process and a vision and education value canvas was developed.A second major component of our project was teaching innovation processes to the faculty so theycould better assess their teaching projects and engage in continuous experimental improvement.Although we anticipated that the Education Value Canvas would be the guiding principles for thefaculty teaching innovators, as the first cohort of teaching innovators approached the one-yearpoint, we realized that the sharing, learning, and frameworks that helped scaffold the innovationprocess throughout the year were engaging faculty more than the mission and value canvas. Wedecided to reformulate the teaching retreat in the Antigua Forum format with the purpose beingsharing, reformulating, and
with faculty across the United States.” o “I appreciated hearing their stories and learning from them.” o “Seeing other peoples' curriculum work was constructive and helped provide ideas for future projects in various implementation styles.” Summary of ThemesDue to space limitations, only one theme is fully shared. The other themes (and sub-themes) aresummarized in Figure 3. Figure 3. Summary of Themes and Sub-ThemesLessons LearnedThere are three key lessons learned.First, of the six tools, faculty participants found three tools particularly helpful. • Peer Feedback Tuning Protocol (https://www.sotlaccelerator.com/s/Tool-2-Peer-Feedback- Tuning-Protocol.pdf): Participants commented on the
of technical projects that empower the next generation of engineering students.Francisco Osuna, The University of Texas at El Paso Francisco Osuna is a Software Engineer with a Master’s in Computer Science from The University of Texas at El Paso with over 15 years of experience designing and developing robust software systems. Francisco spearheaded the design and development of Engage, a groundbreaking student success information management system that has been adopted by over 25 national academic institutions. This project alone has transformed academic administration by streamlining processes, reducing reporting overhead by an impressive 95%, and delivering on-time results through meticulous project management.Angel
training goals? ● What is the format of your training ? ● What kind of incentives do you use to motivate participation? ● What are your core challenges?Summarizing and disseminating this information can help other institutions and inform futureprojects pertaining to ongoing developments in TA training particularly institutions with limitedresources. Table 1 summarizes the key facets of this work and full details are included below.Who are the key players of TA training?Of the eight programs reviewed for this project, three are administered by a Center for Teaching& Learning (CTL), whether it be at the University-level or College-level, supplemented withsome level of graduate student facilitation. An additional three are directly run
Paper ID #39087”Say It Anyhow You Can”: Unpacking How Engineering Faculty MembersApproach Culturally Relevant Engineering Education at an Iraqi UniversityMoses Olayemi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Moses Olayemi is a Doctoral Candidate and Bilsland Dissertation Fellow in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests revolve around the professional development of engineering educators in low resource/post-conflict settings and the design and contextualization of in- struments to measure the impact of educational interventions. Research projects on these topics have and are currently
, Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering at Virginia TechCurricular Problem. Developing communication skills that target non-technical audiences,particularly the general public and community stakeholders impacted by mining operations.Solution. Integrating a communications-based “Sustainability Project” into a sophomore levelcourse on leadership, ethics, and responsible mining. The project consists of two deliverables: awritten op-ed and an Oxford style debate.8Educational Environment. Virginia Tech’s Department of Mining and Minerals Engineeringinitiated its “Writing and Communications Program,” in the mid 1990s to develop critical spoken,written, and visual communication skills that its graduates will quickly rely upon early in theircareers
a Teaching Professor in the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research and teaching are focused on course redesign, active learning, and project-based learning. He also co-directs a hands-on undergraduate research program called Engineers for Exploration, in which students apply their engineering knowledge to problems in exploration and conservation.Dr. Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego Dr.Huihui Qi is an Associate Teaching Professor in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at the University of California San Diego. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress: Faculty Experiences and Learning Through
