Over the last four years, a series of outreach programs have been offered through the
Colorado School of Mines to middle school teachers from eleven school districts in the State …

The rapid switch to remote teaching with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced
educators to become resourceful and creative to meet course learning objectives. This was …

Research indicates that students often opt out of computing majors due to a lack of prior
experience in computing and a lack of knowledge of field-based job opportunities. In …

The simulations and virtual experiments can be used as an alternative to the real experiment
to encourage scientific discovery learning and inquiry-based learning. The study of the …

A remotely accessible solar energy laboratory has been developed for real-time
experimentation using solar heating and photovoltaic equipment that is physically located at …

This paper describes the offering of an undergraduate laboratory course over the Internet.
The paper provides a brief description of a modular Internet-based laboratory facility using …

An undergraduate introductory science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) class
can be a jarring disappointment to new students expecting to work with cutting-edge …

Whether due to illness, weather, safety, or other concerns, it is very difficult for biology
students to gather meaningful and timely data without access to campus. This has been …

This paper describes a series of laboratory experiments in Internet-based robotics and
mechatronics, as well as the design, development, and evaluation of an Internetbased …

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is uniquely suited for use in education due to its
ability to produce clear three‐dimensional‐looking images of virtually any sample …