ECEDHA Lab Pros Network Summit: December 2020

Join us for a brief introduction to the ECEDHA Summit Series.

 

Featuring:

Sid Deliwala
Director of ESE Labs
University of Pennsylvania
Sid has been the Director of Lab Programs in the Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) Department for over two decades. His experience includes managing lab programs, developing unique courses that encourage student engagement in their academic career and teaching undergraduates. He also manages state of the art undergraduate teaching classroom+lab facilities [C-Labs], Detkin, Ketterer and Simmons Labs. Sid enjoys working with students and continues to teach summer high school programs (Pre-freshmen Program and M&T Summer Institute), ESE 111 (ESE Freshmen Course), ESE 190 (Silicon Garage), Coursera Robotics Specialization (capstone) and ESE Capstone (ESE 450/451 Senior Design) in Fall and Spring semester. He is also an active participant in ECEDHA conference and co-leads the Technology Program at ECEDHA. Sid graduated with bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology in 1991 and a master’s degree from Drexel University in 1995.

 

This panel of ECE lab professionals and educators look back on the experience of conducting lab courses over the past several months, and look ahead to their plans for the next term. Topics considered include operating labs in a pandemic, learning/diversity issues and lab administration.

 

Moderator:

Sid Deliwala
Director of ESE Labs
University of Pennsylvania
Sid has been the Director of Lab Programs in the Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) Department for over two decades. His experience includes managing lab programs, developing unique courses that encourage student engagement in their academic career and teaching undergraduates. He also manages state of the art undergraduate teaching classroom+lab facilities [C-Labs], Detkin, Ketterer and Simmons Labs. Sid enjoys working with students and continues to teach summer high school programs (Pre-freshmen Program and M&T Summer Institute), ESE 111 (ESE Freshmen Course), ESE 190 (Silicon Garage), Coursera Robotics Specialization (capstone) and ESE Capstone (ESE 450/451 Senior Design) in Fall and Spring semester. He is also an active participant in ECEDHA conference and co-leads the Technology Program at ECEDHA. Sid graduated with bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology in 1991 and a master’s degree from Drexel University in 1995.

Panelists:

Philip Asare
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
University of Toronto
Professor Philip Asare a teaching stream faculty member in U of T Engineering’s Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP) and the Division of Engineering Science (EngSci). Previously, he was Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University, and before that spent time as a scholar-in residence at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration while earning his PhD in computer engineering from the University of Virginia. His approach to engineering and engineering education focuses on viewing engineering as a human activity, and the implication of this perspective for engineering education and practice. A significant theme of Philip’s teaching and projects focuses on how we educate engineers to operate in the complex socio-technical world, particularly how we create an engineering community that is diverse, inclusive, and equitable and the related benefits for society of such an engineering community.

Shawn Jordan
Associate Professor of Engineering
Arizona State University
Shawn Jordan is an associate professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education.
Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award entitled “CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and “Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant “Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s “20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017.

Casey Smith
Assistant Director Instructional Support
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Casey Smith is the Assistant Director of Instructional Support in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He manages 20 instructional labs spanning the ECE department curriculum including the ECE Open Lab, a creative makerspace for students across campus. Prior to joining the department in 2014 he was the Senior Design Engineer at Opal Kelly Inc. and a Research Engineer at the University of Chicago Engineering Center. Casey has a BS in Computer Engineering and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working towards a Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction exploring technologies for improving student cross-disciplinary collaboration and knowledge awareness.

Partnerships with industry have taken on an added dimension as we all learn to operate in virtual spaces. This panel of industry leaders considers their role in preparing students for the challenges of a virtual work environment while maintaining effective teams and sustaining innovation.

 

Moderators:

Sid Deliwala
Director of ESE Labs
University of Pennsylvania
Sid has been the Director of Lab Programs in the Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) Department for over two decades. His experience includes managing lab programs, developing unique courses that encourage student engagement in their academic career and teaching undergraduates. He also manages state of the art undergraduate teaching classroom+lab facilities [C-Labs], Detkin, Ketterer and Simmons Labs. Sid enjoys working with students and continues to teach summer high school programs (Pre-freshmen Program and M&T Summer Institute), ESE 111 (ESE Freshmen Course), ESE 190 (Silicon Garage), Coursera Robotics Specialization (capstone) and ESE Capstone (ESE 450/451 Senior Design) in Fall and Spring semester. He is also an active participant in ECEDHA conference and co-leads the Technology Program at ECEDHA. Sid graduated with bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology in 1991 and a master’s degree from Drexel University in 1995.

