Knowledge Transfer of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices in Faculty Communities of PracticeAbstractCommunities of practice (CoP) have evolved from interactions between novices and experts tobeing applied as managerial tools for improving an organization’s outcomes. Culturaldifferences, assumptions, and preferences affect the way members access and share knowledgewithin CoP. Communities of practice take several forms including informal groups developed bypractitioners to provide a forum for discussion; supported groups sponsored by managementaiming to build knowledge and skills for a given competency area; and structured groupsdeveloped and managed by an organization aiming to advance the organizations
&M University. He is also the Assistant Lab Director at the Sketch Recognition Lab.Dr. Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University Dr. Thomas is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineer- ing at Texas A&M University. She is a member of the Engineering Education Faculty in the Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation at Texas A&M. She enjoys project-based learning and incorporat- ing active learning techniques in all her courses. She received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2010, focusing on developing robotic motion planning algorithms and applying them to computational biology problems including protein folding. She continued this work as
through continual partnering after thefellowship. A key factor contributing to the success of NAFP is the continuedcommitment of the Fellows to serve and develop the capacity of MIs after thefellowship ends.This paper describes the NASA Administrator’s Fellowship Program as avaluable opportunity for faculty at minority institutions to gain valuable researchexperience at a NASA center and for NASA employees to enhance theirprofessional experience through engaging minority institutions and the studentsthey serve. Accomplishments over the first ten years illustrate the success of theprogram. The paper discusses how to prepare for the experience by providing alist of best practices. Practical issues include how to identify a host institution anda
] c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Understanding the Participation, Perceptions, and Impacts of Engineering Faculty Learning Communities: A Mixed Method ApproachAbstractAs important community assets for sustainable development of engineering education, facultyLearning Communities (FLCs) play an important role in facilitating faculty development andcareer transitions. Viewing FLCs as community-based programs with great diversity, the currentresearch argues that engaging with new/junior engineering faculty as a learning community hasimportant impacts to engineering education for students, institutions, and the communities thatwe work with and live in (Cox 2004). Specifically, guided by
large role to play. This may ring even more true for low-income, first generation studentswhose parents cannot support in the same ways, financially or through sharing similarexperiences.It appears more likely than not that each engineering student will undergo one or more mental orphysical health challenges in their time in college. Whether they enter college with diagnosedissues, develop severe or mild mental health issues (e.g. depression, stress), or encounterphysical impairments (e.g. injury) or illness (e.g. mono, severe flu), faculty should treat studentswith care and compassion. Faculty responses can either help students or exacerbate challenges.Remembering that human health and wellbeing is part of our ethical obligation as
close coordinationbetween the engineering faculty and academic/student support professionals at a campus are veryimportant to increase the level of engagement and retention in the college environment. Also,this coordination would be very helpful for a new faculty whose responsibilities require a strongcommitment with significant time management between participating in teaching, developing aresearch program, and engaging in service missions. This study highlights the experiences of anew faculty member participating in a collaborative retention program within the university andhow the systematic approach implemented helped a new faculty member integrate service andteaching development needs for efficient use of time. The program, called
from UF, coupled with achange in leadership at both student and faculty advisor level of SWE-UF, the program was notcontinued. However, the interest that it developed on campus contributed to the creation of aone-credit graduate course, offered for the last two years as part of the newly started FloridaInstitute for Development of Engineering Faculty11.Diversity Statement Exercise within the ETPPWhile the pressure to meet future demands for an engineering workforce representative of thesociety at large is increasing, present and future engineering faculty have very few opportunitiesto reflect or discuss about diversity before taking decisions (about admission policies, teachingmanner, hiring or promotion) which would affect the under
from UF, coupled with achange in leadership at both student and faculty advisor level of SWE-UF, the program was notcontinued. However, the interest that it developed on campus contributed to the creation of aone-credit graduate course, offered for the last two years as part of the newly started FloridaInstitute for Development of Engineering Faculty11.Diversity Statement Exercise within the ETPPWhile the pressure to meet future demands for an engineering workforce representative of thesociety at large is increasing, present and future engineering faculty have very few opportunitiesto reflect or discuss about diversity before taking decisions (about admission policies, teachingmanner, hiring or promotion) which would affect the under
educational research studies, student applications of the design process, curriculum development, and fulfilling the needs of an integrated, multi-disciplinary first-year engineering educational environment through the use of active and collabo- rative learning, problem-based and project-based learning, classroom interaction, and multiple represen- tations of concepts.Ms. Lisa K Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Page 26.597.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Enacting Video-Annotated Peer Review (VAPR) of Faculty in a First-Year
Paper ID #41219Perceptions of New DEI Laws and the Recent Affirmative Action Decisionamong Engineering Faculty and StaffDr. Julie M. Smith, CSEdResearch.org Dr. Julie M. Smith is a senior education researcher at CSEdResearch.org. She holds degrees in Curriculum & Instruction and Software Development. She also completed a doctoral program in Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. Her research focus is computer science education, particularly the intersection of learning analytics, learning theory, and equity and excellence. She was a research assistant at MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab, working on a
