VIRTUAL EXPO 2024-2025 Cohort
VIRTUAL EXPO 2024-2025 Cohort
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Manufacturing is a foundation of economic growth and job creation across the U.S. and is constantly changing with improvements in technology, materials and design. While this field is a pillar for economic growth within the US, manufacturing companies have struggled to recruit a prepared workforce. Our intention is to strengthen middle/high school teacher’s understanding of the multiple career pathways in manufacturing along with their ability to explain how new manufacturing technologies depend on the advancement of engineering and science. These teachers not only became researchers and pushed forward their projects, they also shared their teaching expertise with our faculty and graduate students.
This site highlights the work of the teachers who joined us in Summer 2024 to complete their research and then brought their experience back into their classrooms in Fall 2024/Spring 2025.
Our first cohort of teachers began in the summer of 2023 and you can see their Virtual Expo here (Click this link).
Sandra DeYoung
Research: Ion-conducing oxide ceramics for better battery electrolytes
Harika Etha
Research: Manufacturing Methods for Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells
Kevin Hawkins
Research: Simulation of Warehouse Operations
Lindsey McKenzie
Research: Benchtop analysis of pressure offloading associated
David Pepper
Research: Mechanical testing of HEA Alloy CrCoFeNiTi
April Scott
Research: Fundamentals of Computing and Personal Finance
Robert 'Rob' Sheffield
Research: Mechanical and Electrical Properties of 3D Printed Metal Lattice Structures
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Catherine Hayes, South Carolina Research Authority
Dan Wylie, Nucor Steel
Shane Long, GE Gas Power
Ann Marie Alexander, Clemson University
Suzanne Dickerson, SC Fraunhofer Alliance
Doug Ramsey, Axial Partners
THANK YOU TO OUR ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS & RESEARCH ADVISORS
We thank our partners who have collaborated with our RET teachers through development of their research and teaching projects. These research and learning experiences would not have been possible without their time and partnership in important members of our research team.
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