International Inclusive STEM Education
International Inclusive STEM Education (iSTEM)
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International Inclusive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education
- Develop low-cost projects and experiments for classrooms and laboratories.
- Develop on-line courses on the experiments and projects.
- Aim at kindergarten (5 yrs old), grade school, high school, and university students.
- Emphasize inclusive / international programs, STEM for social justice education
About
iSTEM: International Inclusive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education
Children to University Students
This program has two parts, that are integrally related:
- STEM education for children, ages 5-18 (kindergarten - high school, "school-aged")
- STEM education for the university level, undergraduate and graduate students (MS/PhD), called "weLab" (i.e., we all work together to develop laboratories)
Program Emphases: Inclusive, International, Humanitarian
This program is:
- Inclusive of traditionally under-represented groups in STEM, such as girls, women, and under-represented minorities of all types (e.g., indigenous peoples).
- International in that we aim to develop cross-cultural STEM education projects, experiments, and educational experiences via collaboration with partners.
- Humanitarian engineering in some cases (see book by Passino below, a free download).
Project/Experiment Development and Use
There are two parts of the program:
- Sharing existing projects and experiments via this web site. You are free to download instructions and use any project or experiment.
- Developing new STEM projects and experiments at all levels, typically by university students (e.g. capstone design in engineering). Some guidelines for development are at this web site (others are in the book by Passino below).
Project/Experiment Types:
The intent of all experiements is to teach STEM, however, some are directed in the following ways:
- Focus on basic STEM principles.
- Focus on a STEM problem in local industry (e.g., one that students aspire to get a job in).
- Focus on STEM to teach principles of social justice (e.g., STEM for teaching cooperation).
For an explanation of these three cases see the book by Passino below.
References
Castro CM Levy DC (2000) Myth, Reality, and Reform: Higher Education Policy in Latin America, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore
Pappano L (2013) The Boy Genius of Ulan Bator, New York Times, Sept. 16.
For information on international education and humanitarian STEM education, see Chapters 3 and 4 of Passino, "Humanitarian Engineering."
Financial Support
We have obtained either direct financial support, or use of equipment and space, from the following:
Project Start Date:
2002
Intellectual Property and Licensing
This site is governed by the Creative Commons Licencing approach for all content/posts on all pages at this web site, and including this page. More information on how another shared/collaborative design site uses this.
School-Age Experiments
K-12 Projects: Free to Use
- Please see the link below for existing experiments that you are free to use.
- In each case significant information is supplied, enough to replicate the experiment.
Our existing K-12 projects are given via the STEM outreach program by Prof. Betty Lise Anderson at OSU. These projects were developed by OSU students to take to K-12 students and provide real, hands-on engineering activities.
In this experiment, the focus is on programming the Arduino microcontroller, and using the associate kit,to study development and implementation of:
- Traffic light (red, yellow, green lights, timed appropriately).
- Walk button/lights for allowing pedestrians to cross an intersection, coordinated with the traffic lights.
- Street light that it sense when it is light out and turn off, and when it is dark and turn on.
Students are guided from simple programming of a blinking yellow light (caution), through the above increasingly sophisticated programming challenges. Information on the sequence of programming challenges is here (part in Spanish).
Objective: To develop an understanding of what ozone is, its benefits and hazards, and its uses. To perform an experiment on how to measure ground-level ozone, as well as to become knowledgeable about causes of variance and error in experimentation and the mathematics behind these errors.
Information: Click here to download experiment document and slides.
Author: Megan Davidson
University Experiments
Existing Experiments: Free to Use
- Please see the links on the left for existing experiments that you are free to use
- In each case significant information is supplied, enough to replicate the experiment
- Low-cost? In some cases, the experiments are less than a few US dollars, while others are more expensive.
Guidelines for Developing University-Level Experiments:
- Please study existing experiments to see the strategies used to achieve low cost, good learning value, and sophistication for graduate research (e.g., via "modularity" in the planar temperature control experiment how a single zone has value for an undergraduate experiment, but a multi-zone version has value at the graduate level).
- Developing a new version of an existing experiment is good, especially for local use, and if you can lower the cost and/or add improved features.
- It is good to develop experiments that are low-cost and different from ones posted at the site, across all disciplines of engineering
- Low-cost means for materials and software/hardware
- "Experiments" in some cases may not refer to physical equipment, but only software design challenges (e.g., in image processing or computer science).
