complexity ofthe engineering education infrastructure and emphasizes the importance of engaging all agents ofchange across the leadership hierarchy [2], [43]. Although the leadership hierarchy of engineeringinstitutions include faculty, administrators, industry professionals, governing boards, and federalagencies, faculty’s roles and responsibilities uniquely position them to influence curriculum designand delivery, policies, practices, and cultures [44]. As a result, faculty can be a bridge betweenstudent agency and the institutional structures, positioning them as a critical component forensuring change in engineering education [43], [45]–[47].Similar to our analysis of student agency, we identified a few studies evaluating faculty agencyusing
the Valparaiso University. Dr. Sadri received his doctoral training from the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University with a solid background in Civil Engineering (Transportation), Network Science, and Social Science. Dr. Sadri specializes in resilience engineering, evacuation modeling, shared mobility, social influence modeling, machine learning, agent-based model- ing, and network modeling. Dr. Sadri’s research focuses on the critical interdependence between social and infrastructure networks and integrates human proactive decision-making components into the civil in- frastructure management challenges. Dr. Sadri develops human-centered and network-driven techniques that complement to the science of
components of the system are replaced over time. The College of Engineering atUNIVERSITY can be conceived of as a complex system with its own set of values, structures,hierarchies, resources, and relationships, which interact together to influence the emergentcharacteristics of the system as a whole. Systems thinking philosophy, exemplified by the workof Donella Meadows (2009) and Ervin Laszlo (1975, 1996) provide useful frameworks formaking general statements about complex systems such as a college of engineering. DonellaMeadows observes that well-functioning systems typically have at least one of threecharacteristics: resilience, self-organization, and hierarchy.The first system characteristic discussed is resilience, which can be thought of as
and an Adjunct Professor in the Civil Engineering Dept. at the Valparaiso University. Dr. Sadri received his doctoral training from the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University with a solid background in Civil Engineering (Transportation), Network Science, and Social Science. Dr. Sadri specializes in resilience engineering, evacuation modeling, shared mobility, social influence modeling, machine learning, agent-based model- ing, and network modeling. Dr. Sadri’s research focuses on the critical interdependence between social and infrastructure networks and integrates human proactive decision-making components into the civil in- frastructure management challenges. Dr. Sadri develops human-centered and
in a professional developmentengineering education workshop. Abiding by game-design protocol, each group contained threeor four teachers. After the test-play, we conducted semi-structured interviews of each teacher-group. Questions probed what teachers learned about earthquake engineering, what they did anddid not like, what they would change, and how effective they thought the game was in teachinginterconnectivity of urban infrastructure components. We analyzed interview transcripts withconstant comparison qualitative methodology to capture emergent patterns among teachers’comments. Results indicated needs for more player roles, clarifications in playing cards, and theproduction of an introductory video to highlight the game’s function. We
Texas A&M University, post- graduate training in evaluation at The Evaluators Institute (TEI) at George Washington University and the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. Besides teaching, she has worked as an evaluator in grants awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Currently she is the internal evaluator for the projects Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to Successful Engineering Careers (PEARLS) and for Building Capacity at Collaborative Undergraduate STEM Program in Resilient and
Engineering Careers (PEARLS) and for Building Capacity at Collaborative Undergraduate STEM Program in Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure (RISE-UP). Both projects are funded by NSF.Dr. Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico Mayag¨uez (UPRM). She graduated with a BS in Industrial Engineering from UPRM (1983), a MSIE (1985) from Purdue University, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering (1996) from The Pennsylvania State University. Her teaching and research interests include: Discrete Event Simulation, Facilities Planning, Material Handling Systems, Women in Academia in STEM fields
, Learning, and Culture. In her research, she is interested in the assessing STEM interventions on student outcomes, measuring academic growth, and evaluating the impact of curricular change.Dr. Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia University Dr. Fraustino is an assistant professor of strategic communication and director of the Public Interest Communication Research Laboratory in the Media Innovation Center of the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University. She is a research affiliate in the risk communication and resilience portfolio at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a DHS Emeritus Center of Excellence. She specializes in crisis, emergency, and risk
concern, Practical Action hopes to model “climate-proofed” development by buildingresilient livelihoods through grant-funded community infrastructure projects.Contemporary documents from IDE show how the organization embodies Polak’s vision. IDEcommunicates its mission in a dynamic slideshow located on the organization’s homepage.eShort sentences in boxes appear with images of smallholder farmers. IDE views income as abasic human right because lack of money restricts access to food and water.f To bridge the gapbetween designers and people living in poverty, IDE treats smallholder farmers as customers. Bydeveloping market-based solutions, IDE designers help people exit poverty. In IDE’s 2012Innovation Portfolio, the editors focus on IDE’s use of
social distancing practice was mandated, which resulted in theclosure of schools, colleges, and universities to protect the welfare of faculty, staff, and students.Many educational institutions opted to switch from face-to-face teaching to online learning byusing the internet and networking infrastructure that has made it possible for people to interactwith each other regardless of where they live. The transition posed a huge challenge to facultybecause the methods used for teaching in conventional, in-person learning environments differsignificantly from those used in remote learning. Instructors had to quickly develop emergencyremote teaching (ERT) methods so that students could continue to learn despite the crisis [2]. Insuch circumstances
materials in construction, and engineering education.Lt. Col. Jakob C Bruhl P.E., U.S. Military Academy Lieutenant Colonel Jakob Bruhl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. from Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology, M.S. Degrees from the University of Missouri at Rolla and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Missouri. His research interests include resilient infrastructure, protective structures, and engineering education.Major John J. Case, Department of Systems Engineering, United States Military Academy JOHN CASE
methodologies. Bekki is the co-director of the interdisciplinary, National Science Foundation supported CareerWISE research program, which strives to: 1) understand the experiences of diverse women who are pursuing and leaving doctoral programs in science and engineering and 2) increase women’s persistence in science and engineering doctoral programs through the development and dissemination of an online resilience and interpersonal communication training program.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and