Conference Session

Best Paper, Best Diversity Paper

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maija A Benitz, Roger Williams University

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Ocean and Marine

experiential learning, which share similar benefits, but are alsochallenged by the current pandemic. Experiential learning often entails group work, interactionwith technical equipment, and collaboration with individuals outside of our campus. These typesof activities have become more difficult as we’ve entered an era of social distancing, remotelearning, and other COVID-19 safety protocols.These teaching and learning strategies are being employed and assessed both inside and outsideof the classroom. One approach from outside the classroom is student participation in inter-university design competitions which provides opportunities for hands-on, team-based workwhich motivates and enhances soft skills development [1], [5]. Service learning, or

Conference Session

Microsoft Teams, Deep Learning, and Classroom Flipping

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College; Alexandru Belu

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

shorter. In some emerging technologies thelifetime of a new technique may be less than three years. However, basic skills and knowledgelike mathematics, physics and technical disciplines are still fundamental, while the soft skills likecommunication, team-work, and project management are becoming more and more important.Renewable energy technologies are highly interdisciplinary and are crossing over severalengineering fields making quite difficult to be fully covered in a single course [6, 9- 12].However, renewable energy engineering has a great potential to attract students from allengineering programs and for multi-disciplinary projects, involving electrical, mechanical, civil,and chemical engineering aspects while still being accessible to