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WIP It! Faculty Development Style!

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lisa Bosman, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Erin J. McCave, University of Houston; Molly H Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Kelli L. Chelberg, College of Menominee Nation

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College. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 WIP: Virtual Writing Group Participation: Surprises & Unintended Outcomes Dr. Lisa B. Bosman, Dr. Erin McCave, Dr. Molly Goldstein, and Dr. Kelli ChelbergIntroduction & BackgroundThis work-in-progress paper emerged from the shared experience of participation in a VirtualWriting Group (VWG) composed of early career engineering education researchers (EER) in avariety of positions at different institutions. In general, this particular group of EERs had limitedresources and access to a peer community at their respective institutions, therefore, the VWGwas formed with the intention to spur EER scholarly activity

Conference Session

Research! Research! Research! in Faculty Development

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Amber Gallup, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New Mexico; Yan Chen, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico; Kristen Ferris, University of New Mexico

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changeeffort, along with two co-peers. The change effort focused on developing realistic designchallenges for core courses, increasing use of rubrics and attention to professional skills inassessment, and teaching technical writing in ways that align to research-based approaches.Data collection and analysisWe collected multiple kinds of data to document faculty participation. We recorded andtranscribed multiple faculty meetings, including professional development workshops, retreats,and industry advisory board meetings, observed faculty teaching, and gathered field notes andreflective accounts. To supplement these naturalistic data, we invited faculty to be interviewedusing semi-structured questions, resulting in seven audio-recorded interviews that

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley!

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Cassondra Wallwey, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

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Diversity

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. Werner, S. Ishizaki, S. Rohrbach, D. Dzombak, and J. Miller, “An analysis of engineering students’ use of instructor feedback and an online writing tutorial during drafting and revision,” in IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, 2015.[12] S. Taylor, “Comments on Lab Reports by Mechanical Engineering Teaching Assistants,” J. Bus. Tech. Commun., vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 402–424, 2007.[13] D. J. Boud and W. H. Holmes, “Self and peer marking in an undergraduate engineering course,” IEEE Trans. Educ., vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 267–274, 1981.[14] J. McGourty, P. Dominick, and R. R. Reilly, “Incorporating student peer review and feedback into the assessment process,” in FIE’98. 28th Annual Frontiers in

Conference Session

Evidence-based Practices in Faculty Development

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Mary Slowinski, College of the Canyons; Gabrielle P. Temple; Kenneth Walz, Madison Area Technical College

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community of practice that embodies professional diversity and excellence and ensures a personal commitment by those selected to participate. • Utilize pre-travel activities to present learning materials, webinars, and required assignments that establish baseline knowledge, foster peer relationships, and build the context for the international experience. This front-end work also helps ensure the best use of valuable time abroad. • Ensure knowledge capture and retention by requiring daily writing exercises while traveling. • Utilize post-travel assignments to support integration of acquired knowledge into participants' professional and instructional practices. Setting personal learning goals prior

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Research in Faculty Development

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Kristen Ferris, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico

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so by a chair following poor teaching evaluations; this typicallydoes not make them more ready to change, however. Our setting, because of the five-year effortto engage all faculty in better meeting diverse student needs, provided an opportunity toinvestigate both groups of faculty. Our study reports on the first four years of the project.The departmental change effort included several strategies, guided by an engineering educationresearcher, to bring about change: threading design challenges through core chemicalengineering courses; switching from bleed-all-over-it, long technical reports to cycles of drafts,peer and instructor feedback, and revision and reflection; and developing ways to assess andsupport professional skills like teamwork

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Lessons Learned about Faculty Development!

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Emily Peterek Bonner; Vittorio Marone, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Timothy Yuen, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Robin Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio; Joann Browning P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

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process in which faculty are engaged inongoing evaluation of what their students are supposed to learn, what they are actually learning,what evidence-based pedagogical approaches will help their students get to their goals, and howthese factors inform one another [6, 7]. To participate in the course transformation program,engineering faculty had to write a proposal for the courses they wanted to redesign, withendorsement from the department chair. Faculty who participated were expected to evaluate anddisseminate the outcomes of their course transformations to other faculty in their department,especially when other faculty were to teach these redesigned courses. Active learning approachessuch as student response systems, interactive digital

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Faculty Development Evidence-based Practices!

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Chris Migotsky, University of Illinois

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with similarconcerns.Observation of an Excellent TeacherWhile the weekly sessions provide exposure to teaching theory, pedagogy, and research, it isalways beneficial to see good teaching practices implemented in a real classroom. We recruitexcellent teachers to open up their classrooms to the new instructors. Every year, we schedulevisits to about 15 engineering instructors who have been identified as excellent by their studentsand peers. The new faculty sign up, in small groups, to visit these role models. An instructionaldevelopment specialist accompanies them on the visits to help guide the observation and debriefafterward. Every semester, we also reserve time in the weekly seminar to further discuss theexcellent teacher visits and

Conference Session

Research in Faculty Development

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Tareq Daher, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Markeya S. Peteranetz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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their participation in the program would supporttheir current or future teaching and overall growth as a teacher. Students must also submit arecommendation letter from their adviser.The program consists of five main activities. First, students complete a 3-credit STEM Teachingcourse that focuses on evidence-based course design and instructional practices (fall semester).Second, students participate in the Peer Observation of Classroom Activities program byconducting 4 engineering classroom observations along with other graduate students and afaculty member (both semesters). Observers receive training on and use the ClassroomObservation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS). Third, students write and receivefeedback on a teaching philosophy

