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
, andcreating and managing budgets are inherently entrepreneurial activities. The three Cs, curiosity,connections, and creating value, used in the KEEN EM framework, are useful for facultydevelopment. Engineering faculty instill curiosity in their students every day and are curiousabout solving research problems, they make connections when they teach in class and performresearch, and create value when they teach courses students want to take and solve researchproblems organizations wish to fund. This paper prepares the foundation for a robust, holisticapproach to faculty development using the three Cs. The career planning support at threedifferent institutions is summarized and the concept of a career strategic plan is discussed.Recommended
physical activity levels to travel modes, transportation mobility for the transportation disadvantaged, and the development of planning and transit performance measures for access to opportunities, integrating sustainability into the engineering curriculum and creating an engi- neering sustainability minor. He has published several articles in the Transportation Research Record, other journals and conferences on these and other related topics. He is currently serving on the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Aircraft/Airport Compatibility and is a past member of the TRB Committees on Traffic Flow and Characteristics and Transportation Network Modeling. Stephen is also a member of the Ameri- can Society
resulting in a diverse group of faculty participants from approximately 30schools. Aside from travel and lodging support for the duration of the workshop, no other financial incentiveswere provided to participants.Experienced engineering faculty serve as facilitators whoplan, coordinate, and deliver the workshops and otherexperienced engineering faculty serve as coaches whoengage with participants at and after the workshop for oneyear. Coaches may attend all or part of a workshop or joinvirtually, most typically at the end of the workshop to learnparticipant plans for their project, module, and/or activity.In each workshop, scheduled for three days, the facultyparticipants were trained on both evidence-basedpedagogical tools and methods to
faculty in engineering educationresearch, regardless of institution type. While only a small fraction of CAREER proposals arerecommended for funding, former EEC deputy director Sue Kemnitzer frequently remindedapplicants that the process of applying for a CAREER award has value in itself. By this claim,she included the self-reflection on a faculty member’s research agenda, a plan to integrate theresearch and education activities throughout the individual’s career, and the discussions heldbetween the early career faculty member and their department chair, senior mentors, and, insome cases, deans and other constituencies. These key activities provide many opportunities forfaculty development and encouraging growth in all aspects of faculty life
; accountability from theirpeers; dedicated time and space to work on their new ideas. For a course redesign plan facultyhad to develop student-learning outcomes, an assessment plan, and an implementation plan forthe course changes. In addition, for fully participating, faculty received a summer salarysupplement and an additional supplement after implementing the class changes and assessing thesuccess of those changes.Twenty faculty participated in the summer 2019 program with 95% of the workshop participantsmeeting all of the summer program requirements, including presenting their work/plans at thefinal summer meeting. During the 2019-2020 academic year, faculty implemented their coursechanges and were required to submit a final deliverable focusing on
. Teresa Lee Tinnell, University of Louisville Terri Tinnell is a STEM Education Curriculum and Instruction PhD Candidate and Graduate Research As- sistant at the University of Louisville. Research interests include: interdisciplinary faculty development, first-year engineering student retention, STEM teacher education, and collaborative, team-based learning experiences.Dr. Thomas Tretter, Thomas Tretter is professor of science education and director of the Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Plan- etarium at the University of Louisville. His scholarship includes collaborative efforts with science and engineering faculty targeting retention of STEM majors in entry-level STEM courses.Dr. Marie Brown
Paper ID #34254Framework for Engineering Faculty Competencies: The Case of anEngineering School in Latin AmericaDr. Ang´elica Burbano, Universidad Icesi Angelica Burbano C.,holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas. She holds a MSOM from Universidad Icesi and a BS in industrial engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana both in Cali, Colombia. She is a Fulbright Scholar 2007 and a fellow AOTS, Japan 2000. Angelica has previous experience (six years) in the food manufacturing industry (experience related to inventory man- agement and production planning and control, also information
Paper ID #34459Lessons Learned: College Student Surveys as a Professional DevelopmentToolDr. Dick Apronti, Angelo State University Dick Apronti is an assistant professor at Angelo State University. He teaches transportation engineering courses, engineering graphics, and plane surveying. His research interests are in transportation safety and planning. Dick Apronti also has interests in projects that improve access to higher education and college retention for minorities and under-represented groups. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Lessons
. Therefore, the mission of the college administrators includes appropriating resourcesand support to this community and developing programs parallel to those programs provided totenure-track and tenured faculty [2-6]. This deliberate effort, furthermore, reinforces and alignswith the ongoing equity and inclusion efforts at the college.Using the work environment plan provided by Dr. Emily Boyd at last year’s ASEE conference[7] as well as needs self-assessments conducted at the college, administrators identified strategiesand deployed resources to better support and build community among lecturers [2-6, 8]. Twomajor types of practices were implemented, 1) practices to create an organizational structure tosupport lecturer development and 2) practices
