Dear ERM members,
Just a short note today as I am still enjoying the last few days of our holiday break. I hope that all of you had a wonderful holiday! I definitely enjoyed the peace and quiet…and lack of Zoom meetings.
Happy New Year to all you! I look forward to 2021 with optimism, hope, and a lot of patience.
Sarah
ERM Announcements for 1/1/2021
General Announcements
NSF ANNOUNCEMENT: Note from Ed Berger, Program Director, Engineering Education
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Handbook of STEM Faculty Development Call for Abstracts
CALL FOR PAPERS: Clive L. Dym Mudd Design Workshop XII Designing Through Making
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Edited Volume on Engineering Education
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference – X-DBER
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: National Dialogue on Transforming STEM Teaching Evaluation in Higher Education
REU POSITIONS: REU in Engineering Education at Utah State University
Position Announcements
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Assistant Dean for Curricular Innovation and Program Assessment
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Faculty Position in Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at San Jose State University
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Director of the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education at Florida International University
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Multiple open-rank positions available in engineering and computing education at Florida International University
General Announcements
NSF ANNOUNCEMENT: Note from Ed Berger
Hello all: today (12/31/20) is my last day at NSF, and I’m writing to send one more message of gratitude to you all for the work you do, and for your support of the engineering education research programs as NSF. Our community is filled with great researchers, great educators, great mentors; this is all true. But being in this role for the past 18 months has reminded me that our community is filled, at its core, with fantastic people. People who care about each other, their students, their colleagues, and about the future of our discipline and the broader field of engineering. One of the great joys of serving in this position has been to routinely engage with all of you—whether as proposers, PIs, panelists, reviewers, at conferences or via email. You continue to show that our community is strong, growing, and is thinking about the world’s challenges in important, sophisticated, compassionate ways that transcend the usual disciplinary boundaries.
I’m returning to my role at Purdue, where you can reach me at bergere@purdue.edu. I look forward to a day, hopefully soon, when our paths will cross in person. I truly encourage all of you to consider a future role at NSF. My experience has been very positive; the work environment and the people are fantastic. NSF has openings for IPAs (“rotators”) fairly frequently, and if this kind of role aligns with your career plans, you should definitely consider it.
An announcement about the new Engineering Education program officer in EEC is imminent. Right now, all I can say is that you will have a wise and passionate advocate in this role.
Best wishes for the new year,
Ed
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Edward Berger
Program Director, Engineering Education
Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
National Science Foundation
703-292-7708
eberger@nsf.gov
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Handbook of STEM Faculty Development Call for Abstracts
The editors of the Handbook of STEM Faculty Development are looking for high quality submissions that focus on all stages of faculty development for those in STEM focused higher education fields.
Faculty in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines face intensifying pressures in the 21st century, including multiple roles as educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. In addition to continuously increasing teaching and service expectations, faculty are engaged in substantive research that requires securing external funding, mentoring other faculty and graduate students, and disseminating this work in a broad range of scholarly outlets. Societal needs of their expertise include discovery, innovation, and workforce development. It is critical to provide STEM faculty with the professional development to support their complex roles and to base this development on evidence derived from research. This edited handbook provides STEM faculty, STEM researchers, educational researchers, professional development providers, higher education administrators and other stakeholders with an opportunity to share studies and/or experiences that explore STEM faculty development (FD) in higher education settings. More specifically, we encourage work that examines professional development planning, techniques/models, experiences, and outcomes focused on supporting the teaching, research, service, and/or leadership responsibilities of STEM faculty. We particularly encourage submissions examining these roles and responsibilities within higher education from a holistic point of view, crosscutting teaching, research, service, and leadership.
We invite you to submit an abstract (due February 28th, 2021) of no more than 500 words. Please see the link below for more details. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to any of us.
