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MERGE Lab Co-Investigator, Dr. Matthew J. Traum, was elected to the Executive Board of the American Society For Engineering Education (ASEE) Pre-College Engineering Education (PCEE) Division [http://precollege.asee.org/] for a one-year term. Election results were announced at the PCEE Division Meeting at the ACEE Annual Conference on June 26, 2020. Dr. Traum will serve the PCEE […]

Throughout June 2020, MERGE Co-Investigator Dr. Matthew J. Traum collaborated with the Educational Talent Search staff at Santa Fe College (SFC) to create and deliver STEMTank, an engineering design summer program for high school students from rural and disadvantaged areas in North-Central Florida. The three-week-long STEMTank program included a staff of eight UF MAE seniors […]

 MERGE Lab Co-PI Dr. Matt Traum has been awarded as a subcontractor through Santa Fe’s STEMTank program. STEMTank is a program sponsored through the U.S. Department of Education’s Educational Talent Search, a federally funded grant program that provides college access information and assistance to first generation, low-income students across North Central Florida. Santa Fe College […]

The MERGE lab has returned from the American Society of Engineering Education Southeast Section Conference where we presented on the UF way of instructing mechanical engineering design and our implementation of PDM as an instructional tool.  We would like to express our gratitude to Auburn University for hosting the conference this year.  It was a […]

Thank you Dr. Carl Crane for re-homing the department CMM to the Mechanical Design lab.  Students immediately took to the machine to inspect parts coming off the machine.  We’re incredibly grateful to be adding this new capability to our lab.  

Students from all over the globe traveled to TU Berlin to participate in their Summer University Program.  Fifteen University of Florida students participated with their peers from over a dozen different countries in courses on Precision Engineering, Design, and Technical Drawing.  Dr Sean Niemi taught these students the fundamentals of gathering measurements and showcased the […]