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How A Higher Education Aviation Faculty Perceived The Challenges Of An Online Emergency Transition During The Covid-19 Pandemic And Identifies Recommendations For Future Emergency Online Transitions, Victor Miguel Fraticelli Rivera

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this case study is to discover the perceived challenges and identify future recommendations for emergency online learning transition as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic at a major aeronautical higher education institution in the southeast region of the United States. For this study, emergency online learning transition is defined as the period in which higher education faculty members were required to pivot to an online methodology in response to a global pandemic in the spring and fall academic semesters of 2020. The theories guiding this study are the theory of planned behavior (TPB) by Icek Ajzen and …

Preparing Undergraduates For The Post-Pandemic Workplace: Teams Of Education And Engineering Students Teach Engineering Virtually, Kristie S. Gutierrez, Jennifer Kidd, Min J. Lee, Krishnanand Kaipa, Orlando Ayala

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

When schools and universities across the world transitioned online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed+gineering, a National Science Foundation (NSF) project that partners engineering and education undergraduates to design and deliver engineering lessons to elementary students, also had to shift its hands-on lessons to a virtual format. Through the lens of social cognitive theory (SCT), this study investigates engineering and education students’ experiences during the shift to online instruction to understand how they perceived its influence on their learning. As a result of modifying their lessons for online delivery, students reported learning professional skills, including skills for teaching online and …

What Do Undergraduate Engineering Students At The Onset Of Emergency Hybrid Learning During Covid-19 Say About Peer Mentorship?, Darcie Christensen, Idalis Villanueva

Integrated Engineering Department Publications

This complete research paper addresses the perceptions of undergraduate engineering students during the onset of the worldwide pandemic (COVID-19) in an engineering college at a western institution of the United States. Specifically, these students were asked about their perceived needs around peer mentorship amidst pivoting between hybrid and in-person learning at the onset of COVID-19.

Mentorship is defined as the interaction between two individuals whose goal is to help one another in psychosocial matters, support personal and professional growth, and provide career guidance. Generally, there are two main types of mentorships recognized: traditional and peer. Traditional mentorship involves a mentor …

Covid-19_Umaine News_Umaine Students Get Immersive Experience In Engineering Education, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine News press release regarding Asli Sezen-Barrie, associate professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development redesigning her class on Teaching Science in the Secondary School to provide more opportunities for preservice teachers at UMaine to learn about engineering concepts and meet with engineers.

Covid-19_Umaine News_Kirkmann Speaks With Wabi About Student Construction Projects At Leonard’S Mill, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine in the News regarding Meredith Kirkmann, University of Maine assistant professor of Construction Engineering Technology (CET), about the outdoor projects senior CET students are working on at the Maine Forest and Logging Museum's Leonard's Mills.

Covid-19_Umaine News_Virtual Groundbreaking For Ferland Engineering Education And Design Center, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of Maine News release regarding the virtual groundbreaking for the University of Maine's Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center.

College Of Engineering_Gee 230 Introduction To Engineering Leadership And Management_Group Team Project, Dana N. Humphrey

College of Engineering

Course assignment for a group project for the two sections of the GEE 230 Introduction to Engineering Leadership and Management course, focused on plans for manufacturing productive equipment and respirators. Also, includes cover email from Dean Dana N. Humphrey to the Provost Office regarding the course Dean Humphrey taught.

Advanced Manufacturing Center_Aerosol Box_Negative Pressure Designs, Forest Wentworth

Advanced Manufacturing Center

CAD specification designs for aerosol box's negative pressure chamber to be used by doctors in treating COVID-19. The designs were produced by John Belding, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Center, University of Maine.

College Of Engineering_Pandemic Related Projects, Courses And Materials, University Of Maine College Of Engineering

College of Engineering

Report from the University of Maine College of Engineering chairs/faculty and center directors detailing projects directly relevant to COVID-19 and course materials/strategies/assignments/approaches to create infrastructures of support for students in the face of COVID-19.

Advanced Manufacturing Center_Aerosol Box_Negative Pressure_First Prototype Images, Forest Wentworth

Advanced Manufacturing Center

Photographs of the negative pressure chamber original prototype "NPC OG" for an aerosol box intended to be used by frontline medical staff. The prototype was manufactured by the University of Maine's Advanced Manufacturing Center.

Advanced Structures And Composites Center_Aerosol Box Notes & Photographs, David Erb Jr.

Advanced Manufacturing Center

Notes regarding an early prototype of an aerosol box produced by the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center in response to a need from front line medical staff when treating COVID-19. The design didn't ultimately make it into production.

Also, including as supplementary content are photographs of the box taken by David F. Erb Jr., Senior R&D Program Manager, Advanced Structures and Composites Center.

Advanced Manufacturing Center_Aerosol Box_Intubation Hood Designs, Forest Wentworth, John Belding

Advanced Manufacturing Center

CAD specification designs for an aerosol box's incubation hood to be used by doctors in treating COVID-19. The designs were produced by John Belding, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Center, University of Maine.

Chemical And Biomedical Engineering _Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide N95 Decontamination Summary, Caitlin Howell

Advanced Manufacturing Center

Summary evaluation of Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide for the decontamination of N95 filtering facepiece respirators by Caitlin Howell, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine.