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
the Department of Computer Science and a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research investigates how learning technologies and transformative practices can improve learning, engage students, and broaden participation in computer science and engineering.Mrs. Robin Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio Robin Nelson is a doctoral student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching and is pursuing a cognate in Instructional Technology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests include the development of TPACK in preservice teachers, evidence-based teaching strategies, and the use of
a newly expanded graduate teaching assistant (GTA) training programin a computer science department. As part of an NSF-funded project that aims to transformteaching practices in highly enrolled gateway STEM courses, the computer science (CS)department at a research-focused state institution is working to integrate active learning practicesin its CS 1 (freshman level) and CS 2 (sophomore level) courses. The combined courses haveenrollments of nearly 1,000 students each semester, with lecture sections of 100-200 studentsand software lab sections of 25-30 students. Lab sections are led by GTAs, and hence GTAprofessional development plays a large role in transforming the teaching and learning approachesin these courses.The CS department at the
. She has examined Self Determination Theory as a framework to explain how the environment impacts well-being for faculty, students in general, and student veterans. Her other work includes the intersection of personality and vocational interest as well as how counselors learn to become effective in their work with clients.Prof. Mack Shelley, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Mack Shelley holds the titled position of University Professor of Political Science, Statistics, and School of Education. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Political Science. His research and teaching focuses on public policy. He has extensive experience with grants- and contracts-funded research and evaluation for
University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #32676 Stacy Tantum received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Tufts University in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 1996 and 1998, respec- tively. She is currently an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Duke University. Her research interests include statistical signal processing with appli- cations in the areas of machine learning for efficient sparse model inversion
Paper ID #29487Lessons Learned: Teaching and Learning Academy Workshop to promoteAsset-based mindset among STEM facultyDr. Daniel Galvan, California State University, Los Angeles Dr. Daniel Galvan is Director of Acceleration Initiatives and Student Engagement in the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at California State University, Los Angeles. He has an extensive background in facilitating asset-based approaches towards teaching through equity-minded workshops in community colleges, public, and private four-year institutions. He received his BA in Soci- ology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, his MA
applications in MEMS and medical devices as well as autonomous vehicles and robotics. She also holds the patent for the continuous trace gas separa- tor and a provisional patent for the dynamic tumor ablation probe. She is passionate about Engineering Education and experienced in developing inverted classroom lectures and facilitating students’ learning through authentic engineering problems. She is currently the Co- PI for the NSF Revolutionizing Engi- neering and Computer Science Departments grant awarded to the Mechanical Engineering department at Seattle University to study how the department culture changes can foster students’ engineering identity with the long-term goal of increasing the representation of women and
Learning Opportunities. Through this grant entrepreneurial learning has been integrated into courses spanning all four years in seven ABET accredited engineering and computer science BS programs. Faculty development on entrepreneurial minded learning is a part of this effort.Dr. Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven Maria-Isabel Carnasciali is an Assistant Provost for Program Assessment and Effectiveness at the Uni- versity of New Haven, CT. She is also an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the De- partment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and her Bachelors of Engineering from MIT. She has over 12 years of experience in
Paper ID #32647Lessons Learned: How Our Agile Department Survived the COVID-19 PivotDr. Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego Diana A. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. She earned her BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, and MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from Clemson University. In collaboration with colleagues, Chen is designing a new engineering curriculum to educate changemakers who understand that engineering is an inherently socio-technical activity. Her scholarly interests include engineering education that contextualizes engineering sciences and
Paper ID #32659Lessons Learned: Adapting to Aid Faculty for Teaching in a PandemicDr. Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Stephanie Cutler has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She is an Assistant Research Professor and the As- sessment and Instructional Support Specialist in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State as well as a co-founder of Zappe and Cutler Educational Consulting, LLC. Her primary research interests include faculty development, the peer review process, the
20 34Students miss social interactions and work with other students 12 20Student did not like online learning 9 14Important thing is to reduce risk from COVID 9 10Student needs to be more proactive in online classes 8 9Other CommentsGraduation issues 5 5Job search and internship issues 3 6Internet, computer and connectivity issues 3 3Student has learning disability 1
computational mechanics. His major areas of research interest are structural engineer- ing, construction, sustainable infrastructure, new material development, physical and numerical modeling of structures, and engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Evaluation of Teaching through Online Tools and Canvas Learning Management System at Morgan State UniversityIntroductionThe novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic demanded a rapid transition of education in theUnited States to remote and online learning in less than a month. Prior to COVID-19, quarantineand social distancing were not commonplace in the lexicons of faculty
Paper ID #34338Where’s My Whiteboard? The Challenge of Moving Active-learningMathematics Classes OnlineProf. Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. She earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Rice Uni- versity in 1998. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate study, earning an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Nelson’s research focus is in statistical signal processing, specifically detection and
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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
society through investigating community-based leMr. William Cohen, Ohio State University William Cohen is a Lecturer for the Fundamentals of Engineering program at The Ohio State University: a 2 semester course sequence for first-year engineering students focusing on programming in MATLAB, computer aided drawing in SolidWorks, and a semester long design-build-test project. William has also received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Ohio State.Dr. James Edward Toney, Ohio State University James Toney earned the Ph.D. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998 and the B.S. in electri- cal engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984. He is a Senior Lecturer in the
