This past Friday (10/17/2025), we welcomed our Mechanical Engineering instructors to the Storrs campus for their first ECE professional development experience! Many thanks to our joint faculty coordinators, Jorge Paricio Garcia, Ph.D. and Edward Weingart for their collaborative efforts to make this a session to remember!

Several guest contributors joined instructors on campus for a variety of resource demonstrations. First, Nate Delson from Grove Education delivered a demo of Spatial Vis, an engineering education software that helps students improve their 2D and 3D spatial visualization skills via an app on their personal devices. Next, Rachel Gregorio of Tech Ed Solutions provided a demonstration of SolidWorks, an industry-standard engineering technology used in the UConn College of Engineering.

The afternoon continued with a field trip to the Krenicki Arts & Engineering Institute, an “innovative, interdisciplinary nexus that offers groundbreaking classes in areas like entertainment engineering and industrial design” that was born out of a collaboration between the College of Engineering and the School of Fine Arts at UConn. Instructors shared lunch in the Institute, and then were given the chance to explore the 3D printers at the facility.

It was a jam-packed afternoon, and we are already looking forward to our next workshop! Thank you to all of our contributors, our faculty coordinators, and our attendees for their support of our ECE instructors, students and community. We’ll see you next year!

Mechanical Engineering (ME) courses available through UConn Early College Experience.

On Tuesday, October 8th, UConn Early College Experience hosted a professional development workshop for certified ECE Engineering teachers, under the guidance of Professor Sarira Motaref, our ECE Faculty Coordinator for Engineering. The event included a variety of enrichment opportunities, including a discussion on Neuroinclusive teaching strategies, and an opportunity to engage with the teaching resources that UConn makes available to its ECE instructors. Instructors were also given the chance to interact with representatives from UConn’s undergraduate chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), all before lunch! The afternoon was devoted to presentations from our own ECE Engineering instructors, who were given the chance to share strategies and student work from their own classrooms. 

Thank you to all who joined us for an enriching experience!

 

UConn Civil Engineering Courses offered through Early College Experience.