- Providing information for a post: Please follow the format seen on past posts (e.g, the planar temperature control experiment). All languages are welcome, but if you can provide a post in English that will likely be more broadly accessible across the world.
Also, see the links below for more ideas on low-cost projects:
- OSU Distributed Dynamical Systems Laboratory
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Quijano, N., Finke J., Passino K.M., “Low Cost Laboratories,” Science and Engineering in the Formation of Engineers for the 21st Century: Fundamentals, Strategies, and Cases, ACOFI, Bogotá, Colombia, 2008. To obtain this paper, click here.
Relationships between K-12 experiments and university-level experiments:
- It may be possible to use some of the K-12 experiments for university-level education, especially if they are modified. For example, for the DC motor experiment at Prof. Anderson's site, it is relatively easy to build an optical encoder (out of a paper disk with slots in it, an LED, and a photoreceptor to count blinks and hence rotation amount) to measure the angle of the motor shaft. Then, a control system could be developed for angle position and velocity control.
- It may be possible to make some of the university-level experiments simpler so that they are useful for K-12. For example, this is how the "smart lights" experiment in Prof. Anderson's web site under K-12 was developed; it is a simplified version of the smart lights testbed. In other cases, it requires perhaps less redesign that in the smart lights case (e.g., use of a single zone of the planar temperature control experiment, plus a circuit to implement a proportional controller).
Descripción en Español: WeLab
Los avances tecnológicos han permitido que en la actualidad se encuentren elementos de software y de hardware a bajo costo, los cuales pueden ser utilizados para el desarrollo de laboratorios educativos, sobre todo en las áreas de control y automatización. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos componentes siguen siendo bastante costosos, lo cual impide su adquisición en ciertas universidades a nivel mundial. El objetivo de este proyecto es, por medio de una colaboración conjunta entre varias universidades del orbe, desarrollar laboratorios de bajo costo para educación superior en las áreas de control, automatización y otras áreas de la ingeniería afines a dichos campos de investigación. El desarrollo de dichos laboratorios se realizará por medio de proyectos individuales propuestos y desarrollados por cada una de las universidades gracias a trabajos de grado, tesis o disertaciones de post-grado. Estos proyectos serán luego compartidos con las demás universidades que integran este proyecto. Se espera que los proyectos realizados sean probados en un ámbito educativo antes de compartir la información con las demás personas que integran este grupo. Todo el material, incluyendo esquemáticos detallados, proveedores, costos, detalles de operación, procedimientos de laboratorio, material educativo necesario para la puesta en marcha del proyecto, etc., tendrá que ser suministrado por el grupo de investigación a cargo de dicho proyecto. Se prevé que nuevos laboratorios se desarrollarán de acuerdo a ideas adquiridas de viejos proyectos, y que dichos laboratorios se ajustarán al cambio tecnológico del momento. El énfasis de este proyecto radica en el bajo costo (e.g., menos de $5 USD por planta), pero sin que ello conlleve al detrimento educativo e investigativo. Las universidades se verían aún más favorecidas si dichos experimentos sirven para sus programas de pre-grado y post-grado, y a la vez que pueden ser utilizados en objetivos de investigación de vanguardia.
STEM Education About Wireless Communication Devices: A specific project is to design and implement an electronic communication system, hopefully wireless. The cell/smart phone is the most popular technology in the world. It would be useful to teach people some of the basics in how it works. Even starting with a simply "walkie-talkie" approach would be useful, or a basic approach to communication over wires (i.e., a "landline").
STEM Education About Renewable Energy: There is a need for projects on:
- Solar energy, with applications, for example, to a solar lantern (panel, battery, LED)
- Wind power, with blade, generator, battery
STEM Education About Sustainability: An experiment that would illustrate the "tragedy of the commons"
General Challenges: Key current general challenges are:
- Expanding beyond control systems to all areas of engineering
- Developing experiments that are highly relevant to industry and social problems
- Developing on-line instructional materials (likely starting with instructional videos for individual experiments)
- Better international collaboration (expansion to other countries)
We present several low-cost control system experiments with detailed documentation at this web site.