framework is presented.Results and AnalysisA. Emergent ThemesOur analysis results in several emergent themes, which include (1) faculty beliefs about Project-Based Learning as a teaching practice, (2) instructor’s level of abstraction when talking aboutstudents, (3) instructor’s affect towards students, (4) value instructors place on one-on-oneinteractions with students, (5) instructors’ perceptions of their role in development of studentmotivation and interest toward their courses, (6) instructors’ perceived ability to impact students,(7) instructors’ overall teaching goals, and (8) instructors’ motivation towards teaching. Each ofthese themes was investigated and two groups with opposing viewpoints were discovered withineach theme. Later, a
call for papers states, our paper is "centered around accumulated guidancethrough educational experiences that can help guide other students with similar experiences”—inthis case, our goal is provide guidance for Student Division members who are considering tenuretrack faculty positions.The engineering education community has a tradition of sharing experiential wisdom, forexample at forums like the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, where papers, and paneldiscussions dedicated to the process are common in the Faculty Development, Graduate Studies,and Student Divisions. Such papers have addressed topics like finding teaching opportunitiesduring doctoral studies1, assembling a dissertation committee2, general advice for graduatestudents3,4
MEP Director have focused on developing and implementing high impact practices known to promote student success and persistence. In addition to her work as a practitioner in supply chain and engineering student success, Gerica is a qualitative researcher who centers the lived experiences of various engineering education stakeholders; including faculty, staff, students, and employers; in order to gain greater clarity on the current status of the engineering educational landscape. Gerica believes that each person’s experiences and perspectives are important to understanding the current state of engineering education and thus critical for developing strategies toward a path forward
Attributes Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Univer- sity of Waterloo. He is responsible for leading the continuous program assessment improvement process for the chemical and nanotechnology engineering programs. He is also heavily involved in the develop- ment of Waterloo Engineering’s IDEAS Clinic initiative. Dr. Grove obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo investigating the microbial community ecology in biofilters used for air pollution control. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 WIP: Student and Faculty Experience with Blended Learning in a First-Year
critical feminist pedagogy.We also drew on lively conversations about what it might look like to bring insights from thesefields together and put them into practice. While much data remain to be collected and analyzed,we write here to describe the project and to explore preliminary insights it has generated.In the 2022-2023 year, we recruited a total of fifteen Fellows: six members of faculty and ninestudents at Colorado School of Mines (or “Mines”) to participate in a yearlong sequence ofpedagogy-focused meetings and workshops. These efforts followed a similar series of activitiesat James Madison University the year prior. Supported by funding from the National ScienceFoundation, our multi-institution research team developed these workshops with
through all codes to prevent misunderstandings and/or identify uncommon coding cases.Finally, any disagreements that occurred were resolved. This process continued until 100% inter-coder reliability was reached. ResultsLevel of CS Student Preparation for Employment by Formal Education All faculty members interviewed believed that formal education provides students withthe fundamental skills necessary for software development. As one participant said: University gives to students the familiarity with the subject. However, real experience comes to you with the job. But after going in work life, the subjects or classes you study in school help you to understand the work
presentation preparation and final report writing. This means that only 7 or 8 weeks are available forstudent research. Each objective can only require, on average, 1 to 2 weeks to complete.Try to structure the objectives so that there is a coupled deliverable that the student perceives as needing to produceto show objective completion. The new faculty can use these products as a means to build together a viablemanuscript (see the section on Developing a Viable Manuscript). The intermediate objectives can be tailored toinclude a deliverable by requiring a demonstration on a representative sample as evidence that the objective iscomplete. Production of a sample with given properties can be measured by having the student produce a picture ofthe sample
prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. Page 24.366.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Design for Impact: Reimagining Inquiry-‐Based Activities for Effectiveness and Ease of Faculty Adoption Standard lecture-‐based educational approaches are of limited effectiveness in repair of
faculty mentors, and develop more effective techniques for faculty mentoring.References1. M. Klawe, “Why We Need More STEM Students to Study Abroad,” Forbes, Mar 6, 2019. [Online]. https://www.forbes.com. [Accessed February 21, 2023].2. R. Jones and B. Oberst, International Experience for Engineering Students through Distance Learning Techniques. ASEE 2000 Annual Conference Session 2360. 2000.3. ABET Criterion. https://www.abet.org/accrediation. [Accessed February 15, 2023].4. S. Gerras et al. Strategic Leadership Primer. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks PA, 2010.5. J. Schreiner and G. Dixon. The Engineering Management Handbook 3rd Edition, Chapter 1 The Engineering Management Profession. The American Society for Engineering Management
Systems [8], similarly identified perceived importance, enjoyment,benefit, relative cost, goals, resources, and skill development as areas or influencers on whetherfaculty would engage in change efforts.The professorship at the center of this paper was designed to encapsulate each of theseprinciples. Faculty develop their own proposals for incorporating EM into a course, lab, orprogram, which they submit individually or collaboratively. Those awarded the professorshipreceive funding and support to implement their idea. They are also recognized at the college-level as leaders of engineering entrepreneurship education, and both the faculty and theirinitiative are predominantly featured in internally and externally facing print and webpublications