https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Handbook-of-STEM-Faculty-Development
Sandra Linder (sandram@clemson.edu)
Cindy Lee (LC@clemson.edu
Karen High (khigh@clemson.edu)
CALL FOR PAPERS: Clive L. Dym Mudd Design Workshop XII Designing Through Making
Two-page abstracts to be submitted by 10 January 2021. The workshop is currently scheduled to take place in Claremont, California from May 27 to 29, 2021, but is increasingly likely to take place as an online workshop. Call for Papers and more info: https://mudddesignworkshop.com/callforpapers-mdwix/
Vision: Engineers, designers, and educators will gather to discuss and share approaches for sketching, drafting, prototyping, and producing artefacts in design related courses and activities, including industrial and entrepreneurial efforts. Prototypes are used for a variety of purposes throughout design processes, including communication, testing, exploring ideas, etc. Appropriate levels of prototyping at all phases of a design process are critical to a good design process and outcomes. Training on use of and selection of the most appropriate means of prototyping and descriptive communication for sharing, learning, exploring, and production are needed for educationally and industrially driven projects. Especially noteworthy is that the increase in distance learning and remote work may reduce access to equipment and staff as well as the informal interactions that improve the product and learning or working environment. We will explore the role of artifact exploration, description, development, and realization throughout the different phases of the design processes and explore how these can be leveraged to improve outcome and process.
Mission: We will identify the best practices, opportunities, and challenges associated with designing and creating artifacts at different stages of a design process with a focus on how educational, cultural, and institutional issues contribute to successful outcomes. Possible topics are listed in the call for papers at https://mudddesignworkshop.com/callforpapers-mdwix/.
Experience: Sessions are initiated by brief position statements from panelists followed by an open discussion. A wrap-up session will collect the most important outputs for improving engineering design education for dissemination to the community. Participants will receive a preliminary proceedings containing near-final manuscripts of presented papers. Those drafts will subsequently be refined and reviewed for publication in a Special Issue of the International Journal of Engineering Education to comprise the archival proceedings of the Clive L. Dym Mudd Design Workshop XII.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically by January 10, 2021 to this link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MDW2021 (which requires the creation of a free account).
Please note that new users will need to create an account on CMT.
Coronavirus Statement: While the organizing committee is hopeful that the workshop will take place at the scheduled time and location, we remain aware of the continuing global health crisis. In anticipation of restrictions on an in-person workshop, the committee is considering the other options available and will keep participants informed of decisions regarding format, timing, and location.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Edited Volume on Engineering Education
As part of a NSF project, I am starting work on a new handbook of engineering education with a broader scope and more diverse contributions in topics and authors. If you are interested in participating, please sign up here (you will also have the opportunity to provide input on what the volume should cover). The book will be published as an open educational resource and available publicly for free.
Survey link: http://bit.do/engehandbook
If you’ve any questions, please contact Aditya Johri at johri@gmu.edu
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference – X-DBER
We are pleased to invite you to X-DBER 2021, a conference exploring themes in discipline-based education research across STEM disciplines. This virtual conference will take place March 1-3, hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We look forward to fostering cross-disciplinary conversations focused on several core themes: educational tools and interventions; learning and cognitive research; diversity, inclusion, and equity; student experiences and affect; and integrating disciplinary practices. The conference will be free for all participants.
Conference Webpage: https://scimath.unl.edu/x-dber/2021/
Abstracts due: January 17, 2021
General Registration: Closes February 21, 2021
Contact: Grace Panther, grace.panther@unl.edu
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: National Dialogue on Transforming STEM Teaching Evaluation in Higher Education
There are growing national discussions about the critical importance of providing high-quality, evidenced-based, inclusive undergraduate STEM educational experiences across various modes and locations of delivery. How we evaluate teaching is one lever for heightening attention to the quality of teaching. Grappling with better methods to evaluate teaching is a driver to engage faculty in re-envisioning approaches to high quality teaching and learning. Recent rapid transitions in teaching and learning in higher education, along with concerns about equity in students’ experiences and demands on faculty, create an opportunity to rethink the process for evaluating faculty work, including teaching.
The National Dialogue is a three-part series of virtual events to be held in January 2021 to further the national conversation about transformation of teaching evaluation. It has these goals:
Contextualize the critical importance of effective and inclusive teaching
Understand an array of models and approaches to improve the evaluation of teaching;
Examine strategies for addressing challenges to reforming processes for evaluating teaching.
Opening Plenary: National Dialogue on Reforming STEM Teaching Evaluation in Higher Education: Thursday, January 14, 2021 from 12:00-1:30pm ET
Teaching Evaluation Poster Symposia and Small Group Events: January 14 – January 22, 2021
Closing Session: Cross-cutting Challenges and Opportunities to Improving Teaching Evaluation: Wednesday, January 27 from 1:00-4:00pm ET
Hosted by the Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in collaboration with the Association of American Universities, Transforming Higher Education-Multidimensional Evaluation of Teaching (TEval), the Bayview Alliance, Accelerating Systemic Change in STEM Higher Education, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, and the Network of STEM Education Centers. Funding support is from the National Science Foundation via the TEval Project. This dialogue builds upon the Recognition and Evaluation of Science Teaching in Higher Education workshop we organized in September 2019.
To register, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-dialogue-on-transforming-stem-teaching-evaluation-tickets-131187662831?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN-Undergrad_Grad_Covid_Response_COPY_).
REU POSITIONS: REU in Engineering Education at Utah State University
The Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University will hold a ten-week summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program https://engineering.usu.edu/eed/reu/annoucement, starting May 18, 2021, to provide undergraduate students (in either 4-year or 2-year schools) in a science, technology (including engineering technology), engineering, or mathematics (STEM) discipline with intensive experience in engineering education research, such as how learners’ experience, background, and perception play a role when they learn engineering knowledge and skills. The central theme of the REU program is “Problem Solving in Engineering Education.” This shared theme of problem solving is broad enough to relate to the diverse lines of inquiry and research projects in engineering education at USU. Due to the uncertain health situation resultant to the Covid-19 pandemic, this ten-week program will be conducted at the participant’s home or internet capable area, via internet and computer access, and facilitated by USU’s Canvas learning management system and other online communication media.
Each REU student will receive up to $8,450, including 1) a stipend of $6,000, 2) a housing and meal allowance of $1,700, and 3) up to $750 for a round-trip airfare ticket to use to travel and attend any conferences. Additionally, this last amount will also help to support your research experience.
The applicants must be at least 18 years old by the time the program starts on May 18, 2021, must be a citizen, national, or permanent resident of the United States, must be an undergraduate student who will not graduate before September 1, 2021 (in either 4-year or 2-year schools) with a good academic standing in a professional undergraduate program in science, technology (including engineering technology), engineering, or mathematics.
The deadline of application is March 8, 2021. Interested students must submit applications online via https://engineering.usu.edu/eed/reu/application. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Oenardi Lawanto at olawanto@usu.edu or Dr. Wade Goodridge at wade.goodridge@usu.edu.
Position Announcements
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Assistant Dean for Curricular Innovation and Program Assessment
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) seeks an accomplished, creative leader to serve in the inaugural position of Assistant Dean for Curricular Innovation and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering. The Assistant Dean will report to the Associate Dean for Education and Graduate Professional Programs and, as a member of the dean’s leadership team, will help maintain excellence and chart innovative directions in the college’s evolving portfolio of curricular options.
The Assistant Dean will identify opportunities for significant curricular innovations at the undergraduate and graduate levels through in-depth assessment of current programs and develop collaborative approaches to achieve those innovations. Partners in these collaborations will include Engineering Departments, the Center for Engineering Outreach and Inclusion, The Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, the Engineering Office for Digital Learning, Global Engineering Engagement, The Learning Factory, Engineering Office of Institutional Research, and Engineering Technology & Commonwealth Engineering as well as Colleges of Science and the Liberal Arts. The Assistant Dean will be familiar with University Faculty Senate policies, procedures, and decisions that impact College of Engineering curricula.
The Assistant Dean will coordinate and evaluate first-year seminars across the College and assist departments and partner colleges and campuses in delivering high quality first and second year education to College of Engineering students. The Assistant Dean will help identify needs and opportunities for cross departmental courses that support curricula shared by all College of Engineering students.
The Assistant Dean will coordinate accreditation processes for undergraduate programs in the College of Engineering and serve as the Institutional Representative during accreditation reviews. They will also coordinate annual assessments of graduate and certificate programs as part of Penn State’s regional accreditation.
For additional details please go to https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Academic/job/University-Park-Campus/ASSISTANT-DEAN-FOR-CURRICULAR-INNOVATION-AND-PROGRAM-ASSESSMENT_REQ_0000009139-1 or contact Thomas Litzinger, chair of the search committee, at tal2@psu.edu.