Description: Two floor model building. Temperature sensors in each room, heaters in each room, 4 rooms per floor, two floors. Configuration with adjustable halls, doors, windows. Four fans that can be put in either doors or windows.
Challenges: Temperature regulation in multiple zones, with interations between zones (proximity of rooms, doors, windows). Disturbances: Ambient temperature, wind through windows, open doors.
Cost: Less than $2/room
Applications: Temperature control for buildings and process control in industry.
People: Jorge Finke and Kevin Passino, OSU, USA
Additional Information:
Quijano N., Gil A.E., Passino K.M., “Experiments for Dynamic Resource Allocation, Scheduling, and Control,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 63-79, Feb. 2005.
Challenges: Learning basic concepts of circuit design and construction; developing skills such as teamwork and problem solving.
Cost: $19
Applications: Educational purposes
People: Ruth Cathers, Vandan Chokshi, Universe Ewunetie, Time Grozier, Valerie Hager, Benjamin McCray, Christa McKelvey, Robert Pesarchick, Zack Rohr, and Nicole Stump.
Challenges: Single motor (gun): Like in an arcade try to eliminate a maximum number of targets as they unpredictably and dynamically "pop-up." Two guns: Coordinated fire control where algorithms are developed to schedule in real-time a sequence of firings so as to maximize the number of points the team gets. Can simulate a communication network (e.g., with random but bounded delays) between the two motors.
Cost: Two motors, driving circuitry, laser pointer components, sensors (we did not do a good job keeping costs down, but there no reason why this cannot be a very low-cost experiment).
Applications: Biological "attentional" systems, scheduling in hierarchical/distributed systems, cooperative control, games.
People: Alvaro Gil, Nicanor Quijano, Undergraduate design team, Sriram Ganapathy, and Kevin Passino, OSU, USA
Additional Information:
Quijano N., Gil A.E., Passino K.M., “Experiments for Dynamic Resource Allocation, Scheduling, and Control,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 63-79, Feb. 2005.
Challenges: Temperature and humidity control.
Cost: $40
Applications: Production facilities for vegetables and flowers.
People: Evan Martin Klingensmith,
Benjamin Andrew Meeks, David Mabior Nicodemus, Michael Raymond Siemer, Steven Mark Wisniewski, Betty Lise Anderson
Additional Information:
The cost of data acquisition (digital to analog conversion and analog to digital conversion) has come down significantly over the years.
Accordions
Challenges: Balancing balls in tubes, trying to allocate air pressure optimally to keep all balls at a uniform height but maximaly elevated. Can study influence of delays/network effects. Disturbances: Noise on the sensor, air turbulence in tube due to spinning fan, air turbulence in manifold. One strategy allows only one fan to lift a ball at a time so it simulates "juggling."
Cost: Less than $40/tube
Applications: Industrial resource allocation problems (e.g., in the oil industry).
People: Alvaro Gil, Undergraduate design team, Nicanor Quijano, and Kevin Passino, OSU, USA
Additional Information:
Publication: Quijano N., Gil A.E., Passino K.M., “Experiments for Dynamic Resource Allocation, Scheduling, and Control,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 63-79, Feb. 2005.
Challenges: Dynamic resource allocation strategies that exploit information from the plant in feedback.
Cost: $85
Applications: Industrial resource allocation problems.
People: Ray Gordon, Kieffer William Gray, Yash Digant Joshi, Guanshun Yu, Longhao Zhang, Betty Lise Anderson, Kevin Passino
Challenges: Circuit design and implementation; Learning basic principles in electromagnetics.
Cost: $10
Applications: Sound applications, music reproduction.
People: Matthew Neil Barr, Josh Branch, Alexander Michael Dangelo, Brandon Gregory Jacques, Eric G Martin, Betty Lise Anderson
Challenges: Open-loop control of a DC motor.
Cost: $5
Applications: Learning basic principles in electromagnetics
People: Pablo Velázquez
Cost: Less than $2/zone.
Applications: Temperature control in industry (e.g., in glass production), control over the internet.
People: Nicanor Quijano and Kevin Passino, OSU, USA
Additional Information:
Quijano N., Gil A.E., Passino K.M., “Experiments for Dynamic Resource Allocation, Scheduling, and Control,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 63-79, Feb. 2005.
Description, challenges, and applications same as the Planar Temperature Control except there are 25 zones and the interface electronics are different.
