Building a Network of Mentors: A Guide for Engineering Educators

26 Feb 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Mary Deane Sorcinelli

Mentoring has long been viewed as a powerful means of enhancing the professional success and personal well-being of faculty members, especially new and early career faculty. In response, a number of institutions have developed mentoring programs, often shaped by the traditional one-on-one mentoring …

Planning, Implementing, and Reporting Quantitative Research in Education: A User's Guide

26 Feb 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): R. Brent Stansfield

This document is designed to help education researchers plan similar research programs. Sections are organized by the chronology for developing a series of studies. First, we will discuss how exploratory research can suggest theories and causal models, but cannot test them. Second, we will describe …

A Guidebook On Conceptual Frameworks For Research In Engineering Education

26 Feb 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Marilla D. Svinicki

Why should you care about the conceptual frameworks that underlie research on teaching and learning? I propose that you wouldn’t consider redesigning a bridge without understanding the underlying principles that support and affect it in the first place. Wouldn’t you look to current models of …

Qualitative Research Basics: A Guide for Engineering Educators

26 Feb 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Nancy Chism

It is our intention in this manual to provide an overview of the use of qualitative research methods in the engineering education context. Our assumption is that users of this guide will be fairly new to qualitative approaches—and perhaps new to educational research in general. We have tried, …

Workshop Report: Building Capability and Communities in Engineering Education Research

26 Feb 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rocío Chavela Guerra, Monica F. Cox

This report summarizes the results from a four-hour workshop aimed to (1) Introduce engineering faculty interested in developing or extending their capability to engage in educational scholarship how to approach and to move their work in the direction of educational research. (2) Share with …

Universalized Narratives: Patterns in How Faculty Members Define “Engineering”

15 Apr 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Alice L. Pawley

BACKGROUND U.S. engineering educators are discussing how we define engineering to our- selves and to others, such as in the recently released U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) report, Changing the Conversation. In these conversations, leaders have proposed the skills, knowledge, processes, …

Feminisms in Engineering Education: Transformative Possibilities

15 Apr 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Alice L. Pawley

The goal of this paper is to examine the possibilities for explicitly femi- nist work in engineering and engineering education. What does it mean in engineering contexts to take a feminist perspective, and how might this influence the profession and society? We seek to establish an under- standing …

ASEE 2010 Engineering Education PhD Programs - Networking Session

30 Jul 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Karl A. Smith

Agenda Welcome and Overview (~10 min) Introductions and Brief Statement from Representative of Established EER PhD Programs (~20 min) Ten Briefings, ~2 min each When the PhD program was started, Where it is located, Number of PhD students and graduates, Participant Networking Activity (~30 …

University of Georgia Graduate Research Opportunity

09 Jul 2010 | Publications

CLUSTER (Collaborative Loung for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research) Graduate Research Program at University of Georgia

From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Emerging Landscape of Engineering Education Research

29 Oct 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Ruth A Streveler, Karl A. Smith

Guest Editorial for Journal of Engineering Education October 2010 RUTH A. STREVELER Purdue University KARL A. SMITH Purdue University and University of Minnesota We thank Jack Lohmann and Norman Fortenberry for reviewing iterations of this editorial. Their comments strengthened …