, facilitating career advancement, fostering connections, and providing leadership development opportunities. Heidi served as the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Diversity in the College of Engineering at Montana State University from 2001-2012. She also served as the Director of EMPower, the engineering minority program. Heidi earned her PhD in Educational Leadership from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014. She studied developmental relationships in higher education and investigated the processes through which higher education leadership is fostered including mentoring, coaching, role-modeling, sponsoring, and networking. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
within The Polytechnic School, one of six schools in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher with focus on the preparation and pathways of engineering students. Her specific research interests include engineering student persistence and career decision-making, early career engineering practice, faculty pedagogical risk-taking, and entrepreneurial mindset. She completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to ASU, she worked as an engineer at A. W. Chesterton, Boston Scientific, and Procter & Gamble.Dr. Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University Dr
educational attainment and schooling experiences of Mexican descent youth in the mid-20th century, and higher education student success.Dr. Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Valerie Martin Conley is dean of the College of Education and professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She previously served as director of the Center for Higher Education, professor, and department chair at Ohio University. She was the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in
tenure, the lack of clarity in theP&T documents make it difficult for faculty to discern what these activities might be. As a result,many current P&T documents serve as a summative evaluative tool as opposed to a useful toolfor faculty development. This is unfortunate and should be viewed as a missed opportunity.Since being promoted and granted tenure is inherently important to a faculty member, then theP&T process could also be leveraged to encourage faculty to engage in activities that are highlyvalued by the institution while also helping the faculty member define a clear developmentalpath along their career trajectory. The idea of combining development with evaluation for facultyis not new. Cashin (1996) proposed the idea over 20
identified needis proposed in Appendix B. This plan could also take into account other faculty aspects (e.g.,research, administrative training). In the proposed plan, a given program is characterized byfaculty career stage and considers six elements (participation, complexity level, funding, programtype and evaluation). This elements are explained in the following paragraphs.Participation of faculty members in training programs could be mandatory or not according toindividual departmental hiring and promotion policies. To date, no policies are in place; everydepartment has its own policies. Regarding incentives, it is known that faculty members’participation might increase with the providing of incentives. Complexity level is defined as
that many faculty engage ininterdisciplinary project work well outside their fields of expertise, some in immersive programs away fromcampus. Findings from a study of early-career faculty engaging in interdisciplinary off-campus projectwork suggests that such opportunities were seen as valuable personal and professional developmentexperiences by the faculty, and that participation did not hamper progress toward tenure [9].5 Case Study: Nanyang Polytechnic Institute At NYP, students take a 3-year diploma program in a sequence of six semester-long 3-credit courses.Figure 4 shows how PBL experience is embedded in the curriculum; PBL currently forms about 30% ofmost diploma programs in NYP. In the first five semesters of the course of study
data mining, and the modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering and graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering, all from Arizona State University.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Dr. Samantha R. Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School, one of six schools in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher with focus on the preparation and pathways of engineering students. Her specific research interests include engineering student persistence and career decision-making, early career engineering practice, faculty pedagogical risk-taking, and entrepreneurial mindset
two meetings were dedicated to discussing mentorship-related needsengineering faculty have and brainstorming potential next steps. The informal component ofmentorship emerged as an important theme in these discussions because it occurs daily in subtleways. Although these interacts continuously affect faculty development, they are difficult tomanage or support structurally. The team conducted a “customer discovery” or havingdiscussions with recently promoted faculty to learn more about their mentorship-related needs.The reasoning for this is that incoming faculty receive a great deal of onboarding support whenthey first begin their faculty careers. There are ample workshops and other resources to supportthem in teaching, research, work-life
mostimportantly gained confidence that they can both germinate bold ideas, as well as move themforward. At the conclusion of the fellowship year, another ASSERT Fellow acknowledged theimpact and importance of participating in this community. This fellow stated that, “If it weren’tfor this program, I would now be on the job market.” A third fellow remarked, “The chance toview faculty life through the eyes of the rest of the community of ASSERT Fellows has beeninvaluable. The widely varying perspectives on things as a result of peoples’ career stages(tenure vs. pre-tenure for example) and disciplines have allowed me to better understand where Iam and where I am going.”PITCH EVENTTo offer ASSERT Fellows the opportunity and external support to move their