People: Wilfredo Alfonso Morales, Mario Andrés Muñoz, Eduardo F. Caicedo, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
Description: Argos SCADA is a free software project, created as an open source alternative to commercial SCADAs. Argos is being developed to be run mainly on Linux Operative Systems, this way, releasing the users from any costs associated with licenses. Argos is thought of a tool to communicate with automation devices, such as: PLC, DCS, PAC, PC/104, Arduino boards, among others. Argos has a graphic interface developed with FLTK to make it lighter and its basic tool of configuration is an environment (IDE) based on FLUID.
The project can be found here.
Development of Argos or Development of SCADA Systems Based on Argos
Cost: No cost associated to software, other costs would depend solely on hardware devices used.
Applications: Supervisory control and data acquisition on any kind of process automation.
People: Alejandro Piña Ortega
Accordions
Challenges: Changes in partitions affect coupling, effect of "sun" light bulb creates a disturbance, effective control without communications between the zones.
Cost: Less than $2/zone
Applications: Energy efficient control of lights for residential and commercial buildings.
People: Kevin Schultz, Ted Pavlic, M. Taha Koroglu, Emin Inan, Jose Velasquez, and Kevin Passino, OSU, USA
Additional Information:
Koroglu M.T., and Passino K.M., "Illumination Balancing Algorithm for Smart Lights," IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 557-567, March 2014.
Description: Solar cooking has been around for centuries in a variety of forms. However, only within the past few decades, solar box cookers have been implemented to tackle social and economic issues in developing nations. The benefits of solar cooking make it ideal for individuals with limited resources. These cookers use sunlight; a free and unlimited energy source, eliminate the need to use limited natural resources, and provide a safe and healthy means for people to prepare food. Solar cookers can be very inexpensive to build and maintain, and have become indispensable tools for communities in places like India and China.
Cost: $20
Applications: Pollution-free low-cost cooking.
People: Bill Chuirazzi, Courtney Carraher, Gabby Ciccola, Nicholas Johnson, Aakrit Sanghera
Description: The objective of this project is to create a computer that can ‘sing’ a mathematically defined waveform (e.g. sine wave) using a single speaker, and measure its own voice using a single microphone to attempt to change it to achieve desired features. One of the main challenges in this project is that the system is MIMO (multi-input multi-output). For example, by changing the frequency sent to the speaker, the microphone will detect varying amplitudes during that change.
Challenges: Frequency and amplitude control of signals.
Cost: $0
People: Rayan El Helou
Description:Make and explain the inter-workings of a Stirling engine through piece-by-piece inspection, encouraging the students to think along the lines of cause and reaction between the engines working parts. This lab is based on the fact that we can create this Stirling engine out of really basic, simple materials. Some of the best home built Stirling engines that we discovered online used common objects found around the house like pop cans, soup cans, rubber bands, old balloons, and scrap wood. It will be essential to the students to demonstrate that it doesn’t take a lot of money or fancy equipment to make science a fun and interesting topic. The usage of simple household items will also make it more fiscally possible and desirable from our standpoint. Imagine telling the school board who determines funding that they should purchase a new iPad or some sort of technology to enhance an understanding and desire for scientific learning.
Challenges: Construction of mechanical and electrical devices.
Cost: $25
Applications: Industrial refrigeration, heating and cooling systems.
People: Tedros Resom Berhane, Tim Bodin, David Harper, Chris Bawer, Neil Leonard, Nicholas Liesen, Joshua Miller, and Taylor Schoepf.
Description: Coupled oscillators, modular/reconfigurable "topology" for interconnections of which oscillators are connected together, communications via LEDs
Challenges: Synchronize flashing of lights using limited communications and in presence of component/circuit differences.
Applications: Synchronization in distributed computing systems, connections to coupled biological oscillators in humans (e.g., pacemaker cells) and other animals.
Cost: Less than $3/fire fly
People: Undergraduate design team and Kevin Passino, OSU, USA
Description: Controls courses often focus on the use of digital control. In the learning process, digital control is extremely helpful to aid students in grasping how different control laws and theories can be applied. This is especially noticeable with computing softwares such as MATLAB, where one can create a plant model in MATLAB or even use the transfer function to analyze a plant and create a system. These softwares contain a plethora of functions and tuning capabilities that help simplify and quicken the process of controller design. Sometimes in this process the physical implementation of the controller can become lost. After all, many simple control systems can be simply constructed using resistors and capacitors. Therefore, this project can hopefully be used as an introduction to implementing controls in hardware.