 

Students completing their senior design requirement have faced the additional challenge of conducting much of the work remotely this year. This panel discusses adaptations made to accommodate these conditions at different institutions, along with their expectations when projects conclude in the spring.

 

Moderator:

Stephen E. Johnson
President
Digilent Inc.
Steve is currently the Director of Marketing for R&D Applications, Portfolio Business Unit, National Instruments and the President of Digilent Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Instruments. Steve is a 20-year veteran of National Instruments, holding senior management positions in R&D, sales, and marketing departments before becoming the leader of the Digilent subsidiary in 2014. Prior to joining NI, he held various positions in engineering, product development, and management with technology companies including Hewlett-Packard, General Scanning, and AstroNova. Steve is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

 

 

 

Panelists:

Ramsin Khoshabeh
Director, ECE Makerspace
University of California, San Diego
Bio to come.











John Peeples
Professor, ECE
The Citadel
Dr. John Peeples' scholarly interests span a broad range of physical electronics, from novel techniques of cooling high performance electronics, to emerging methods of energy conversion. John earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from The Citadel. Upon completing a tour of duty in the USAF, he entered graduate study at the University of South Carolina where he earned a MSEE and PhD in Electrical Engineering. After 25 years in the computer industry, Dr. Peeples returned to his alma mater to teach electrical and computer engineering.
Dr. Peeples served as The Citadel ECE Department Head for 12 years and as the President of ECEDHA, the North American Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head Association in 2015. He has written numerous technical papers, journal articles and two book chapters, and holds two US patents. Effective January 1, 2015, he was appointed by Governor Nikki Haley to serve on the South Carolina Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. In this capacity Dr. Peeples helps develop and promote legislation governing the engineering profession, and with his fellow board members adjudicates disciplinary cases concerning the profession of engineering. Dr. Peeples teaches at all levels including graduate courses. His emphasis areas including the two-semester senior capstone experience, solid state electronic devices and energy systems engineering.

David Vallancourt
Senior Lecturer, Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
David Vallancourt is Senior Lecturer in Circuits and Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. He received the BS (1981), MS (1983), and PhD (1987) degrees from Columbia, and was an Assistant Professor in SEAS until joining Bell Labs in 1992. Dr. Vallancourt's focus at Bell Labs and subsequent positions at Texas Instruments, Vitesse Semiconductor, and PMC-Sierra was analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design for communications applications, for which he was awarded a dozen patents. In 2005 Dr. Vallancourt returned to Columbia where he teaches introductory courses in electrical engineering for engineers and for non-engineers, electronics, and laboratory courses including the senior “capstone” project lab. He created and teaches The Art of Engineering (AoE) course, the SEAS-wide introduction to engineering for all first year students. Dr. Vallancourt has received the Engineering School Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award and Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award.

Joseph Zambreno
Professor and Associate Chair, ECE
Iowa State University
Joseph A. Zambreno has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University since 2006, where he is currently a Professor, Associate Chair, and director of the Reconfigurable Computing Lab (RCL). Prior to joining ISU he was at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, where he graduated with his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2006, his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002, and his B.S. degree summa cum laude in Computer Engineering in 2001. While at Northwestern University, Dr. Zambreno was a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, a Northwestern University Graduate School Fellowship, a Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, and the EECS department Best Dissertation Award for his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Compiler and Architectural Approaches to Software Protection and Security." He is a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2012), as well as the ISU award for Early Achievement in Teaching (2012), the College of Engineering Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award (2019), and the ECpE department's Warren B. Boast undergraduate teaching award (2009, 2011, 2016).

 

The great distance learning experiment is sweeping the nation’s colleges and universities. The Minority Serving Institutions that make up the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC) are uniquely positioned to rapidly capture the experiences of minority engineering students and their instructors. This session reviews results from a study of how they have adapted to online learning environments in electrical and computer engineering courses during the current crisis.

 

Moderator:

Kenneth Connor
Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and engineering education onsultant. Research involves the application of particle beam based diagnostics to plasmas of interest to the thermonuclear fusion community, high frequency wave phenomena, photonics, instrumentation, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning.


