Lahneman, B., & Gallagher, S., & Kirkland, C. M., & Plymesser, K., & Lauchnor, E., & Hohner, A., & Phillips, A., & Woolard, C. R., & Stein, O. R. (2024, June), Identifying Shared Meaning to Enhance a Collaborative Teaching Culture  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/47546

\bibitem{asee_peer_47546}
  Lahneman, B., \& Gallagher, S., \& Kirkland, C. M., \& Plymesser, K., \& Lauchnor, E., \& Hohner, A., \& Phillips, A., \& Woolard, C. R., \& Stein, O. R. (2024, June), \emph{Identifying Shared Meaning to Enhance a Collaborative Teaching Culture}
  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
  https://peer.asee.org/47546

Brooke Lahneman, Susan Gallagher, Catherine M. Kirkland, Kathryn Plymesser, Ellen Lauchnor, Amanda Hohner, Adrienne Phillips, Craig R. Woolard, and Otto R. Stein.  "Identifying Shared Meaning to Enhance a Collaborative Teaching Culture".  2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/47546 Internet.  30 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_47546}
  Brooke Lahneman, Susan Gallagher, Catherine M. Kirkland, Kathryn Plymesser, Ellen Lauchnor, Amanda Hohner, Adrienne Phillips, Craig R. Woolard, and Otto R. Stein.
  "Identifying Shared Meaning to Enhance a Collaborative Teaching Culture".
  \emph{2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/47546 Internet.  30 Jul, 2024

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AB  - In 2020, Montana State University initiated a five-year NSF-funded Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) project with the vision of transforming the traditional topic-focused course structure in environmental engineering into an integrated project-based curriculum (IPBC) that supports a climate of collaborative and continuous learning among faculty and students. The curriculum redesign process engaged faculty in an extensive consensus-building process to define desired student learning outcomes for the program. In the transformed curriculum, faculty collectively agreed to integrate systems thinking, sustainability, and professionalism competencies and to cultivate students’ identity as environmental engineers throughout the degree. 

To achieve these goals, there must be a level of shared meaning around the four constructs of interest—systems thinking, sustainability, professionalism, environmental engineering—to guide pedagogical decision making among faculty. A qualitative cultural assessment was conducted to investigate, analyze, and describe the shared meanings faculty hold around the four constructs. The goal of the assessment was to uncover areas of shared meaning with the strongest consensus within and across constructs. By eliciting and describing “definitions by consensus,” faculty will be able to generate consistency in teaching and assessment practices throughout the curriculum. The culture assessment process undertaken by the department and its outcomes will be of interest to other programs seeking to foster collaborative teaching and to enhance collective ownership of degree program learning outcomes.


AU  - Brooke Lahneman
AU  - Susan Gallagher
AU  - Catherine M. Kirkland
AU  - Kathryn Plymesser
AU  - Ellen Lauchnor
AU  - Amanda Hohner
AU  - Adrienne Phillips
AU  - Craig R. Woolard
AU  - Otto R. Stein
CY  - Portland, Oregon
DA  - 2024/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Identifying Shared Meaning to Enhance a Collaborative Teaching Culture
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