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his paper focuses on the strategies of implementing different methods to increase the student’s engagement in online classes and innovative ways to educate engineering students. As COVID-19 has taken over the World for the past one year, all the education has been moved to online world. As engineering courses are different, it requires students to be in lab and work with electronic components, micro-controllers, and other equipment’s. It has been difficult for the students and as well as the professors to be focused in the class and have better education and results out of it. Students are usually frustrated, lost and give up due to the time limit and constraints. The methodologies implemented has vastly improvised the outcome of students and as well as a teachers work. The methods implemented has shown that 1. Students were engaged in class; 2. Output of course results were positive; 3. Students were working as a team; 4. Students came up with innovative ways to do the class work; 5. Manage time well; 6. Find different ways of solving problems while working in a group. The same strategies were also implemented during summer research program which has proven to be beneficial to students and as well as the high-school teachers. The students who were in different Countries due to COVID-19 has had beneficial outcome even after being in different time zones. This strategies will also be implemented in research laboratory to see the effects of it and how it can improvised further.more » « less
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The Smart City Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) (SCR2) Mega-Site program, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (#1849454), was formed in 2018 to address the low participation and graduation rates of post-secondary students belonging to underrepresented minority groups in the engineering field. The participating schools in the program are all minority serving and members of a consortium consisting of 14 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and 1 Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), where Morgan State University (MSU) serves as the lead institution. The program targets lower division underperforming REU students who are less likely to have the opportunity to participate in research as undergraduates. Participation in this type of experience has been demonstrated to be transformative and to have the potential to increase retention and graduation rates at these institutions. RET participants are recruited from local community colleges and high schools that serve as feeder schools to the consortium institutions. These teachers are responsible for preparing students who could potentially be interesting in pursuing a college major in engineering by exposing them to hands-on engineering design practices. Over the last two years of the program’s existence, 61 students and 24 teachers have successfully participated. As with most 2020 summer programs, the SCR2 program was challenged by the novel corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic, which hit the United states during the recruitment period of the project. Consequently, the project leadership team decided to offer the summer program remotely (on-line) rather than bring students to the participating three campuses across which the program is distributed. The planning and execution of the program during a global pandemic has brought key insights into techniques, methods, and technologies for effective cross-site communication, faculty advisor/mentor involvement, participant engagement, and leveraging the strong network that connects the participating schools. Essentially, a multi-site remote only combined REU/RET program is efficacious in increasing participant’s confidence, knowledge and desire to pursue further engineering research experiences. This paper presents these insights along with supporting program evaluation findings.more » « less
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null (Ed.)A microstrip bandstop filter (BSF) based on an optimum BSF is presented. The original BSF has three open stubs. One narrow stub is attached onto the left open stub, and the length of the right open stub is reduced to form the new BSF. The filter is simulated on Sonnet Lite software. Simulation results show the new filter generates a wider stopband without increasing the circuit size.more » « less