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assessed the partner’spotential for bringing in research funding, and has opted to invest in their potential (andpresumably also identified a lab where the research can be carried out, and a research mentor).Other offers can emerge, depending on your partner’s goals. For example, an offer of Lecturer,or Clinical Assistant Professor are good long-term positions with job stability, and the rewardingexperiences of working with students. These are teaching-focused positions and will keep thepartner very busy, precluding their ability to pursue research objectives. Thus, if becomingtenure-track faculty members in your respective fields lies in your long-term dual-career goals, Irecommend negotiating for a partner position that actively supports their
Engineering Education, 2021Quality Mentorship Matters: An Innovative Approach to Supporting Student Success in Engineering Undergraduate ResearchIn this research study, the authors developed a new model of mentorship for faculty members toengage and support their group of students conducting undergraduate engineering research.Research efforts attest that mentoring undergraduate students is a critical role that can dramaticallyenhance student academic and personal outcomes. This finding is magnified in the context ofSTEM related disciplines, such as engineering, where efforts to pro-actively diversify theworkforce are taking shape. Yet, not every form of faculty-student mentorship is proven to beeffective, particularly when faculty conceal
challenges at the same time: abruptly changing their workstrategies and habits, learning new technologies, job insecurity due to the economic challenges ofhigher education, worries about the health and well-being of their families as well as students,losing collaboration opportunities. The Chronicle of Higher Education’s survey, however, didnot explore the experiences of the faculty members from a teaching perspective.The experience of faculty members after this rapid switch to remote instruction was captured byblog posts and reports. These reports observed that faculty members lectured in the remoteenvironment much more than in in-person environment [5-6], experienced a decreasedinteraction with students during class time and students’ engagement
pages serve are engineering educators andfaculty members, similar to us, the authors of this paper. We are international engineeringeducators in the United States, who are in the early phases of our careers, and identify as womenof color. As universities switched to the online format during the Spring 2020 semester, we, likemany of our colleagues, had to adapt to new and unusual circumstances as well as makesignificant adjustments to our professional and personal lives. At the onset of the pandemic, wecreated a support group to share our experiences as we navigated these unprecedentedcircumstances. Through the course of the months following the sudden shift in learningenvironments, we continued to reflect and record our personal challenges of
campuses. They then complete a poster-size GAPAhandout to explore opportunities for enhancing their students’ intrinsic motivation at theirinstitution. Workshop facilitators also encourage faculty members to hang their completedworksheets on the wall and participate in a modified Gallery walk [34]. After feedback anddiscussion, participants were asked to refine a final GAPA worksheet of their design. Figure 3. Simplified GAPA worksheet adapted from [33]Data AnalysisOur exploratory study applied an inductive and deductive approach to analyze and identifyemerging themes from participants’ responses [35]. Worksheets were collected, and participants’responses were de-identified and scanned. Responses were transcribed, organized
this way." Because the laws and the policies about it arechanging frequently’. She is supported by her school’s administration as they understand theimportance of emotional learning in conjunction with conceptual understanding. However,Amber has had interactions with members of the school board, which affected her attitudetowards teaching, being told that “soldiers are essential workers and they did their job. You’re anessential worker, you just need to go do your [job].” These comments and the decision from theschool board to reopen physical school buildings presented another needed adaptation, hybridlearning. Amber’s classroom was not equipped with proper hardware to appropriately teachstudents both in-person and online. All students did
, clearly articulate them and create important change.Traditional student- or institution-supporting service roles are not the only types benefitting fromprevious student government experience. Austin [41] discusses how an ideal graduate schoolexperience prepares students who wish to pursue academic careers by socializing students intothe role of faculty. She highlights how research and teaching assistantships, coupled withadequate reflection opportunities, can help students become aware of the skills they aredeveloping which will be valuable as a faculty member. Unlike the other authors, Canfield didnot serve in the large campus-wide student government, instead working with a number ofinterest focused clubs. Even as a graduate student, she saw
Paper ID #34279How to Promote Faculty Advancement for Nontenure-track FacultyDr. Heather Doty, University of Delaware Heather Doty is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware (UD). Dr. Doty teaches undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, statics, and dynamics, and conducts research on gender in the academic STEM workforce. She is co-PI on UD’s NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transfor- mation grant, which aims to recruit, retain, and advance women STEM faculty at UD. Dr. Doty is faculty advisor to UD’s Women in Engineering Graduate Student steering committee.Dr. Shawna Vican, University of
