2023 Transformation Grant Projects Selected
The following applications were selected:
Commitment to Student Success: Preparing student career-readiness by “Undergraduate Research Symposium at WVU Tech” – collaboration among Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Student Life
- PI: Yogendra (Yogen) Panta
- Co-PI: Emily Sands
- Co-PI: Kenan Hatipoglu
For the Growth of WVU Tech (Tools/Equipment needed for outreach activities to highlight the art of engineering and science) – Civil Engineering
- PI: Guillermo Hahn
Attracting more students to Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Information Technology Departments by Establishing a New Area of Emphasis with Cutting-edge Transportation Electrification and a New Renewable Energy Engineering Program at WVU Tech – Electrical and Computer Engineering
- PI: Aboubakr Salem
- Co-PI: Kenan Hatipoglu
New Program Curriculum: Forensic Chemistry – a collaboration between the Physical Sciences Department and Social Sciences
- PI: Hasan El-Rifai
- Co-PI: Rana Jisr
- Co-PI: Tarek Farhat
- Co-PI: Andrew Wheeler
- Co-PI: Mark Vecellio
Using Environmental Monitoring Sensors to Conduct Student-led Research at the New River National Park and Preserve over the next decade – Biology
- PI: Jay Raymond
Temperature Control Lab for Dynamics and Process Control – Chemical Engineering
- PI: Sihe Zhang
- Co-PI: Gifty Osei-Prempeh
Leveraging our own to increase retention and success in an Introductory Biology course at WVU Institute of Technology: Course Embedded Peer Teaching Assistants (PTAs) – Biology
We Should Start Texting People: A proposal on why we need to be texting everyone and how we can do it – University Relations
- PI: Ryan Couch
Student Enrollment with Regional Industrial Cooperation – a collaboration among Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Information Systems and Career Services/Student Life
- PI: Charan Litchfield
- Co-PI: Aboubakr Salem
- Co-PI: Thang Bui
- Co-PI: Somenath Chakraborty
- Co-PI: Mingyu Lu
- Co-PI: Kenan Hatipoglu
- Co-PI: Susan Wood
Use the Innovative in-class teach-with-experiment Method for a Renewable Energy/Green Chemistry Course – Chemistry
- PI: Tarek Farhat
Battling food insecurity, providing additional mental health resources, and ensuring students can easily locate resources in the Benedum Center – Student Life
- PI: Scott Robertson
Highlighting student success and celebrating student accomplishments for upper-class students – Student Life
- PI: Scott Robertson
Kids’ Corner – Library
New Monty costume – University Relations/Athletics