 

Panelists:

Kathy Gullie
Owner Evaluator
Gullie Consultant Services

Dr. Kathy Gullie and her associates at Gullie Consultant Services LLC have been in education, assessment, program development and evaluation for over 30 years. A former New York State teacher for 36 years, Dr. Gullie is committed to the improvement of education for students in all areas., Along with members of the team, Gullie Consultant Services LLC. has served as external evaluators for school districts, federal and state agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and institutions of higher education in New York State, as well as from around the country. Some of our past clients include: The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, The New York State Department of Education, New York State VESID, State University of New York at Albany/SUNY, the State University of New York at Binghamton/SUNY, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Howard University, Morgan University and New York City Board of Education. Based in the Capital Region, Gullie Consultants Services LLC., is a small consultancy, working directly with school districts and colleges/universities in multiple states and regions. A registered Woman Owned Business (WOB), Gullie Consultant Services LLC., prides itself on delivering high-quality program evaluations, data collection and analysis to its clients.

Kofi Nyarko
Associate Professor, ECE
Morgan State University

Dr. Nyarko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University (MSU). He also serves as Director of the Engineering Visualization Research Laboratory (EVRL). He has conducted research for MSU since 2005, consecutively under the titles of Research Engineer, Director, and finally Associate Professor. As a Research Engineer, Dr. Nyarko worked under the Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics consortium (CIBAC) with engineers at NASA Langley on various projects involving aviation safety. Under his direction, the Engineering Visualization Research Laboratory has acquired and conducted research funded from the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Army Research Laboratory, NASA and Department of Homeland Security along with other funding from Purdue University's Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE), a DHS Center of Excellence. After receiving his doctorate from Morgan State University, Dr. Nyarko worked as an independent Software Engineer with contracts involving computational engineering, scientific/engineering simulation & visualization, visual analytics, complex computer algorithm development, computer network theory, machine learning, mobile software development, and avionic system software development. He also served as Adjunct Faculty for University of Baltimore's Department of Science, Information Arts and Technologies.

Dean Spaulding
Evaluator
Gullie Consultant Services

Bio to come.


Rebecca Zarch
SageFox Consulting Group

Rebecca Zarch has spent the last 15 years evaluating projects supporting young adults moving through STEM pathways and workforce development projects. She particularly loves projects that involve complex organizational change, the infusion of innovation and entrepreneurship into the educational environment, and those that promote underrepresented groups in the STEM fields. Much of Rebecca's work focuses on computer science education projects. Her work is typically based at community colleges and graduate school programs. Rebecca received her MBA in nonprofit management at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and her M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

This session shares an update on Project RECET, an online repository for Remote ECE Teaching. Online and online compatible techniques for teaching ECE courses at the undergraduate and continuing education levels have been developed and researched for years, but they are still not widely deployed. The COVID-19 pandemic forced virtually every ECE program in the US online within a short period of time during the Spring 2020 semester. With an initial focus on introductory analog and digital circuits, Project RECET provides a resource for faculty in need of materials for online instruction.

 

Moderator:

Daniel Stancil
Alcoa Distinguished Professor and Department Head, ECE
North Carolina State University
Daniel D. Stancil is the Alcoa Distinguished Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. His early interest in radios and electronics launched an engineering career that has been--and continues to be--fun and rewarding. Along the way he picked up engineering degrees from Tennessee Tech (B.S.E.E.) and MIT (S.M., E.E. and Ph.D.). He has spent many years as a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at both Carnegie Mellon University and NC State. While at CMU he served as Associate Head of the ECE Department, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. He has been Department Head at NC State since 2009.

 

Panelists:

Kenneth Connor
Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and engineering education onsultant. Research involves the application of particle beam based diagnostics to plasmas of interest to the thermonuclear fusion community, high frequency wave phenomena, photonics, instrumentation, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning.






Michael Devetsikiotis
Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
University of New Mexico

Michael Devetsikiotis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the Dipl. Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Broadband Networks Laboratory at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. He later became an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in 1995, an Assistant Professor in 1996 and an Associate Professor in 1999. Michael joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State as an Associate Professor, in 2000, and became a Professor in 2006. He served as the coordinator of the Masters of Science in Computer Networking until 2011 when he became the ECE Director of Graduate Programs. His research work has resulted in 37 published refereed journal articles, 119 refereed conference papers, and 58 invited presentations, in the area of design and performance evaluation of communication networks, telecommunications, and complex socio-technical systems. Devetsikiotis has a special interest in efficient simulation and rare event modeling techniques, and in analyzing complex systems, ranging from high-speed networks to wireless resource allocation, to collaboration technologies, to smart grid infrastructure, and to intelligent buildings and electric vehicles.