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Faculty Position in Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University
The Department of Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) within the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering invites applications for tenure-¬track faculty position(s) at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank. ExEEd was launched as a new Department in 2016 to cultivate a collaborative environment for engineering education research, implement educational innovations in the classroom, and lead the College’s undergraduate engineering educational mission in the first and sophomore years. ExEEd also oversees the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering BSc. in Engineering Entrepreneurship, a novel undergraduate degree program that blends engineering with business skills. Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to build or sustain a robust, externally-funded research program focused on engineering education. The candidate’s research plan should show evidence of publications within the engineering education community and provide insight into their plans for obtaining funding associated with their proposed research agenda. As part of ExEEd, they will also have the opportunity to work collaboratively to further develop the research-to-practice model of graduate engineering education. Their teaching role within the department will consist of engaging in high quality, evidence-¬based teaching and contributing to the development of innovative projects, pedagogies and curricula in an environment where excellence in teaching is strongly valued. Candidates who can support the university’s commitment to a growing sustainability (people, planet and prosperity) research agenda are preferred. This can include,but is not limited to: providing methodology expertise applicable to sustainability based projects (community based, university focused, or industry); building strong interdisciplinary collaborations, for example, with Education, Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship; and/or furthering our understanding of effective teaching as related to sustainability. The successful candidate must demonstrate commitment to working with students and faculty from different engineering disciplines and from diverse backgrounds including women, students of color, LGBTQ students, first¬‐generation to college students, students with disabilities, students with low socioeconomic status, and veterans.
Applicants must have earned a minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering, Engineering Education, STEM Education or an equivalent field. In addition, the successful candidate is expected to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to teach in a multidisciplinary, hands‐on, project and problem¬‐based learning environment.
For more details and application requirements please see: https://jobs.rowan.edu/cw/en-us/job/494833/tenure-track-assistantassociate-professor-experiential-engineering-education. For more information, please contact Dr. Cheryl Bodnar, Associate Professor and Search Chair at bodnar@rowan.edu
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at San Jose State University
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at San José State University (SJSU) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Applicants must have a strong academic background in mechanical engineering, as evidenced by a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in mechanical engineering or closely related field, and expertise in mechatronics. Applicants must have demonstrated experience in a field of mechatronics such as robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, human-machine interface, etc.
More details at: https://jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/497876/assistant-professor-mechanical-engineering
Contact: Vimal Viswanathan – vimal.viswanathan@sjsu.edu
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Director of the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education at Florida International University
Florida International University (FIU) invites applications and nominations for Director and head of the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED, https://succeed.fiu.edu/), which is an academic department dedicated to engineering and computing education. SUCCEED is part of FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing, collaborates closely with the university’s STEM Transformation Institute (STEM TI, https://stem.fiu.edu), and has created the first engineering and computing education program at a minority-serving institution. The School houses two-degree programs: a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Computing Education, and also houses the College’s Center for Diversity and Student Success in Engineering and Computing (CD-SSEC).
Florida International University (FIU) is the fourth largest public university in the United States, and is majority-minority R1 research university and Hispanic Serving Institution. FIU has a vibrant STEM education research institute, and there are also ample education research opportunities afforded in Dade and Broward counties which host the nation’s largest and 4th largest state colleges and two of the largest public school districts.
More information about this position can be found on the SUCCEED website: https://succeed.fiu.edu/about/faculty-staff-positions/index.html . To apply visit https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/?posting=522526 .
Please feel free to contact Mark Weiss (weiss@fiu.edu) if you have interest, and/or to spread the word to colleagues in other engineering education disciplines.
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Multiple open-rank positions available in engineering and computing education at Florida International University
Florida International University (FIU) invites applications and nominations for open-rank faculty in the newly formed school dedicated to engineering and computing education. Our new School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED, https://succeed.fiu.edu/), which is part of FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing and collaborates closely with the university’s STEM Transformation Institute, (STEM TI, https://stem.fiu.edu/) and the Center for Diversity and Student Success in Engineering and Computing (CD-SSEC, https://cec.fiu.edu/academics/student-resources/cd-ssec), is the first engineering and computing education program at a minority-serving institution. The School houses two degree programs: a Bachelor’s of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Computing Education (https://succeed.fiu.edu/academics/degree-programs).
Florida International University (FIU) is the fourth largest public university in the United States, and is a majority-minority R1 research university. FIU has a vibrant Discipline-Based Education Research community (https://stem.fiu.edu/about/team/) and there are also ample education research opportunities afforded in Dade and Broward counties which host the nation’s largest and 4th largest state colleges and two of the largest public school districts.
We are seeking faculty at all levels as we continue to grow our community. More information available at the SUCCEED website https://succeed.fiu.edu/about/faculty-staff-positions/index.html and at the official FIU job posting website https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/?posting=522491. Please feel free to contact STEM TI Director, Laird Kramer (lkramer@fiu.edu) or Interim SUCCEED Director, Mark Weiss (weiss@fiu.edu) if you have interest, and/or to spread the word to colleagues in other engineering and computing education disciplines.
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