UPRM Cen SSIS Education Component Outline Overview of

UPRM Cen. SSIS Education Component

Outline Overview of UPRM program l Tools and Toys Lab l Intro to EE course l Scholars l Undergraduate research l Outreach l Opportunities l

Overview of UPRM Program l Centered around Tools and Toys Lab l Courses l Outreach l Module development l Scholar selection

High Tech Tools and Toys Lab l 10 stations (7 operational) l l l l Digital cameras Oscilloscopes, Signal Generators, Multimeters, Power Supplies LEGO Mindstorms XY positioners Courses on Computer Vision, Electromagnetics use the lab Intro to EE course developed by Cen. SSIS on the lab Visits from home-schoolers, schools, Pre-College Engineering Program Need more space!!!!

Intro to EE Course l l l Developed by Cen. SSIS for the Tools and Toys Lab Freshman course for electrical engineers Emphasizes on introducing EE specialization areas at UPRM l l l l Communications and DSP Power Systems and Power Electronics Control Systems Electronics Applied Electromagnetics 14 students on 1 st year, 28 students on 2 nd and 3 rd years More space in lab = all EE freshmen in course Scholars are selected from the best students in course

Cen. SSIS Scholars Selected from Intro to EE course l Students very active in SLC activities and undergraduate research l Renovated undergraduate student participation in Cen. SSIS l

Undergraduate Research Development and review of educational modules for HTT&T lab l Development of camera mount and data collection l

Outreach l l l Visits to schools Visits to HTT&TL Pre-college Engineering Program (a) Sixth grade students building a circuit by following the electrical Diagram. and (b) one of the ushers (a graduate student) supervising Sixth grade rs trying out the electronic piano. Electro-magnet circuit

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Workshop Achievements K-12: l Created awareness among K-12 students of what is engineering & Motivate them to study engineering. Univ. Students: l These activities are performed with help from university students previously trained as ushers. l University students expressed their enthusiasm and willingness to participate in the activities. Most mentioned that they really enjoyed serving as ushers. Teachers: l Teachers that participated in the Summer Institute expressed that they learned a lot from the experience and plan to integrate some of the concepts in their curriculum

Publications l l Cruz-Pol, Sandra , “Built your Own Electronic Piano Workshop for K-12 students, ” International Conference on Engineering Education ASEE (ICEE), October 16– 21, 2004, Gainesville, FL. Bartolomei S. , and Cruz-Pol S, “An Electrical Engineering Module for Women in Engineering”, Proceeding for the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Nashville, TN, 2003. Cruz Pol, S. and Colom Ustáriz, J. , "A Case Study: High Percentage of Women in Engineering College at UPRM", Wepan Conference 2002, San Juan, PR, June 2002. Colom, …. “’ paper del tools and toy lab”?

Opportunities l Coordination of outreach and educational activities between ERCs (Cen. SSIS, CPES, CASA) l Seminar series