. Matthew G. Green, LeTourneau University Matthew Green serves as Associate Dean in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at LeTourneau University in Texas. His objective is to practice and promote engineering as a serving profession. He has taught and developed design courses for all undergraduate years, and has taught courses such as Dynamics, Thermodynamics, and Machine Design. Past projects include remote power generation, design methods for frontier environments, enhanced engineering learning, and assistive devices for persons with disabilities. He coordinates ABET accreditation activities for LeTourneau University. ©American
activities up to larger-scale multi-week projects. Faculty were able to use theseimplementation guides to build connections with their courses. FLC adaptations during three-year implementationThe goal of the UNC KEEN FLC was to integrate and increase the use of EML-based strategiesto improve learning for students. However, the FLC was intended to also improve facultyinstruction with evidence-based approaches. Over the three iterations of the FLC, we adapted thecurriculum topics and approach based on our observations of the needs of the participants. We faced many challenges during the first year of the UNC KEEN FLC Program. Thecurriculum was initially designed to focus strictly on the outcomes and components of the KEENFramework. Secondly, the
Pedagogy and Psychology, Training Technology, Instruction Design, Soft Skills, Gender Studies, Student Guidance and Counselling, Mentoring, Emotional Intel- ligence, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Yoga, Mudras and Healing techniques. She has Coordinated more than 250 short term and overseas programmes. She Coordinated the M.Tech(HRD) programme of the Institute. She has trained more than 300 international teachers and administrators. She is Offering a course on MHRD SWAYAM Platform, covering 19,500 learners in 4 batches. She has Completed 5 doctoral Dissertations in Engineering Education. She has guided M.Tech (HRD), MCA and Overseas Trainees’ Projects. She has published around 30 papers in Journals and presented sev
Engineering School, then as a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State in 2019. Her research focuses on sensors, combining organic materials, including polymers and biological cells, with conventional devices.Dr. Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park Vincent P. Nguyen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a founding member of the Environmental and Socially Responsible Engineering (ESRE) group who work to integrate and track conscientious engineering aspects throughout the undergraduate educational experience across the college. His efforts include formally integrating sustainability design requirements into the mechanical engineering capstone projects
. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has
Paper ID #36711Work in Progress: Let’s Play — Improving Our Teaching by Reversing Rolesand Being a Learner with Board GamesDr. Peter Jamieson, Miami University Dr. Jamieson is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Miami University. His research focuses on Education, Games, and FPGAs.Dr. Eric James Rapos, Miami University Dr. Eric Rapos is an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering at Miami University, specializing in research in tool and interface design aimed at collaboration and user interaction. Recent projects have involved virtual reality, voice interfaces, and sketch
study conducted by theauthors, thus already familiar to them.Participants and settingOne of the goals of the larger project in which this WIP is situated seeks to explore theinstructional practices of instructors of foundational electrical engineering classes. Consequently,two instructors were invited to participate in this pilot study. One instructor is a female whoteaches the Embedded Systems course, while the other is a male teaching Intro to ECE Concepts;both have more than 7 years of experience teaching these courses.Data CollectionWe conducted in-person interviews with the two instructors. The interviews were video recordedand lasted between 20 to 30 minutes. All interviews were conducted by the first author, and thevideo recordings of
approach can be adopted by institutions,including optimizing faculty and staff support, establishing a faculty development andmentoring program, permitting flexibility in work schedules, improving productivity ofmeetings, and managing communication tools [6]. To help give faculty members skills tosupport students with mental health challenges and to help them increase their own mentalwell-being and fight burnout, the TLC took on several new programs related to holistic facultydevelopment, focusing on mental health. The projects included a summer book club related to teaching and student mentalhealth; mental health first aid training for faculty; and free licenses for the Calm app, an appused for increasing mental well-being. The programs
individual and institutional scale, andthen developing models to combat perceived challenges. Borrego et al. [5] provided a statisticalanalysis of survey responses to determine what qualities department chairs are looking for whencontemplating proposed educational innovations. The difficulties of implementing Problem-Based Learning (PBL) are highlighted in [4], in which they outline several common barriers andprovide detailed strategies for fitting them into course projects and activities. A more generalsystematic approach is presented in [6] which sets up a framework for addressing and resolvingbarriers to student learning outcomes and faculty-driven curricular modifications. A seven-stepplan is prescribed which focuses on the goals, objects