Challenges: Circuit development and design for volume control.
Cost: $11
Applications: Music/sound reproduction.
People: Reham Alshawa and Samantha Moskowitz
Description: This experiment is designed for University-level students with an introductory
background in general chemistry. The experiment aims to give students hands on experience with inorganic synthesis and focus on the
importance of water purification.
Cost: Materials $20
Applications: Water purification
People: Taylor Ourada, Mary Scherer, and Ramon Weldemicael.
Description: The article (Pappano, 2013) illustrates the utility of a suitcase version of laboratory experiments. There are two objectives in this regard:
- Make a standard suitcase of highly portable experiments that can then be easily delivered to an underdeveloped university,
- Create a set of such experiments that someone could choose from suitable to the site to be delivered to, and
- The idea has implications at the K-12 reach out level also.
Source: Pappano L (2013). The Boy Genius of Ulan Bator, New York Times, Sept. 16
Project Trips
Aug 16-19, 2016, focused on Arduino programming for a traffic intersection (lights, streetlights, and walk lights); see the tab under "School-Age Experiments." There were 7 two-hour sessions at underprivileged high schools, and over 120 separate individual-sessions. Assessments by the educators were done.
Educators were: Mario Aleman, Lianna Brown, Brian Cassidy, Diana Duarte, Kevin Everson, Isabel Fernandez, Jorge Finke, Hugo Gonzalez, Kevin Passino, Andrea Paul, Ashley Saba, and Robin Wood.
Guatemala, 2015:
- STEM projects developed Spring 2015
- Team to traveled to work with the NGO Mayan Families in Panajachel in Summer 2015 to teach Mayan children STEM.
Spring Break 2015 Trip: This trip had Profs. Betty Lise Anderson and Kevin Passino leading a student group for a 9-day trip. We had several days in Bogotá,one day for sight-seeing, and otherwise working with Universidad de los Andes (for university-level experiments) and Pequeños Científicos (for school-age experiments).Then, we traveled to Pasto where we worked with Universidad de Nariño (for university-level experiments) and Liceo to teach children and teachers K-12 STEM experiments.
Summer 2014 Assessment Trip: Betty Lise Anderson, Kevin Passino, and Stephanie DeTillio traveled to Bogotá and Pasto to meet people and set up activities for the Spring Break 2015 Trip. We also conducted STEM education pilot programs in Bogotá and Pasto. Click here for a trip report.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali and Universidad del Valle:
In July 2004, Nicanor Quijano, Jorge Finke, and Kevin Passino visited PUJ, gave a short course, and an overview of the laboratory development program. They gave us tours of their facilities and several indicated interest in getting involved in this project (e.g., via the use of our experiments, or by contributing an experiment). Professors from the nearby Universidad del Valle were present and have a number of relevant lab projects. Also, professors from Univ. Santiago de Cali and Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica were present. A picture of the group is below:
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana:
In July 2004 Nicanor Quijano, Jorge Finke, and Kevin Passino also visited UPB in Medellin, gave a short course, and an overview of the laboratory development program. They gave us tours of their facilities and several indicated interest in getting involved in this project.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá:
In Aug. 2004 Nicanor Quijano visited PUJ in Bogotá, gave a technical talk, and an overview of the laboratory development program. They showed significant interest and want to get involved.
Universidad Autónoma de Bogotá:
In Aug. 2004 Nicanor Quijano visited UAB in Bogotá, gave a technical talk, and an overview of the laboratory development program. They showed interest and want to get involved.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras:
In March 2005 Jorge Finke visited UNAH in Tegucigalpa, gave a short course on systems and control, and an overview of the laboratory development program.
Universidad Centro Americana and Universidad Nacional El Salvador, San Salvador:
Kevin Passino promoted the program to these universities in August, 2013 (got interest, but no pictures)
Team
The Current Team: This page lists the current "team" for the project as of 3/13/15. For team members:
- Emails are sent out on project announcements, changes, and progress.
- Team members contribute to all aspects of the project according to their own interests (i.e. you, of course, define your role via what you want to do beyond just getting emails about the project).
