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East Tennessee Noyce STEM Teacher Preparation Program

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41945

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https://peer.asee.org/41945

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288

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Mohammad Uddin East Tennessee State University

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Dr. Mohammad Moin Uddin is a Professor in the Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology, and Surveying at East Tennessee State University. He holds a joint appointment as a Professor of Engineering and Engineering Technology Program and as a Graduate Faculty member of the Graduate School. He also serves as the Director for the TTU-ETSU Joint Engineering Program. Dr. Uddin is an exemplary engineering technology educator. He has made significant contributions to engineering technology education and the whole profession through excellence in teaching, research and service to the engineering technology community. Dr. Uddin is a proponent of project-based learning and developed innovative teaching strategies to engage his students in solving a real-world problem and prepare them with skills and knowledge that industry requires.
Dr. Uddin is active in research and scholarship. He has been awarded grants from National Science Foundation, Tennessee Department of Transportation, Tennessee Board of Regents, DENSO and ASEE (ETD mini-grants) and several other organizations for a total of more than $2 million. His current research interest focuses on risk based estimation in construction decision making, sustainable design and construction, applications of machine learning and AI in construction, and engineering education. Dr. Uddin is also dedicated to serve his profession and the community. He is a member of ASEE, ASCE, TRB and CRC, and serves as the secretary for the ASCE Holston branch. Dr. Uddin is active with ASEE engineering technology division and served as ETD program chair for CIEC in 2017 and 2018. Dr. Uddin also served as the Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Engineering Technology from 2019 to 2021. Dr. Uddin received outstanding researcher award, outstanding service award and sustainability leadership award from his college.

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BEVERLY SMITH East Tennessee State University

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Abstract

There is a critical shortage of STEM teachers in high-need fields, especially in Computer Science, Engineering/Engineering Technology, in the southern Appalachian region. This paper describes an NSF funded Noyce Track 1 Teacher Recruiting program at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) awarded in 2019. The program is administered in partnership with local high-need school districts in the First Congressional District of Tennessee as well as four nearby nonprofit educational organizations, namely the Gray Fossil Site/ETSU Natural History Museum, the Hands- On Museum, the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, and the Bays Mountain Planetarium, and three summer science camps: the ETSU Governor's School, the ETSU Renaissance Camp, and the ETSU Computing/Technology Camp. The program has three parts: 1) a summer teaching internship program for undergraduate STEM majors designed to recruit students into the teaching profession, 2) scholarships and mentoring for a Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program, and 3) a mentoring program and continuing professional development for newly minted teachers to retain them as teachers. It is focused on Physics, Chemistry, Engineering/Engineering Technology, Computer Science, and Mathematics. The heart of the program is a 4+1 bachelors/post-baccalaureate program in which students obtaining undergraduate degrees in high-need STEM fields are recruited for the MAT program. Thus far two cohorts of 8 students completed the internship programs and all showed interest to become STEM teacher in their respective fields. Of them three students completed the MAT program and currently teaching in high-need schools. We anticipate that ETSU Noyce program will create a group of teachers who will be able to inspire future generations of STEM professionals in Northeast Tennessee region.

Uddin, M., & SMITH, B. (2022, August), East Tennessee Noyce STEM Teacher Preparation Program Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41945

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