Engineering Professor Scott Campbell Reports STEM Education and Outreach Projects
Scott Campbell, a professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, has been active in four STEM education/outreach projects over the past several years. It so happened that all of them reached a point that they could be reported on about the time of the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Tampa.
Individual Learning for High-demand Fields
Atop USF’s tallest building, five students and one instructor huddle inside one of the newest state-of-the-art Biomedical Engineering (BME) labs. With plenty of space and time to go over the class lecture and lab activities, students are able to learn more quickly and develop stronger career-shaping relationships.
Bulls-EYE Mentoring Puts Tampa Middle Schoolers on Path to Engineering
Summer for most middle schoolers rarely involves laboratory tours, but about 40 Tampa Bay middle schoolers from the USF Bulls-EYE Mentoring program spent some of their summer break learning about nanotechnology at the USF Nanotechnology Research and Education Center this July.
USF Professor Autar Kaw Serves as Fulbright Specialist in Malaysia
It was in 2013 that the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs admitted Autar Kaw, University of South Florida (USF) professor of mechanical engineering, into the prestigious Fulbright Specialist Program roster. The admission to the roster took place after an application and recommendation of a review panel. The program is highly selective and made Professor Kaw eligible to serve as a specialist to academic institutions in need of expertise on engineering education.
Mentoring Program Helps Students Keep EYE on the Future
Giving Tampa Bay area middle school students a chance to consider what studying science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) could lead to is the idea behind the Bulls Engineering Youth Experience (Bulls-EYE) mentoring program, a five-week introduction to engineering held at the College of Engineering during the summer.
NSF $5 million S-STEM Grant Supports Engineering Students
As part of a grant from the National Science Foundation the University of South Florida, the University of Central Florida, and Florida International University each received over $1 million in student scholarships to remove the financial barriers to student success and increase the number of graduates in the key IT-related disciplines of computer science, computer engineering, and information technology. The grant is designed to remove financial barriers and increase the number of graduates and was awarded to Ken Christensen and Rafael Perez in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.