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2015 SyracuseCoE Symposium

The 2015 SyracuseCoE Symposium was held November 9-10th. The year’s symposium theme “Clean Energy Frontiers: From Lab to Market” highlighted innovations that optimize clean energy and its utilization in buildings, data centers, and neighborhood-scale districts.

The first day featured a student poster competition. Our research group had four posters on display that summarized recent findings from our green roof and urban runoff projects. Mallory Squier’s poster won second place in the PhD division. Congrats, Mallory!!

 

COE 15th Annual Symposium 2015 Clean Energy Frontiers From Lab To Market Poster Competition
COE 15th Annual Symposium 2015 Clean Energy Frontiers From Lab To Market Poster Competition

 

COE 15th Annual Symposium 2015 Clean Energy Frontiers From Lab To Market Poster Competition
COE 15th Annual Symposium 2015 Clean Energy Frontiers From Lab To Market Poster Competition

 

COE 15th Annual Symposium 2015 Clean Energy Frontiers From Lab To Market Poster Competition
COE 15th Annual Symposium 2015 Clean Energy Frontiers From Lab To Market Poster Competition

 

COE 15th Annual Symposium 2015 Clean Energy Frontiers From Lab To Market Poster Competition
Mallory Squier (center) receiving her award

All photo credits: Stephen Sartori, sourced from collage.syr.edu

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

I traveled to Bridgeport, CT for the 2014 Zone 1 Conference for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), hosted by the University of Bridgeport. The goals of this conference include enhancing teaching methods and curricula and providing prime networking opportunities for faculty members, students and industry and government representatives. I was presenting a paper on my educational research project entitled “Engineering Student Misconceptions about
Rate and Accumulation Processes: Preliminary Evidence for the Development of the Rate and Accumulation Concept Inventory.

University of BridgeportStudent poster session

The conference included were numerous tracks of student and professional paper sessions and a student poster session. Since I was traveling to another conference on that same weekend, I was only able to attend a few sessions and the keynote address on Friday morning. I was very impressed by the other students in my session. One student presented on developing was to improve to virtual classroom experiences, and another student was working in high school physics classes to get students involved with computer programming at an early age (using the R language, no less).

While my project is focused on the assessment stage of identifying misconceptions, a room full of educators couldn’t help but focus on suggesting ways to improve student learning, i.e. the intervention stage. Some of the ideas we discussed included using peer-to-peer teaching, flipping the classroom, and gamification. I’ve thought about many of these innovative teaching methods before, and we’re even trying out a few new activities and lectures this year without formally integrating them into the project. It would be a large undertaking but important step to begin thinking about using some of these methods extensively in STEM classes in order to foster a greater depth of conceptual understanding in engineering students.

 

 

2013 Syracuse Center of Excellence Annual Symposium

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From top right to bottom left:  Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, US EPA; Nancy Grimm, Director, Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Program; Panel with Lisa Garcia, US EPA, Judith Enck, Regional Administrator, US EPA Region 2, Andrew M. Maxwell, Director of Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency, Syracuse, NY; Matthew J. Millea, Deputy County Executive for Physical Services, Onondaga County, NY; and Sherburne Abbott, Vice President for Sustainability Initiatives, Syracuse University

 

The 13th Annual Syracuse Center of Excellence Symposium took place on October 21-22. There were numerous impressive talks throughout the program, including a keynote talk by Bob Perciasepe and a featured talk by Nancy Grimm. Mallory presented a talk entitled “The Oncenter Green Roof: Water Mass Balance on a Large Extensive Green Roof,” and Carli presented a talk entitled “Green Infrastructure in Onondaga County and the Diffusion of Sustainable Stormwater Management Technologies.” Both were well received and created a lot of discussion afterwards.

Professor Davidson at the keynote talk
Professor Davidson at the keynote talk
Doctoral student Mallory Squier presenting recent work on the OnCenter green roof
Doctoral student Mallory Squier presenting recent work on the OnCenter green roof

 

The symposium also featured a student poster competition, in which several of our undergraduate researchers entered. JB won 3rd place in the undergraduate division for her poster featuring some of the heat flow monitoring on the OnCenter green roof. Great job, JB

Undergraduate Joey DiStefano presenting his poster on lysimeter design for the OnCenter green roof
Undergraduate Joey DiStefano presenting his poster on lysimeter design for the OnCenter green roof

 

JB Ahmad pictured with other winners of this years student poster competition
JB Ahmad pictured with other winners of this years student poster competition

 

Photo credits: Stephen Sartori, Syracuse University; Caitlin Eger, Syracuse CoE