Paper ID #26660Building Your Dream Team for ChangeDr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Assistant Director of the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara manages the evaluation of several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, intersectionality, and institutional change.Kerice Doten-Snitker, University
disparities and despite a variety of national and programmatic changes aimed atimproving outcomes for unrepresented groups, only marginal success has been achieved in thelast decade [1, 2]. The notable absence of low-SES students majoring in engineeringdisciplines has resulted in a profession that lacks the representation and diversity of the actualUS population and significantly impacts the career potential of low-SES students in theengineering fields [1]. Engineering faculty frequently recognize the problem, but often lackthe formal training in instructional best practices necessary to help underrepresented studentsto persist and succeed in their courses. Instead faculty often revert to teaching the way theywere taught, employing the long-venerated
, potential differences with tenure-line faculty, and challenges that are specific toinstructional faculty, as well as the role of faculty development on career pathways andpromotion. The research should also consider multiple institutional contexts, as this studyfocused on faculty at HSIs. In addition, the findings of this study highlighted a need to examineinstructional faculty members’ perceptions and use of resources, beyond on-campus workshops.Finally, the interest by the instructional faculty in engaging further with engineering educationresearch suggests an opportunity to examine their development of educational theory andresearch knowledge.The results illustrated that only instructional faculty had multiple dominant teachingperspectives
Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her research interests include: Teamwork, International Collaborations, Faculty Development, Quality Control/Management and Broadening Participation. She is an honor graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering, in 1988. In 1991 she was awarded the Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering
engineering education throughout my undergraduate career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Where do we meet? Understanding conference participation in a Department of Engineering EducationAbstractThis research paper focuses on understanding conference participation in a department ofengineering education. The Engineering Education community has developed several spaces inthe United States and internationally to continuously discuss the trends of the field. However, wewanted to explore if people were participating in diverse conferences beyond the traditionalconferences in the field. Nevertheless, engineering educators come from a very broad range ofbackgrounds, including different
estimation for applications in target tracking and physical layer communications. Her work on target detection and tracking is funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Nelson is a 2010 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies.Dr. Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University Margret Hjalmarson is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. Her research interests include engineering education, mathematics education, faculty development and mathematics teacher leadership. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
limited to only five facultymembers who teach first year courses in engineering and volunteered to be in the study, althoughthere is a total of eleven faculty members who currently fit this role at the university. One nextiteration in the works is to to include all first-year faculty members in workshops and trainingaround sharing best practices in civic education and working with faculty to think broadly aboutthe implications that building in real world application and discussion can have on their courses.In addition, steps should be taken to build in civic engagement training with faculty who alsoteach courses to students later in their undergraduate careers. In addition to experiencing directedcivic engagement curriculum and discussion within
instructors dependent on discipline; in quantitativefields are most "hazardous" to professors' careers. Insidehighered.com.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/10/study-student-ratings-instructors-dependent-discipline-quantitative-fields-are-mostGannon, K. (2018). In Defense (Sort of) of Student Evaluations of Teaching. The Chronicle ofHigher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/In-Defense-Sort-of-of/243325Harrison, P., Douglas, D. & Burdsal, C. (2004). The relative merits of different types of overallevaluations of teaching effectiveness. Research in Higher Education, 45 (3), 311-323.Hora, M.T. (2015). Toward a descriptive science of teaching: How the TDOP illuminates themultidimensional nature of active learning in postsecondary
. Prior to her role as project manager, Sarah worked asthe SEI Coordinator for a local high school and has also developed an inclusion program for Migrant andImmigrant students that utilized co-teaching and active learning as keystones of the program. She beganher educational career as a high school teacher, teaching courses in English, math, and science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Coaching and Feedback in a Faculty Professional Development Program that Integrates the Entrepreneurial Mindset and Pedagogical Best Practices into Capstone Design CoursesAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper reports on the impact of individualized coaching as part of abroader
“...they come to office hours with more than just classps with and investments student instructors material questions. One student who’s a junior askedstudents developed towards their students many more questions about career as an engineer than actual class material. I think she was looking for moreSubcode Explanation Sample quote than just—she was looking for a mentor as well—those unspoken needs that different people in different walks of life have different needs, and