Grants for the Advancement of Teaching Engineering (GATE)
Now in its 7th year, the GATE program supports committed efforts at identifying and solving problems in the context of the undergraduate classroom experience for engineering students. We are continuing to urge participants to consider the question: are we doing the best we know how to do?
GATE supports initiatives that investigate what happens in the classroom, how it affects instruction and student learning, and how it can be enhanced. We will consider projects ranging from the scholarship of teaching to practical implementation of teaching methods. In general, we anticipate a majority of the supported projects will have a direct impact in the classroom.
2014-2015 GATE Projects
| Instructors and Departments | Project Title |
| James Allison: Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering |
Advancing Undergraduate Design Learning Through Extensive Use of Hands-On Model-Based Design Projects |
| Geoffrey Herman, Brian Faulkner, and David Varodayan: Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Exploring the Creation of Effective Instructional Text |
| Andrew Smith, Paul Selvin, and Jenny Amos Bioengineering |
A New Lab on Statistical Mechanics of Molecules and Cells |
| Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas and Rebecca Reck: Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering |
Introduction of Portable Laboratory Kits into the General Engineering Introduction to Control Systems Course |