LS# LS Description P1 P2 P3 1 Leveraging web-based interactive methods to measure student understanding and adjust synchronous lecture content accordingly in real time. 2 Use of case-studies where students problem solve historical or hypothetical situations in course assignments (projects/homework/etc.) 3 Fostering collaboration and group work among students in class. (This could be assigning group projects, pairing students to work together on homework, creating “break-out rooms” for students to work on problems in synchronous class meetings or office hours.) 4 Introducing lessons (either synchronously or asynchronously) by presenting
between fundingreceived, or expected, from external grants. To help resolve issues related to spaces for studentwork, projects, and labs, the recommendations were focused on clearly identifying safety issuesrelated to the activities allowed in the spaces, the time of the day the spaces are open to students,and the need to have secured access and monitoring of the spaces. Other recommendations madeby the workshop participants included taking advantage of surplus or rotated equipmentprograms that federal labs and some industry partners may run to help reduce the funds that theprograms themselves must provide.Five of the seven statements in this theme fall into a potentially more informative pattern. Inaddition to being rated a 4 or 5 with a
Identification, and Value Creation into Problem-basedLearning Modules with Examples and Assessment Specific to Fluid Mechanics,” Proceedings ofthe 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, June 2016.[17] L. Liu, J. Mynderse, A. Gerhart, and S. Arslan, “Fostering the Entrepreneurial Mindset inthe Junior and Senior Mechanical Engineering Curriculum with a Multi-Course Problem-basedLearning Experience,” Proceedings of the 45th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference,El Paso, TX, October 2015.[18] A.L. Gerhart, D.D. Carpenter, and R.W. Fletcher, “Developing Design and ProfessionalSkills through Project-based Learning focused on the Grand Challenges for Engineering,”Proceedings of the International Symposium on Project Approaches in
inengineering education at HSIs. The findings are expected to provide guidance for furtherresearch, inform policy decisions, and help shape practices that lead to a more inclusive andsupportive engineering educational environment. Specifically, we offer implications to betterserve Latinx and BIPOC engineering students and their communities at HSIs. MethodsTo better understand the implications from existing literature for engineering faculty membersand administrators at HSIs, we conducted a systematic review of literature on engineeringeducation at HSIs. This paper is part of a larger project for which we collected article data thataddressed STEM undergraduate education at HSIs. With specific inclusion
for engineering educators to leverageinvolvement in entrepreneurship education through an activity and a potential paper related tobest teaching practices on their P&T portfolio documents. It is recommended that engineeringschools and colleges offer these experiences, especially for engineering instructors formallytrained in technical and disciplinary areas. Anecdotal evidence suggests this approach works for the following reasons. First, itpromotes accountability. Second, it allows for networking. Third, it encourages collaborationsacross projects. Fourth, the virtual nature of the program increases accessibility and equity. Fifth,there are multiple incentives (in addition to the four previously mentioned), including a stipendand
from her experience design surgical instru- ments in the medical device industry, leading diversity and outreach initiatives for MIT’s Office of Engi- neering Outreach, and launching STEM programs in Design Thinking, Computer Science, and Robotics at a K-12 charter school. As an engineering educator and researcher, she is passionate about breaking down barriers and transforming engineering into a more inclusive field. In addition, her teaching focuses on the implementation of authentic project-based learning to develop students’ 21st century skills such as collaboration and ill-structured problem-solving. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Conceptual Framework
faculty” to refer to clinical and professional faculty, like ourselves, whoin addition to teaching, have some responsibility to develop a domain of practice. Looselytranslated, it is generally understood at Purdue University that C/P faculty focus on teaching and“some other thing.”Our Purpose and ProcessThis project came about as a series of conversations. First by one author (Jamie) sharing a pieceof his story with a colleague, who responded with, “Wow, I think more people would beinterested in hearing about this job shift.” Then, another conversation a short while later thatcemented the idea to document this change from teaching at a small, teaching focused school to alarge, research-focused one. During a faculty orientation session prior to