participants are faculty who are interested in EMLand they are recruited from science and math departments thatteach our engineering students. They are selected through anapplication process. In our first two years, we had 6-7 participantseach year with about half from the APS department and the otherhalf from Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Computer Science.As an extra incentive for active participation, all faculty Figure 1: A typical collaborativeparticipants receive a $5000 stipend funded through a grant that activity during an FLC meeting.supports this effort.Monthly MeetingsWe designed the monthly meetings to use the same pedagogical techniques that we want facultyto implement in their courses, including active learning and
Paper ID #32358Learning from the Voices of Faculty: An Analysis of the Impact ofShelter-in-Place on Faculty at San Jose State University in Spring 2020Dr. Maria Chierichetti, San Jose State University Maria Chierichetti joined the department of Aerospace Engineering as a full-time assistant professor in Fall 2019. Her interests lie in the field of aerospace structural design and vibrations, with particular emphasis on developing methodologies for combining finite element analysis and machine/deep learning for structural health monitoring and unmanned Structural inspections in the context of urban air mobility. Maria is
Paper ID #28612Managing Dual Academic CareersDr. Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Yuting W. Chen received the B.S. degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009 and 2011, all in Electrical Engi- neering. She is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining ECE Illinois, she worked at IBM Systems Group in Poughkeepsie, NY in z Systems Firmware Development. Her current interests
professor at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in the College of Education, and is Director of the Center for Education Research and Policy Studies (CERPS). Dr. Villa received her doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction from New Mexico State University; she received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Master of Arts in Education from UTEP. She has led and co-led numerous grants from corporate foundations and state and federal agencies, and has numerous publications in refereed journals and edited books. Her research interests include communities of practice, gender, transformative learning, and identity.Dr. Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting Dr. Sarah Hug is
development on the faculty, a mixed-methodapproach was adopted. This included interviewing faculty who participated in the PIVOT+ seriesusing well-formulated questions and a validated survey instrument that assesses the faculty’sattitudes, perceptions, and self-efficacy towards online teaching and learning. This web-basedsurvey, hosted through Qualtrics, was borrowed, with permission, from a previous study thatexamined online teaching self-efficacy of faculty [10]. Self-efficacy items included instructionalstrategies, use of computers, classroom management and student engagement. Faculty attitudesand perceptions were also examined measuring satisfaction, perceptions of student learning,future interest in teaching online and their computer skills
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follows “Versus the STEM book that we read– the Teaching and Learning STEM – was very cognizant of the scale-up part of that, and so hada lot of nice prescriptions for “if your class is yea big, you can do this, but if it’s yea big, youmight try this instead, which is a sort of adaptation of that.” So, the frequent sort of argumentsabout scaling and also then, how most of our assignments involve computer code, like, howyou’d adopt feedback that was mentioned, or grading schemes that were discussed to computercode.”ConclusionParticipants generally felt some combination of affirmation about what they were already doingto support students learning and learning new teaching strategies. The recruitment of faculty whowere interested in interactive
Paper ID #30934Bridging the gap: preparing future engineering faculty forpost-secondary teaching excellenceDr. Tareq Daher, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Tareq Daher earned his Bachelors in Computer Science from Mutah University in Jordan. He pursued a Master’s of Instructional Technology at the University of Nebraska –Lincoln while working as the coordinator for the Student Technology Program on the UNL campus. Currently, Dr. Daher works as the director for the Engineering and Computing Education Core (ECEC) at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Dr. Daher collaborates with engineering faculty to document and
power shape reform efforts.Dr. Yan Chen, University of New Mexico Yan Chen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests focus on computer supported collaborative learning, learning sciences, online learning and teaching, and educational equity for multicultural/multiethnic edu- cation.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is
applications. She developed an online certification program to help faculty transition from classroom to online teaching. During the 2020 pandemic she designed and coordinated a University-wide training effort to help faculty teach remotely. She has worked with subject matter experts across disciplines to develop academic courses, certification programs, and open-source learning materials. Her background is in instructional design, LMS administration, multimedia produc- tion, and student engagement systems. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Review of Teaching Modalities Chosen by Faculty During the
, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 1189–1190, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/medu.14250[11] S. Lipscomb and D. Tate, “Fast track to teaching online: Bringing faculty up to speed amid covid-19,” in Ed- Media+ Innovate Learning. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2020, pp. 73–76.[12] O. Trevisan, G. Knezek, M. De Rossi, V. Grion, and R. Christensen, “Technology and distance teaching during the covid-19 pandemic: Deriving constructs from an international higher education survey,” in SITE Interactive Conference. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2020, pp. 222–228.
, University of Delaware Dr. Joshua Enszer is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and mathematical modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic portfolios as a means for assessment and professional development, implementa- tion of computational tools across the chemical engineering curriculum, and game-based learning.Dr. Julia A Maresca, University of Delaware Microbiologist in Civil and Environmental
Paper ID #28894From Q&A to Norm & Adapt: The Roles of Peers in Changing Faculty Be-liefsand PracticeAmber Gallup, University of New MexicoDr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments
analysis. While this framework was not originally intended to extend to education, theexpansion of the internet and other computer technologies over the years has made the modelapplicable to a multitude of disciplines [5].Methods 2Autoethnography is a means to reflect on an experience that is situated in one’s self and thecontext of culture [6], [7]. Reflection begins with the examination of the self, during or after anexperience, that leads to confrontation, understanding, and resolution in one’s actions,particularly in the context of teaching and learning [6] As the object of study is the researchers’experiences, there is not an attempt for