This week weâre spotlighting the City Tech Womenâs Engineer Club. This club provides an exciting opportunity for City Tech students to connect and collaborate with their peers as well as faculty members on projects and events around campus and the larger metro area.… Continue reading this post
Category: In The Spotlight
In the Spotlight: ENG1121-D433 – English Composition 2
This week weâre spotlighting Professor Iddingsâ English Composition 2 course site (ENG 1121-D433). After a quick tour around Professor Iddingsâ course site, it is easy to see how this site functions as an important hub for her students and aims to support them in being successful in the course.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: HGMT 4989 – Culinary Tourism
This week weâre shining the spotlight on Professor Krondlâs Culinary Tourism course (HGMT 4989). This course facilitates students exploration of the concept of culinary tourism, and highlights its impact on the tourism industry. The first thing you notice about this course site is that it is easily navigable.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: The Open Road
Hello all, happy new year, and welcome back (nearly)! Itâs that time of the year again when professors are scrambling to finish composing their classes, finalize assignments and get their course sites up and running on the OpenLab. With this in mind, this week weâd like to, once again, bring your attention to the Open Road, your one-stop-shop for âall things OpenLabâ.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Science Fiction at City Tech
This week weâre spotlighting the faculty-run site, âScience Fiction at City Techâ. This site strives to âconnect individual and collective efforts that study Science Fiction directly or leverage it to enrich City Techâs studentsâ experiences, deepen classroom learning with archival research, and connect City Tech to the networks of science fiction research around the worldâ.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Energy and Environmental Simulation Laboratory
This week weâre spotlighting City Techâs Energy and Environmental Simulation Laboratory (EESL). EESL is a research group organized by Professor Masato R. Nakamura in the Mechanical Engineering Department at City Tech. Though a research group, this group is open to anyone interested in conducting research on energy, environmental engineering and computing for sustainability.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: RoboQuĂn
This week weâre spotlighting CityTechâs own âRoboquĂnâ. In addition to being a seemingly futuristic mannequin robot fashion model that can interact with people via Bluetooth and Wifi connectivity, RoboquĂn is also a larger multidisciplinary project composed around the construction and showcasing of the mannequin robot (hereafter the robot will be referred to as RoboQueen and the project will be referred to as RoboquĂn).… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: COMD 2313 — Illustration 1
This week weâre highlighting Professor Sara Woolley GĂłmezâs course, COMD 2313: Illustration 1. Similar to other course sites, Professor Woolley GĂłmez has basic course information on it (syllabus and course policies). However, based on the other features on her course site, Woolley GĂłmez seems more inclined to use the site as a place for introducing additional features of the course and sharing student work.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: Student Kim Mohammed’s ePortfolio
Though many of us may more readily think âcourseworkâ or âgroup project coordinationâ when we think of the OpenLab, the platform also offers an important opportunity for displaying individual work in a unique and professional way. City Tech student, Kim Mohammed offers an excellent example of how this can be accomplished.… Continue reading this post
In the Spotlight: SADHA
OpenLab affords many opportunities for student-faculty collaboration and professional development for students. For a great example of this, look no further than SADHA. SADHA, short for Student American Dental Hygiene Association, is a site that facilitates the membership of first and second year Dental Hygiene students in an important professional organization – the American Dental Hygiene Association.… Continue reading this post
