tricks “How to improve student learning without spending more time teaching.” Since Dr. Edstrom’s visit in the spring, multiple faculty have experimented with these approaches. In this forum, we will review these tricks, share experiences, and invite participants to consider how the [Read More]
10/23/2018
Invited Speaker Forum: Pablo Orduña, Co-founder & CEO at LabsLand
EETI is excited to welcome distinguished speaker Pablo Orduña, who will speak about remote labs in engineering education. Over the last years, the introduction of new media has profoundly affected teaching and learning practices in higher education. New media has not only changed our way of interacting and communicating with students but has also established previously [Read More]
09/25/2018
Forum: Insights from UGA CTL Active Learning Summer Institutes
In this interactive forum, you will be invited to engage with 20 or so Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) that ALSI participants are using in their classrooms. We will also be giving out a range of materials (books, timers, whiteboard markers…) gifted to us from the CTL because of our high rate of participation in the [Read More]
09/05/2018
Forum: EETI Travel Fellows: Lessons Learned
EETI’s second Fall 2018 Forum will feature insights from five EETI travel fellows (Eliza Banu, Peter Carnell, Cheryl Gomillion, Grace Pokoo-Aikins, and Siddharth Savadatti) who travelled to the ASEE Annual Conference and/or the Teaching Professor Conference this past summer. Expect to leave with specific ideas to integrate into the classroom!
09/04/2018
Spring 2018 Activities
Announcing EETI’s Spring 2018 semester activities. Activities include five engineering education forums, featuring Pablo Orduna from LabsLand. EETIncubator will meet regularly to develop projects as part of a supportive cohort. The flyer for all activities is available here.
04/10/2018
Workshop by Kristina Edström from KTH Royal Institute of Technology
When improvement of student learning is discussed, a common reaction is to assume that any new teaching methods require a higher teaching effort. And surely, anyone can improve a course by spending 100 hours more teaching time, but for apparent reasons this is not a sustainable strategy. So how can student learning be improved within [Read More]
04/09/2018
Invited Speaker Forum: Distinguished lecture by Kristina Edström from KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Higher engineering education is simultaneously academic, emphasizing theory in a range of disciplines, and professional, preparing students for engineering practice. The theoretical knowledge and practice-oriented aspects are, however, not merely two separate components that need to be appropriately balanced, but the ideal is a curriculum in which they are also in a meaningful relationship. Therefore, [Read More]
03/27/2018
2018 EETI Travel Fellowship Program
Six faculty members in the College of Engineering have been named EETI Explorer Travel Fellows. They will attend one of two education conferences over the summer. Drs. Peter Carnell, Siddharth Savadatti, Robert Baffour, Cheryl Gomillion, Eliza Banu, and Grace Pokoo-Aikins will travel to Salt Lake City, UT, to participate in the American Society for Engineering Education [Read More]
03/27/2018
Forum: Spring 2018 Showcase of CENGR SOTL Work
It’s that time of the semester again. Join us to learn about what our faculty are doing to promote active and student centered learning in the College of Engineering! Hillary Tanner will speak about “Reflections and Future Plans for Active Learning in ENGR 1120.” Nathaniel Hunsu will report on “A Preliminary Reviews of Academic Resilience [Read More]