, STEM education, and ABET accreditation.Dr. Steve U. Efe, Morgan State University Dr. Steve Efe is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of the Center for Advanced Transporta- tion and Infrastructure Engineering Research. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a major in Structural Engineering and minor in Construction from Morgan State University. He has more than 15 years of outstanding experience in practicing, teaching, and research in civil and transporta- tion engineering. He is experienced in project management, inspection and construction supervision, adaptive materials and construction techniques, high performance material testing and simulations, mate- rial modeling and
the videos are recorded, another faculty member wrote: “Extensive effortis required to create modules for these courses. I eliminated exams and increased the number ofassignments and quizzes. I have required students to do virtual demos with graders to presenttheir projects.” Another faculty member wrote: “The whole course structure has been changed.Particularly, a live discussion session is included to actively facilitate students' learning.”As for the help received by faculty who taught in the Online modality, some faculty members hadalready taken the Online Certification Course at our university or at other places. Specifically,several faculty members wrote that they “underwent a training course.” Another faculty memberreceived help “From
&M University. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M since 2002, where his technical specialty is water resources engineering, planning, and management. Prior to this position, he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Georgia Tech, where he taught undergraduate courses for 7 years. His professional activities have included projects in East Africa, Central America, the Middle East, Alaska’s North Slope, and throughout the ”lower 48 states.” His current activities at Texas A&M cover a wide spectrum from K-12 outreach and recruiting to undergraduate curriculum design to retention, monitoring, and post-graduation engagement.Dr. Sherecce Fields, Texas A&M University Sherecce Fields, PhD
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and Learning, and as a project manager for a large scale longitudi- nal research study in high school science classrooms. Prior to joining Mines Ariana was a Survey Team manager at GLG in Austin, TX.Dr. Amy Hermundstad Nave, Colorado School of Mines Amy Hermundstad Nave is a Faculty Developer in the Trefny Innovative Instruction Center at the Col- orado School of Mines. She earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University before going on to earn her PhD in Engineering Education and MEng in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research has focused on conceptual understanding in core engineering courses, op- portunities to support engineering students’ professional development, and
increasing criticalmass of women in these fields [7] will help inform which areas require further attention in orderto support the advancement of women academics in science and engineering.Effectiveness of ADVANCE initiativesSupported by existing research on the challenges of women faculty, such as those described inprevious sections, ADVANCE goals include increasing the representation and advancement ofwomen academics in STEM through systemic approaches, promoting gender equity in STEM ininnovative and systemic ways, and contributing to the creation of knowledge around equityacross gender and other identities of STEM academics. To reach its goals, ADVANCE sponsorsinitiatives to conduct projects of institutional transformation as well as those