Paper ID #29446Changing an Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Culture fromthe Bottom Up: Action Plans Generated from Faculty InterviewsElise A. Frickey, Iowa State University Elise is a graduate student at Iowa State University. As a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology, she has been involved with research on the application of self-determination theory to different domains to allow for better understanding of the relationships between contextual factors, basic psychological needs, and indices of well-being. Prior to attending Iowa State University, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Spanish
a different institution) to understand the differences in the natureand number of comments associated with both types of proposals. This qualitative approach isintended to inform the direction of future research rather than to provide conclusive evidence oftrends in reviewer comments [4]. Methods Data Collection The workshops supported two-person teams, comprised of the PI (who, in accordance with S-STEM program requirements was a faculty member teaching in an S-STEM eligible discipline) and a team member with expertise in educational or related areas of research (referred to in this project as researcher participants). A total of 21 teams (42 participants) comprised the 2017 cohort. We
findings.For a number of years, several members of the American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) thought that ASEE should engage in the recognition of educational qualifications if itwas to be a truly professional society. It was felt that ASEE had a professional responsibility toencourage all new engineering educators to gain an initial teaching qualification, not to beconfused with subsequent faculty development. There were no courses equivalent to IGIP [9] butthere were a few well established and recognized courses that were regularly offered (e.g. NETI)[10]. The opportunity to pursue this issue came when Professor Arnold Pears invited one of usto join him in presenting a one-day workshop on evidence-based teaching for persons with littleor
discussed the pros and cons of various gradingoptions (e.g., credit/no credit versus a regular grading scheme), tools for synchronous andasynchronous learning, and strategies for assessing learning. For example, in a late March facultymeeting, faculty spoke about a decision not to give any midterm exams and grappled with how toshow care for all the hardships and uncertainty students were experiencing, while also trying tofigure out how to monitor student learning. One faculty member said: “In the classroom setting,you can walk around and watch the students do a problem. [Online], how do I determine whetherthe students are actually working on material or not? That's, that's what I don’t have an answerfor.”At meetings from spring 2020 all the way to
engineering postdoctoral appointments influence postdoctoral scholars’ view of the professoriate? 2. How does the view of the professoriate influence postdoctoral scholars’ career decision-making process?Literature ReviewA postdoctoral appointment is evolving into an important stepping stone to entering theengineering professoriate because it affords doctoral graduates with advanced preparation toassume the research, teaching, and service responsibilities of a tenure-track faculty member(Andalib et al., 2018; Main & Wang, 2019). Research has demonstrated that postdoctoralappointments are exceptionally advantageous for URMs and women, as their enhanced trainingleads them to be more competitive in the professoriate job
havebeen documented to negatively affect the progress of women faculty in engineering and otherSTEM areas. This is presented with an iterative identification of elements through differentstages of the academic career, layered with variables that are measurable, and potentialapproaches for future modeling given existing research and the characteristics of the ADVANCEprogram. The challenges of modeling such a complex system are discussed, together withpotential alternatives as a first modeling approach using existing data from different sources.IntroductionFor the advancement of the engineering discipline in the U.S., it is paramount to ensure fairparticipation of all members of its diverse society [1]; promoting women representation at thefaculty
member shared that the online environment made it more difficult forstudents to engage socially and that they were less willing to take risks.Communicating written math in an online environment was another major challenge, particularlyin a course in which that kind of communication was central to its design. The majority ofstudents did not have the ability to write math symbols easily. One GTA noted that students werediscouraged by the inability to write freely and that their enthusiasm for group work was lost.Students’ struggles with online communication were perceived to have had a significant impacton group work. As one GTA said, “Group work doesn’t work if they don’t talk to each other.”One faculty observed that group leaders didn’t emerge