 

The panel will consist of a small but representative group of ECE students from member institutions across the country. The students will tell of their experiences with remote instruction, in both the Spring and Fall of 2020. The students will share the different styles of lectures, discussions and group work, office hours, labs, and assessments/evaluations that they found to be the most and least successful.

 

Moderator:

Elizabeth Zidar
Junior, ECE
Northwestern University
Elizabeth Zidar is in her third year at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, studying Electrical Engineering. This summer, she worked remotely as an intern for ECEDHA and helped build the ECE Lab Pros Network. Elizabeth has been happy to share her experience with the jump to online learning, and she is very excited to co-chair this panel of other ECE students to discuss the variety of impacts this change has had on education as a whole.

 

Panelists:

Sadiyah Bhuria
Senior
University of Central Florida
Sadiyah Bhuria is a Computer Engineering student, graduating Fall 2020. She currently works as an Undergraduate Learning Assistant and Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Central Florida. Upon graduating, Sadiyah looks forward to pursuing her Masters in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, beginning Spring 2020. Sadiyah has loved working with computers since she was a child. She is an International student and loves the education in the United States; her specific focus is mostly on Machine Learning. In the future, Sadiyah looks forward to working with software companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.



Katie (Katelyn) Brinker
Second Year PhD Student
Iowa State University
Katelyn Brinker is a PhD student in electrical engineering at Iowa State University (ISU) supported by a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF). In 2017 she earned dual B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) and in 2019 she earned her M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Missouri S&T. Her research at the ISU Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) involves developing wireless passive microwave sensors for materials characterization and structural health monitoring applications. In conjunction to being a Graduate Research Assistant, she works as a Pathways Intern at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In terms of volunteer work, she currently serves as a Student Governor to the IEEE-HKN Board of Governors and as the Graduate Student Representative to the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society AdCom. She is also the winner of the 2017 IEEE-HKN Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Student Award and the 2017 DiscoverE New Faces of Engineering – IEEE-USA award.


Cailyn Crowley
Super Senior (9th Semester)
Missouri University S&T
Cailyn Crowley is dual major at Missouri University of Science and Technology studying Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. She is currently the President of the Gamma Theta Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu and will be graduating December 2020.








Jan Iglesias Morales
Senior
University of Central Florida
Jan Iglesias Morales is a senior Computer Engineering student at the University of Central Florida with a passion for embedded systems and software development. He is the current president of the IEEE HKN chapter at UCF, Zeta Chi. Jan will be graduating December 2020 and will begin his professional career at Texas Instruments as an Applications Engineer.







Hannah Schroeder
Senior
University of Houston
Hannah Schroeder is a senior Electrical Engineering major at the
University of Houston, with a concentration in computers and embedded systems. Hannah is the President of the IEEE-HKN Epsilon Epsilon chapter, which was recently reinstated in Fall 2019, and has guided the chapter through its first two semesters of inducting students and hosting events. Outside of her studies, Hannah is also active in the Honors Club Theater group, having written two short plays and acted in three, and has a strong appreciation for the creative and liberal arts.


 

 

Lab courses present a special challenge under COVID-19 restrictions. While some schools have been able to manage capacity constraints and allow limited student access to labs, most students are dealing with virtual labs to some degree. This session addresses managing virtual labs during the COVID era.

 

Moderator:

Sid Deliwala
Director of ESE Labs
University of Pennsylvania
Sid has been the Director of Lab Programs in the Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) Department for over two decades. His experience includes managing lab programs, developing unique courses that encourage student engagement in their academic career and teaching undergraduates. He also manages state of the art undergraduate teaching classroom+lab facilities [C-Labs], Detkin, Ketterer and Simmons Labs. Sid enjoys working with students and continues to teach summer high school programs (Pre-freshmen Program and M&T Summer Institute), ESE 111 (ESE Freshmen Course), ESE 190 (Silicon Garage), Coursera Robotics Specialization (capstone) and ESE Capstone (ESE 450/451 Senior Design) in Fall and Spring semester. He is also an active participant in ECEDHA conference and co-leads the Technology Program at ECEDHA. Sid graduated with bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology in 1991 and a master’s degree from Drexel University in 1995.
 