affect student experiences [15], [16].By understanding the experiences of instructors of varying levels of involvement in the design ofthe modules and expertise in the MBSE content, this work-in-progress paper aims to providehelpful insights for other instructional designers or instructors that might teach online modules.Our team has previously designed a series of online, asynchronous modules informed by the CoIframework to respond to the industrial needs of MBSE training [17]. Our modules are designedfor learners who are interested in understanding the value, functions, and offer themopportunities to apply their learning in projects. Our guiding research question is “What are theexperiences like for instructors who used our pre-designed MBSE
advisors and Ph.D. student advisees at UMass Lowell. Previ- ously, Ha worked for eight years as the Program Manager of DifferenceMaker, a campus-wide student entrepreneurship initiative at UMass Lowell. There, she co-created and managed the Mentor program. Ha is also an adjunct faculty member at the Manning School of Business at UMass Lowell. Prior to join- ing UMass Lowell, Ha spent ten years working for The World Bank in Vietnam. In this role, she assisted small and medium enterprises in raising financial capital and acquiring technical consulting services. Ha also managed projects focused on capacity building for industry clusters. Ha holds a B.A. in English from Vietnam National University, an MBA from UMass Lowell
STEM [4]. So, although this research project applies to all UD faculty, engineering and relatedfaculty are disproportionately involved and impacted.UD has also been investing in improving departmental climates and diversity, equity, andinclusion on campus. As part of this work, in spring 2020, UD faculty participated in theCOACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey. This survey, developed at the Harvard GraduateSchool of Education, measures faculty perceptions of various aspects of worklife. Despiteconducting the survey in spring 2020, a semester significantly disrupted by the COVID-19pandemic, UD’s survey response rate was 40%. COACHE determined that most responses werecollected before the disruption and performed a special analysis to determine
sources were part of a larger research project with the researchethics protocol approved by the Canadian university.In the survey, instructors were asked about the changes in their teaching practices and theirprofessional development activities from 2020 to 2022; their perceptions of certain teachingpractices in terms of teaching effectiveness; and their views on how to move forward. Theresponse rate of the instructor survey was 20%, based on the completed 81 responses. Of the 81instructors who completed the survey, 64% were tenure-stream faculty members, and 36% wereteaching-stream faculty members or sessional instructors. The respondents had varying lengthsof teaching experience, with 43% having taught more than 20 years, 29% having 11 to 20
, Architectural Technology, and a Master’s in Facility Management. His field experience includes residential and light commercial construction. He has been an architectural designer as well as superintendent for single and multi-family residential construction projects. Mr. Ray worked as an engineering design manager in the Building Components Manufacturing Industry for over fifteen years.Dr. Brandon Sorge, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Brandon Sorge is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education Research in the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. His research interests include all aspects of STEM education, espeDr. Katrenia Reed
Texas A&M University, serves engineering faculty by managing course design projects and providing support to faculty through one-on- one consultations, presenting workshops, and developing online training and tutorials. She has over 18 years of experience in Higher education in libraries, web development, instructional design, and distance learning, where she has offered workshops and classes to undergraduate students and K-12 teachers. She also holds an online adjunct faculty position at the University of Arizona Global Campus, teaching Information literacy and research skills to adult learners.Dr. Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University Dr. Palsole is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Remote Engineering Education
first speaker chosen was a professor and department head for an engineering departmentlocated at a university in the United Kingdom. The presentation focused on their development ofan interdisciplinary engineering program that serves as something of an extended first-yearengineering program, providing problem- and project-based work for students in their first twoyears of school before they matriculate into a traditional engineering discipline. The follow-upbook purchased for attendees who wanted a copy was Wenger-Trayner et al.’s “Learning inLandscapes of Practice” [6].The second speaker was an associate professor within a department of engineering education at auniversity within the United States. The second talk explored intersections