Congress andExposition), the Board of Governors’ strategic planning retreat, the ASME Boiler and PressureVessel Conference, and attend an ASME Annual Meeting. Being selected into this distinctiveProgram significantly enhanced my leadership and project management skills, and enabled me toexpand my professional network. Most notably, together with fellow 2018 ECLIPSE memberswe developed structured material to raise awareness of the Society and highlight the manybenefits to early-career ASME engineer membership and volunteerism. Content in the form ofbrochures and email templates included a business case and guidance for early-career individuals(less than 10 years) on how to gain support from their employer or institution for time spentperforming
evolved into during the pilot phase. By describing in detail ourprocess, we aim to provide a flexible guide by which other units might adapt and develop similarprograms to help faculty enhance their teaching. We show that program success—as far as wecan see it in these early stages—is characterized by a focus on understanding stakeholder—especially instructor—needs around teaching, embracing a process that distributes power andleadership throughout planning and decision-making, investing organizational support throughtime and money, and assessing progress and goals regularly.To do this, we first situate our peer review of teaching program within the broader context of ourdepartment’s formation and existing models for evaluation of teaching. We
aroundenergy storage technologies and energy education. Widespread adoption of energy storage isonly beginning in the U.S. and, subsequently, energy storage-related educational programs arefew; conversely, energy storage education efforts have already been pioneered and established inEurope, most notably in Germany. As a result, CREATE leveraged its history of improvingenergy education through international cooperation and organized a study tour to Germany fornine renewable energy educators to examine innovations in renewable energy and energy storageand to research how these technologies are incorporated into German workforce preparation.In the planning and conducting international professional development opportunities foreducators, two distinct
of professional valuesand attitudes). According to Eaton et al. [1], some teaching activities in the online environmenthave “the potentials to cultivate deeper learning experiences, but they can fail to do so ifactivities are not designed and implemented properly.” The rapid switch to online instruction inMarch 2020 did not allow faculty members to train, plan and reflect upon the best teachingmodes for online instruction, unless they had previously taught an online class. Therefore, aswith many other researchers, we consider the Spring semester to be an example of remotelearning rather than planned online learning [3].In October 2020, the Chronicle of Higher Education conducted a survey among faculty membersin US institutions to gain
. Theworkshop was designed to help educators at Duke University translate knowledge to practice. Italso provided a learning opportunity for the presenters to refine plans and materials for theSkillful Learning Institute (SLI), an NSF sponsored virtual short course for educators. Herein, weprovide perspectives of the host site and the presenters. By providing the two perspectives, ourlessons learned are enriched and should help those who invite speakers in for facultydevelopment and those who are creating faculty development activities. Hosted before thepandemic, the workshop design consisted of an initial virtual session, a two day in-personworkshop, and a follow-up virtual session.Purpose of WorkshopHost Site Motivation. A formalized group of faculty
to involve the stakeholders in solutiondevelopment if the solution is to be adopted by them. A human-centered design orientation isespecially important when creating and implementing strategies that require the stakeholders tochange, because it integrates local and often contradictory knowledge and contexts with thecreation and implementation processes [13-15].It is worth taking note that industries are increasingly taking a design thinking approach [16, 17]to develop and implement solutions for employee engagement, and strategic planning [17].However, the application of design thinking approach to education sector/ educational reformseems under-utilized in higher education [19-22] and mostly limited to K-12 grades [18]. Here,we hypothesize
distributed. 2. A workshop for faculty in the College of Engineering (COE) that was conducted during every departments’ regular faculty meetings. 3. Discussion sessions were conducted with faculty who taught project-based courses. 4. Informal lunch sessions to encourage sharing of effective strategies were proposed.Each component of this approach is described in greater detail below.1. Resource (‘One Pager’)An important part of the initiative was the creation of a detailed resource which containedinformation in the form of organized steps on how to make a traditional classroom moreinclusive. The authors initially planned on creating a one-page resource but quickly realized thedifficulty in this task due to the volume of information that
training and has plans for additional larger-scale modifications in the coming year. In addition to the start-of-semester orientation andtraining, the department will follow up with focused training sessions during the first few weeksof the semester. The planned topics are (1) effective interaction with students in labs and officehours and (2) effective and efficient grading and relevant software tools. In addition, thedepartment is considering a new model in which lab sections are larger but are staffed by twoGTAs so that new GTAs can be paired with more experienced GTAs for ongoing mentoring andinformal training.To deepen our understanding of GTA perceptions of their preparation for the role and to providemore effective ongoing training, the
switching between tasks(parallel task completion). Although the nature of a faculty position does not always allow one to choosebetween serial or parallel task completion, there is often a great deal of autonomy if one can become moreintentional about how one works. On the timescale of months, the FDC can help plan out the balancebetween intrinsic and extrinsic activities. Spending too much time only completing either intrinsic orextrinsic tasks can be a warning sign. As faculty developers, we can suggest using the canvas withorganizational tools (e.g., Slack, Trello, or other project management software), that can track andsequence actions. On the timescale of years and decades, a faculty member will likely change theirbehavior patterns and even