Joining the Team: Want to join the team? Send an email to one of the moderators.
Wilfredo Alfonso
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia
wilfredo.alfonso@correounivalle.edu.co
Prof. Betty Lise Anderson (from US)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Bhavik Bakshi (from India)
Dept. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Francisco Arcos
Universidad Autónoma del Caribe
Barranquilla, Colombia
Fabian Benitez-Quiroz (from Colombia)
Graduate Student
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Manuel Betancur
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Medellín, Colombia
Prof. Mireille Broucke (from US)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prof. Eduardo Caicedo
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia
eduardo.caicedo@correounivalle.edu.co
Prof. Jorge Finke
Depto. Ingeniería Electrónica y Ciencias de la Computación
Univ. Javeriana
Cali, Colombia
Prof. Lisa Fiorentini (from Italy)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Veysel Gazi
Istanbul Kemerburgaz University
Istanbul, Turkey
Dr. Alvaro Gil (from Venezuela)
Xerox Corp.
Research Center
Webster, NY
Luis Felipe Giraldo (from Colombia)
Graduate Student
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Hugo J. Gonzalez Villasanti (from Paraguay)
Graduate Student
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
gonzalezvillasanti.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Prof. James Gregory (from US)
Dept. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The Ohio State University
Luis Herrera (from Colombia)
Graduate Student
College of Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Jesús Lopez Alfonso
Facultad de Ingeniería
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
Cali, Colombia
Prof. Manfredi Maggiore (from Italy)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maggie McHugh (from US)
Undergraduate student and ECOS VP for International Projects
Environmental Engineering Major
2015 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
Prof. Humberto Molina
Physics Department
Universidad Centroamericana
San Salvador, El Salvador
Carlos Montoya (from Honduras)
Graduate Student
Dept. Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering
The Ohio State University
montoya-rodriguez.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Christian Moya (from Ecuador)
Graduate Student
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Hazem Nounou (from Palestine)
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Prof. Raúl Ordoñez (from Ecuador)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio
raul.ordonez@notes.udayton.edu
Prof. Andrés Pantoja
Departamento de Electrónica
Universidad de Nariño
Pasto, Colombia
Dr. Ted Pavlic (from US)
School of Biological Sciences
Arizona State University
Alejandro J. Piña Ortega (from Venezuela)
Graduate Student
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Andrés Pantoja
Universidad de Nariño
Pasto, Colombia
Prof. Kevin M. Passino (from US)
College of Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Nicanor Quijano
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica
Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
Prof. Keith Redmill (from US)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Andrea Serrani (from Italy)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prof. Angel Terrones
Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
Prof. Wladimiro Villarroel (from Venezuela)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Jose Velasquez Garrido (from Venezuela, OSU ECE Alum)
Dematic, Grand Rapids, MI
velasquez-garrido.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Carlos A. Viteri (from Pasto, Colombia, Univ. de Nariño)
Graduate Student
The Ohio State University
Moderators
Moderated Web Site
This is not a "public web site" where anyone can log in, fully edit the site, and make contributions (e.g., a Wiki). Study the contributions and format of what is given (e.g., the fact that often all details on how to construct projects or experiments are shared), then propose to one of the following moderators a post. In your email be sure to include information like given in other posts here, and if you want you can simply provide a link to your own site, but in that case please provide a short explanation of what you have done along with the link, and a high resolution digital photo of the experiment. The current moderators are:
- Prof. Betty Lise Anderson, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, anderson.67@osu.edu
- Prof. Jorge Finke, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana, Cali, Colombia, finke@ieee.org
- Prof. Andrés Pantoja, Universidad de Nariño, Pasto, Colombia, ad_pantoja@udenar.edu.co
- Prof. Kevin M. Passino, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, passino.1@osu.edu
- Prof. Raúl Ordoñez, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA, rordonez1@udayton.edu
- Prof. Nicanor Quijano, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, nquijano@uniandes.edu.co
Resources
The following sites have information on STEM education and experiments:
- Humanitarian STEM education (H-STEM) (see Chapter 4 in the book)
- The fischertechnik STEM Lab Programs
- Science laboratories at Tekla Labs.
- Engineering World Health has a catalog of STEM experiments related to biomedical engineering.
- Toys from Trash