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Learnin' Lessons about Faculty Development

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Daniel Galvan, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Jane Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Lizabeth L Thompson P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles

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iterative reflection, shared learning and Figure 1. Structure of workshop activities discussion. a. Reflective Activity on Participants’ Own College Experience At the beginning of the workshop, we asked the participants to take several minutes to write a reflection of their own educational experience. The goal in this exercise was two-fold: 1) to allow instructors to remember their own experiences or difficulties in maneuvering the educational system and 2) to recognize that their experience may be dramatically different than their current students. Reflection has been used in educational settings for decades as a way to solidify information, but reflection on the part of the instructors is less common. There are

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley!

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Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Arnold Neville Pears, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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Diversity

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engineering educator might be expected to possess. This has profoundimplications for the design of future courses for beginning teachers of engineering and alliedsubjects.(b) Findings related to becoming a professional engineering educatorOne of us (John) was much affected by the fact that much of the discussion seemed to focus onthe personal problems of the teacher, in particular the teaching versus research conflict. Itseemed there were no lines of accountability and that everything was governed by a strongmotivation to write papers to be published in internationally peer reviewed journals. He alsonoted a similarity with the problems faced by the beginning schoolteacher and considered thatthe workshop should have begun with a discussion of

Conference Session

Research in Faculty Development

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Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Sarah E Cooksey, University of Colorado Colorado Springs ; Kathryn Elizabeth Starkey, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

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participant shared that his drive to be successful in this environment, through increasing hispublication record, created strife within his lab and led to a misunderstanding among his peers: It was kind of reported to the supervisor that I was not helpful, or I was pushy, and I was demanding papers . . . if I did not have that pressure, I would not have run into the trouble with my colleagues and my supervisor. So, I feel they're interconnected. They [colleagues] may not have understood that I was driven to write papers because of the requirement from faculty hiring committees.This individual believed his career goals and relationships with his peers were at cross-purposes,which resulted in a competitive

Conference Session

Research! Research! Research! in Faculty Development

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Ariana C. Vasquez, Colorado School of Mines; Amy Hermundstad Nave, Colorado School of Mines; Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines

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allow either the reflect on something, and write about that or instructor or the student to gain even say something about it. I taught an insight into student learning and online class this summer and as part of that I progress. This does not include had students record themselves explaining a instances where the participant solution to the problem. And so that seemed discusses the creation or design of to be a really good

Conference Session

Faculty Development Evidence-based Practices!

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Michelle M Blum, Syracuse University; Katie D. Cadwell, Syracuse University; Julie M. Hasenwinkel, Syracuse University

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for creation of the working group was to enhance prevalence ofactive learning in engineering classes in order to improve both retention and graduation rates,thus keeping these students in the engineering pipeline.Method: The team created an intensive summer program where faculty had to commit to attend akick-off meeting, a minimum of four 2-hour working sessions, and a mandatory finalpresentation. During these sessions faculty benefited from: guest speakers on developing courseoutcomes, teaching methods, and assessment techniques; access to a forum for faculty to discussadapting methods to their various subjects, including potential pitfalls and best practices;receiving peer and technical feedback and support for their new ideas

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Faculty Development Evidence-based Practices!

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John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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-winning programming that helps connectengineering faculty with their peers around the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning. Today,EETI supports the College’s approximately 100 faculty, 40 staff, and 150 graduate students withprograms spanning educational innovation, ENED research, mentoring, teaching support, and ENEDconference travel. A more comprehensive overview of EETI’s formation, programming, and theoreticalinspirations can be found elsewhere (Morelock, Walther, & Sochacka, 2019; Secules, Bale, Sochacka, &Walther, 2018). For the purposes of this paper, we will focus on EETI programming directly related to ENEDresearch, which we define as the systematic study of ENED settings—including the Scholarship ofTeaching

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Faculty Development Medley!

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Federica Robinson-Bryant, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; Narcrisha Norman, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; Yuetong Lin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

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, consistency of contracts and recognizes valuable contributions • Employ an open loop evaluation system that allows ongoing tracking, [12] analysis, communication and synthesis and communication of findings for continuous improvement of the faculty and the institution • Require more equitable scrutiny and evaluation among various faculty [13] groups to communicate the need for quality irrespective of faculty status •Allow time for active learning for adjunct faculty including reflection, [12] writing and self-improvement audits College Communication • Integrate the use of two way communication platforms and powerful [4] technological tools into processes to help build rapport

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Managing Dual Careers

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Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University; Shannon Bartelt-Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Janet Callahan, Michigan Technological University

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Electrical and Computer, Faculty Development Division, Women in Engineering

the University of Nebraska. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Virginia and her research focuses on the fate and transport of biologically-active organic contaminants in agricultural systems and water reuse in agriculture. She is a faculty fellow of the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska and maintains a courtesy appointment in the Department of Environmental, Occupational and Agricultural Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She has published over 95 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, was awarded an NSF CAREER award in 2012, and in 2015 was a member of a team receiving the Grand Prize for University Research