Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luis Delgado Jr., Penn State University; Stephanie Cutler, Penn State University; Sarah E Zappe, Penn State University; Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Penn State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

searching for alternative waysto actively involve faculty in educational issues related to the mental health of engineering students– such as the implementation of faculty book clubs.Book clubs have been previously used as a professional development tool in higher education [15],[16], [17]. However, the use of book clubs to explore educational issues is less popular in sciencefields, and even less in engineering [18], [19]. Thus, this Lessons Learned paper focuses ondescribing our experience of running a summer book club for supporting engineering facultydevelopment on critical educational issues related to the mental health of college students. Thebook club invited engineering educators from a large R1 institution in the Mid-Atlantic toparticipate