Teaching assistants play a vital role in the teaching mission of higher education institutionslike the College of Engineering at UW Madison. They are often the first point of contact a studentmay have with their instructional team and the most familiar role model for an undergraduatestudent questioning a career in the course subject field or academia in general. Not only are TAsvital to the student experience, but they are also potential future faculty, after earning an advanceddegree, it will be expected that they know how to teach. The mission of NEO is to prepare TAs for the charge of teaching, through giving them theskills and tools to teach and engage students, developing their identity as a teacher and skills toadvocate for themselves
learning facilitators (PLFs) as they first seek to support theircapacity to teach, and in doing so, also gain insight from them. Many faculty report seekingfeedback from their PLFs as they make instructional decisions. Taking this further, some haveargued that students should be co-designers. However, engaging teams of students and faculty inthis way presents a clear power imbalance [24], but one that researchers have asserted can beovercome by positioning students as collaborators and discussing points of view and insightsgained from these different vantage points. Others have argued that because of the powerdynamics, an intermediary such as an expert in teaching and learning is needed to formsuccessful student-faculty design partnerships [25
Paper ID #29438The Role of Teaching Self-Efficacy in Electrical and ComputerEngineering Faculty Teaching SatisfactionMr. Kent A. Crick, Iowa State University Kent Crick is currently in his third year as a graduate student at Iowa State University. He is currently a PhD candidate in Counseling Psychology and conducts research in self-determination as it relates to student and faculty motivation and well-being. Prior to attending Iowa State, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Indianapolis. He then worked as a research coordi- nator for the Diabetes and Translational Research Center
STEMeducation enterprise and broaden the pool of researchers that can conduct fundamental researchinto STEM learning and learning environments. This is motivated in part by the recognition thatimproved STEM education will benefit from qualitative and quantitative research [1], and for theneed to evaluate the effectiveness of various initiatives that are being explored [2]. Recent NSFawards have focused mostly on graduate students seeking to become STEM researchersincluding studies that established: 1) an Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, andMixed Methods Training for Underrepresented Scholars [3], 2) a Meta-Analysis ResearchInstitute (MMARI) to improve the quality of meta-analyses conducted in STEM education byproviding training to
Paper ID #31599Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Faculty Mindset AmidstProfessional Development ActivitiesKristen Ferris, University of New Mexico Kristen Ferris is a student in the Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences program at the Uni- versity of New Mexico. Her research interests include faculty mindset change, change management, and organizational citizenship behavior. Much of her research is part of a National Science Foundation grant at UNM where the chemical and biological engineering department is redesigning curriculum to support diverse student retention and graduation. She intends to further
worldwide pandemic?”While this paper is not about where faculty members were when this happened, it is about thelessons learned after a university campus made the decision to close its doors to in-personlearning in the Spring of 2020. Specifically, this paper explores broad lessons learned forengineering faculty development as well as staff and departmental supports in a universitymakerspace during the 2020 spring and fall semesters. We refer to the abrupt transition to onlineand hybrid courses because of an international pandemic as the COVID-19 pivot.Context These lessons learned were discovered at a large, public research university in thesouthwestern United States. This university boasts an engineering school with an
be a part of this community and hopes to spark the interest of engineering education research within her peer groups and to return to education after industry experience.Mr. Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Joseph Mirabelli is an Educational Psychology graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign with a focus in Engineering Education. His interests are centered around mentorship, mental health, and retention in STEM students and faculty. He was awarded the 2019 NAGAP Graduate Educa- tion Gold Research Grant award to study engineering faculty perceptions of graduate student well-being and attrition. Before studying education at UIUC, Joseph earned an MS
, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.Prof. Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is an assistant professor and one of the founding faculty members of integrated engineering at the University of San Diego. He is passionate about creating engaging experiences for his students. His work is primarily focused on two areas: engineering education and design. Professor Hoople’s engineering education research examines the ways
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Business Model Canvas (BMC) (Osterwalder et al., 2010).Rather than creating market value, as in the BMC, the intention is to help a faculty member intentionallynavigate a career of fulfilment and purpose. Just as the BMC implies that there is no one way to start asuccessful business, there is no one way to be a successful faculty member. Several design principles from 1the BMC were used. First, a canvas is a single page, with large blank spaces that invite exploration andflexibility. Simple frameworks reduce cognitive load and can be more easily internalized, such that theycan become a persistent mental image to help make future decisions