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and K-12 STEM Outreach Team Leader at the Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center at Farmingdale State College. Her research interests are engineering technology education, self-directed lifelong learning and the decision-making process in design and manufacturing environments.

The increasing emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in United States and across the world created the demand for STEM education to start as early as elementary school. Especially in the past decade, the demand for middle schools and high schools to increase the involvement of the STEM components in their curriculum has been on the rise. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)are testimonial to this demand and need. With the fast-pace the NGSS are being adopted by different states, the expectations from science, engineering, and technology teachers to develop and design their courses to reflect the new standards and meet the updated goals increased. To support teachers with the necessary resources and training, a Summer STEM training program and a set of STEM training modules have been developed by a 4year accredited State College. This paper provides an overview of the STEM initiatives and a step-by-step approach of the design and development of the STEM modules to train K-12 teachers.

The idea of a "smart grid" has taken center stage-an evolution of advanced technologies that make the availability of a smarter, more efficient electrical power grid possible. At the heart of these advanced devices for the smart grid lies the powerful technology of programmable devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and SoC (System on Chip). Improving the design component, while integrating social aspects of engineering in the undergraduate engineering education, is a concern for educators, industrial employers and agencies concerned with national productivity and competitiveness. Students' design component at all levels is increasingly focused on renewable energy sources and smart grid due to the increased emphasis in the U.S. on clean energy innovation, generation, and commercialization.This paper presents the current and future efforts in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at Farmingdale State College to attract students to develop Smart Grid related projects using programmable devices, as part of their student research experience, senior projects, and/or participation in national competitions. These projects will be used in summer camps for middle and high school students and teachers. In addition the departmental open houses and other college open forums are always utilized to display student research projects as a way of raising public awareness regarding renewable and sustainable energies.

from 2009 to 2014. He joined Farmingdale State College from 2014. His research interests are in the areas of cyber-physical systems, FGPA design, digital wireless communication, stochastic analysis. His research to date has involved the impact of wireless communication in the feedback systems. Additionally, his research in tracking has involved cyber-physical uncertainties in wireless networked sensing and control, network resource allocation, platoon control and smart grid.