thrive in this place. Plan to explore several case studies that are specific to the engineering classroom. Keynote: Recipe Learn about how you can harness your goals and mindset to make time for Success: management decisions that support your best self and your best work. Balance, Purpose, and Excellence Workshop 3: Preparation and awareness of effective presentation skills will build your Presentation Skills credibility as a teacher who knows the material and knows how to help others understand it. This workshop focuses on delivery skills and the opportunities you have to help your students learn. You will be asked to do a practice
intent that these changes will have impacts on improving the culture of the departmentand the educational experience for students. This department is planning on using Scrum as theirprimary mechanism for departmental operations.ScrumScrum is an agile methodology that encourages the collaboration among members of a ScrumTeam in the incremental development of a product [18]. The development emphasized achievinga minimal viable product. This product is developed over a series of Sprints (timeboxes). Sprintscan last one to four weeks long. During a Sprint the Scrum Teams works on items from a productbacklog that lead to the release of the product. The product backlog is generated by productowner. Each backlog item is prioritized for its value and
intern’s research project. They sharedthat being involved in designing their interns’ project improved their ability to develop a“realistic clear experimental plan." Because of the rigid and time-bound structure of the program,the mentors had to ensure the plan was achievable within eight-weeks and that the intern wouldhave data to present at the conclusion of their summer internship. Additionally, the interns’limited background knowledge and lack of research experience required that mentors createprojects that specifically fit their abilities. This is supported by the following evaluation data: It has strengthened my ability in terms of developing a research project that is tractable for a fresh person to come in and contribute
&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
, because such teaching brought them into closer proximity with students andsuch experiences brought out students’ passion [19]. We argue that the 2020 pandemic, whichbrought about an abrupt shift to teaching online, provided a fair test of faculty beliefs andrevealed a great deal about their values related to student learning. With little time to plan,faculty might have “relapsed” into well-known ways of teaching, suggesting the change wasincomplete or superficial.In this paper, we present evidence of successful and sustained faculty change during thistransitional period based on our previous work. We were particularly interested in investigatingwhether shifts in faculty instructional practices were sustained during the COVID-19 pandemic.This
Central New Mexico Community College where she manages the college-wide accreditation and strategic plan. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020From Q&A to Norm & Adapt: The Roles of Peers in Changing Faculty Beliefs and PracticeAbstractThis research paper reports on the impact of professional development across four years of amajor change initiative. Research suggests students from groups underrepresented in engineeringare particularly vulnerable to poor teaching, drawing inaccurate conclusions about their fit andpotential. However, supporting faculty to make their teaching more inclusive and learner-centered can be challenging. Faculty may not have experienced such
each FLC meeting, there is also an opportunity for faculty to reflect, take notes,and consider assessment techniques when implementing these strategies.Faculty receive individual support through coaching and timely feedback from the FLCfacilitators. Twice a year, a facilitator meets one-on-one with each participant. The first session isat the start of the program, and it focuses on getting to know the faculty member and their goalsof the FLC. The second session is in the spring as they begin to plan their KEEN Card. Thefacilitator provides feedback during and outside of the FLC meetings, particularly for theirasynchronous work of these small implementations and their KEEN Card plans.Data Collection and Analysis
circumstances, finding themselves and their studentsdistraught and stressed and in need of immediate support from the administration. Our Division of Information Technology (DoIT), prior to the switch, invested in creatingresources for online teaching. However, due to high requests for immediate professionaldevelopment, they quickly developed a training program “for instructors who wish to take amore deliberate and holistic approach to preparing their courses for remote, synchronous andasynchronous, online instruction [1].” The Planning Instructional Variety for Online Teaching(PIVOT) provided “...evidence-based principles for how people learn and share many of the bestpractices of teaching in face-to-face classrooms, but leverages those
. Cindy is an associate editor for environmental chemistry for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University at West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University. Dr. Main examines student academic pathways and transitions to the workforce in science and engineering. She was a recipi- ent of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Award, the 2015 Frontiers in Education
systems mapping approach that can be used byfaculty developers and CTLs to engage faculty, students, administrators, and other stakeholders;2) highlight an example application of this systems thinking approach to student success andretention in engineering; and 3) explore potential benefits of systems mapping. The expectedoutcomes of this paper are to provide the reader an introduction to systems mapping via anexample application and prompt the reader to consider using systems thinking and systemsmapping in their faculty development and CTL planning or as an alternative way to gatherperspectives from faculty, students, and other stakeholders. Here, the focus is on using systemsmapping as a way to gather stakeholders’ perspectives to help identify
, 2020Lessons Learned: Teaching and Learning Academy Workshop to Promote an Asset-based Mindset among STEM facultyAbstractThis lessons learned paper describes the strategies in planning, organizing, and delivering aTeaching and Learning Academy Workshop that focused on bridging the cultural and perceptiongap between faculty and students in math and engineering classrooms. Grounded in Yosso’sCommunity Cultural Wealth model, the workshop was designed to engage participants in asequence of reflective and conversational activities that allowed the faculty to connect their owneducational experiences with their expectation towards the students, and recognize the strengthof the students in terms of their cultural wealth in Aspirational