Panelists:

Fred Beyette
Professor and School Chair, ECE
University of Georgia
Fred Beyette is the founding chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Georgia College of Engineering. Over the past decade, Beyette’s research has focused on developing point-of-care devices for medical and health monitoring applications - including devices that guide the diagnosis and treatment of acute neurologic emergencies such and stroke and traumatic brain injury. His work has resulted in 12 patent applications. Prior to joining the UGA faculty in 2017, Beyette served as a professor of electrical engineering and computing systems at the University of Cincinnati.
Beyette earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering at Colorado State University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, he joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati in 1996. In addition to his duties as a professor, Beyette has served as associate department head for electrical engineering and as graduate program coordinator. He has trained 55 students at the master’s, doctoral and fellow levels and has mentored more than 125 undergraduate research/senior design students.

Bruce Kothmann
Senior Lecturer
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Kothmann is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has received numerous teaching prizes, including the 2012 Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He is an avid user of laboratory and interactive teaching spaces. Before coming to Penn, Dr. Kothmann worked in the Flying Qualities group at Boeing Rotorcraft in Philadelphia. He designed fly-by-wire control laws for the RAH-66 Comanche, V-22 Osprey, and CH-47 Chinook. He has been a regular invited lecturer at the US Navy Test Pilot School for more than a decade and earned his PhD from Princeton University.





Rick Kuhlman
Head of Product - Initial State
Tektronix
Rick served as Head of Product and CTO of multiple IoT companies - most recently at Initial State, an IoT web dashboard system, acquired by Tektronix in 2018. Before that, Rick served as the Director of Product at Invodo, an ecommerce video company. He started his career at National Instruments where he served on the LabVIEW product team for FPGA and embedded software.




Wilson Lee
Education Market Segment Lead
Tektronix
Wilson Lee is Education Market Segment Lead at Tektronix. Wilson has over 25 years of technical marketing, technical sales leadership roles with manufacturers such as CTS Electronic Components, as well technical/value-add distributors such as Richardson RFPD and Premier Farnell. Wilson has focused on on-line learning communities such as Element 14 that nurture crowd learning, and design engineer engagement. Wilson’s other areas of focused experience is technology advancement and adaption within the RF/Wireless, Industrial Power, and Industrial Automation market segments. Wilson earned his Bachelors of Science Degree at Cornell University. He has lived in New York, Chicago and Asia through his career and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.


Mario Leone
Technologist
Rowan University
Mr. Leone provides support and guidance in the ECE labs, designing, building, and setting up lab experiments for classes, research projects, and clinic projects, as well as assisting students with their project needs. He maintains the lab equipment, acquires materials to support student and faculty projects, designs and delivers courses on lab safety, instrument operation, and other lab and technical procedures and processes, including how to take designs from paper to reality. Mr. Leone is an engineering consultant bringing 35+ years of industry experience to our department, both technical and business. His main areas of expertise are data communications, process control and automation. As atechnologist, entrepreneur, and business owner he helps guide Rowan students on the myriad of aspects of the technical world beyond the classroom. In addition, Mr. Leone has served and continues to serve on numerous industry standards committees (EIA, IEEE, CEA) as a subject matter expert, and his current committee work involves standardizing communications for the IoT (Internet of Things) and devices in the consumer space.

Dominik May
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
Dr. May is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Transformations Institute. He researches online and intercultural engineering education. His primary research focus lies on the development, introduction, practical use, and educational value of online laboratories (remote, virtual, and cross-reality) and online experimentation in engineering instruction. In his work, he focuses on developing broader educational strategies for the design and use of online engineering equipment, putting these into practice and provide the evidence base for further development efforts. Moreover, Dr. May is developing instructional concepts to bring students into international study contexts so that they can experience intercultural collaboration and develop respective competences.
Dr. May is Vice President of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), which is an international non-profit organization to encourage the wider development, distribution, and application of Online Engineering (OE) technologies and its influence on society. Furthermore, he serves as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) intending to promote the interdisciplinary discussion of engineers, educators, and engineering education researchers around technology, instruction, and research. Dr. May has organized several international conferences in the Engineering Education Research field. He is currently program co-chair and international program committee member for the annual International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV) and served as a special session committee member for the Experiment@ International Conference Series (exp.at).