questions were based on the students’survey developed by the researchers at Georgetown and HEDS [14-15] , and modified accordingto the peculiar aspects of our university. Because many of the engineering classes at SJSUinclude laboratories, projects or other group experiences, we wanted to create our own survey toask faculty members about these experiences. The research questions of the study are: 1. What are the impressions of faculty members to the learning environments in engineering courses after the switch to remote learning in Spring 2020? 2. What was the impact of the switch online in Spring 2020 to lab classes?COVID-19 forced many universities to transition quickly to remote teaching. Since Spring 2020,there was been many articles
students, and postdoctoral scholars are trained in a multidisciplinary environment, utilizing modern methodologies to address important problems at the interface between chemistry, physics, engineering, American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33358 and biology preparing the trainees for careers in academe, national laboratories, and industry. In addition to research, she devotes significant time developing and implementing effective pedagogical approaches in her teaching of undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem
101 universitiesfrom 9 different countries expressed interest in the program, which are summarized in Table 1. Table 1. Overall participation in Virtual Communities of Practice. Total unique participants signing up for VCPs 191 Total institutions represented 101 Total countries represented 9 Regular attendance– 5 VCPs in aggregate 27 – 85 Table 2. Topics of five chemical engineering virtual communities. Topic(s) of VCP Laboratory Design Mass and Energy Balances
. There, he also served as the program director for Entrepreneurship Across the University. Prior, Doug was the Director of Research & Development for Digisonix Incorporated. His disciplinary specializations include signal processing, acoustics, and wireless communications.Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Dr. Mark L. Nagurka, Marquette
sustainable superiority.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research assistants and has received multi-agency funding for energy systems analysis and develop- ment. Sponsor examples include the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and NASA. Dr. Haynes also develops fuel cells and
quick. At San José State University (SJSU), students and faculty were given lessthan one week to prepare to teach and take classes remotely. Most faculty at SJSU had nevertaught online before this dramatic shift in March 2020 and both faculty and students werechallenged to finish the semester. Most SJSU engineering classes are offered in the traditionalface-to-face mode with in-person laboratories and project classes. Because of COVID-19, allSJSU classes, including those in the College of Engineering, went to a remote mode.The object of this study was to determine the impact of the sudden move to remote learning onengineering students at SJSU through a survey and interviews. By supplementing the surveyswith interviews of students, this study
outcome expectations as manyquestioned their likelihood for success in the tenure-track job market.Following Stake’s (1995) third step of pattern recognition, more precise content was developedthrough grouping associated data, developing fuse codes, and refining the themes identifiedacross the interview data. This process enabled the researchers to identify common backgroundexperiences that influenced career interests and, ultimately, career decisions. For instance,postdoctoral scholars who experienced strong, formalized mentoring as students desired toreplicate mentoring in their laboratories, and those who had support and resources to do so feltempowered and optimistic they could continue this work as a professor. Those who experiencedbarriers
idea of doing research on one’s ownteaching [18] are both relevant. This idea has also been taken up (independently) in the US byAngelo and Cross [22], and Cross and Steadman [23]. The former concerning ClassroomAssessment Techniques (CATS), and the latter, classroom research. We are strongly influencedhere by the position of Patricia Cross, who claimed that teaching in higher education would notacquire status until teachers treated their classrooms as laboratories for research. The “new”discipline of engineering education research, the question of who should be doing it, and how itcan be accomplished with rigor has been discussed at FIE and ASEE since 2000 [24]. Takentogether, these essays argue that there is such a thing as a “scholarship of
information to help international students and faculty navigate the difficult time. 2. Addressing logistics: Around half of the universities used the web pages to address logistics related information. These included resources for faculty and students alike on which buildings were still open, recommendations for use of laboratory spaces, booking of meeting rooms and conference rooms and guidelines for gathering indoors. 3. Promoting wellness - both physical and mental: Around a third of the universities used the web pages to promote wellness, both physical and mental. Some universities provided links to indoor exercises, while others promoted mindfulness and encouraged mental wellbeing. 4. Showcasing
summer research program affects graduate students and postdocs. Through analysis ofevaluation data from mentors in the Transfer-to-Excellence Research Experiences forUndergraduates program, we hope to understand how the mentoring relationship preparesgraduate students and postdocs for faculty careers at diversifying university campuses.Transfer-to-Excellence Program OverviewThe Transfer-to-Excellence Research Experiences for Undergraduates (TTE REU) program wasfounded in 2012 at the University of California, Berkeley. Each summer, the program hostsCalifornia community college students in the laboratories of UC Berkeley faculty. The programis intended to inspire California community college students to transfer to a four-year universityand pursue
courses including: Plant Design and Economics, Unit Operations and Separations, Plant Design Project, Bioseparations, Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory, Transport Labora- tory, and Mathematical Methods for Chemical Engineers. Dr. White has received a 2017 ASEE Chemical Engineering Summer School Poster Award and a Best Poster Award from the Chemical Engineering Divi- sion of ASEE for his poster presentation at the 2019 Annual Conference. He has also been voted Professor of the Year for the 2015-2016, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019 academic years by the UC Davis chapter of AIChE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Design Thinking Approach to Identify Barriers to Engineering