AC 2008-252: NEW FACULTY MEETINGS: SURVIVING THE FIRST YEAR OFTHE TENURE TRACK TOGETHERRyan Beasley, Texas A&M University Ryan Beasley is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2006 as a result of his work on the control of surgical robots. His research activities involve designing surgical robots, developing virtual reality tools to enhance image-guided surgery, investigating haptic interfaces, and devising control algorithms for all the above.Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University Dr. Ana Goulart is an assistant professor in the Telecommunications Engineering Technology program in
are then charged with integrating what they learn in the workshopinto their classrooms. The counselors are charged with incorporating engineering information intheir career counseling and developing and implementing an outreach program to encouragestudents to consider engineering. This has the effect of introducing students as young as 12years old to engineering as a career option.The summer workshops include eight hands-on labs on different disciplines of engineering.Arizona State University College of Engineering and Applied Science faculty members presentthe labs. These eight faculty members have committed time and effort into developing andpresenting labs that bring engineering to a pre-college level, and that model gender
, and advancing engineering education.Individual faculty members or teams applied for up to $5000 to design, develop, and/ordeliver courses and materials. A faculty committee granted the awards based on theproposals’ ♦ educational soundness, ♦ meeting essential criteria in CSM’s revised curriculum, ♦ feasibility for completion within a summer session.As seed money for change, the program was a good institutional investment because thegrants affected the faculty recipients, their colleagues and departments, and students at alllevels. Within Seymour’s change framework, this program encouraged buy-in for thecurricular reform from top-down and bottom-up. [1] Every academic program on campusreceived funding, sparking broad interest in
Session 3555 Preparing Future Engineering Faculty: Initial Outcomes of an Innovative Teaching Portfolio Program Angela Linse, Jennifer Turns, Jessica M. H. Yellin, Tammy VanDeGrift University of WashingtonAbstractEngineering graduate students have few opportunities to explore and develop scholarlyapproaches to teaching compared to graduates in other fields. As part of an NSF funded teachingand learning center, we have developed the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETPP).Our initial step has been to design the program and conduct a formal study of how twoindependent
glass research centers in different countries. Over the past three decades he has focused on introducing new functionality and novel processing of glass, and making glass education available worldwide freely. For the last several years, he has been advocating for use-inspired research, and led the development of a new STEM doctoral workforce training model: Pasteur Partners PhD (P3) based on Industry-University partnerships. He is an author/editor of 12 patents, 10 books and over 400 research publications on glass science, technology and education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Faculty Perspectives on Their Role in the Training of STEM Doctoral
, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on an NSF faculty development program based on evidence-based teaching practices. The overall goal is to develop dis- ciplinary communities of practice across the college of engineering. The approach is being promoted through semester-long faculty workshops and then through a semester of supported implementation of faculty classroom innovations. Changes in faculty beliefs and classroom practice should positively im- pact
" Workshop Teach Workshop Designers and New Faculty?AbstractThis paper tracks and discusses the changes in written reflections of attendees at a week-longfaculty development workshop on innovation in engineering education. Reflections largely dealtwith the various motivations of workshop attendees and their perceptions of the workshopexperience. While some concerns (e.g. time scarcity) remained constant throughout, thereflections also began displaying a greater sense of self-authorship by the mid-point of theworkshop. The changing motivations and perceptions of faculty workshop attendees have directimplications for how new faculty can be prepared for professional development activities; inparticular, experiences as workshop "students" can help
Ruth Streveler in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include creating systems for sustainable improvement in engineering education, promoting intrinsic motivation in the classroom, conceptual change and development in engi- neering students, and change in faculty beliefs about teaching and learning. He serves as the webmaster for the ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division.Irene B. Mena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Irene B. Mena has a B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering education. Her research interests include first-year engineering and graduate student professional development.Prof. Matthew West, University of Illinois
Leadership Development and Team Building Efforts, Dual Career AssistanceProgram, and Faculty Evaluation Policy/Practice. This paper describes a subset of theAdvanceRIT career navigation activities, outcomes and evaluation, and progress towardssustaining these efforts beyond the length of the current AdvanceRIT funded project.IntroductionA group of women faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have been on a nearly10 year journey to increase the representation, retention and career advancement of womenfaculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and Social & BehavioralSciences (SBS) fields at their university. The road led them through an NSF ADVANCEInstitutional Transformation Catalyst project titled Establishing
Session 1122 Engineering Faculty Teaching Styles and Attitudes toward Student-Centered and Technology-Enabled Teaching Strategies Malgorzata S. Zywno Ryerson UniversityAbstractThis paper presents results of a survey assessing learning preferences and teaching strategies ofengineering faculty. Of particular interest were questions pertaining to technologyimplementations and to professional development. The survey pointed to lack of interest ineducational activities and low use of innovative instructional methods and instructionaltechnologies