Dear ERM members,
June is finally here! One of my favorite months of the year! I am definitely a summer-time person, and am super happy that it’s finally almost consistently warm outside here in PA. I was going to say that I’m also happy for a less busy summer schedule, but that hasn’t seemed to happen just yet. Maybe in a few more weeks!
This is a fairly light ERM newsletter this month, but still packed with interesting opportunities. One thing I wanted to draw our attention to is the CDEI update. In case you didn’t know, CDEI stands for “Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Walt Lee from Virginia Tech is our CDEI delegate for ERM. He sends me updates each month so that I can share them with you. There are quite a few interesting items available from CDEI this month including available resources, workshops, and opportunities to give feedback. Check this out first in the list below!
I hope you are all doing great and are able to get some peaceful and relaxing time this month. I myself am looking forward to paddle boarding, painting more watercolors, and heading out on my first trip since pre-COVID. Later this month, I’m taking my son to visit Gatlinburg, TN, home of the Great Smoky Mountains! If you’ve been there and know of some “must-see” places in Gatlinburg, send them my way!
Sarah
ERM Announcements for 6/1/2021
General Announcements
ASEE ANNOUNCEMENTS: May Updates from CDEI
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Invitation to Participate in an NSF Workshop on Civility
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: NETI-2 advanced workshops open, NETI-3E seats available
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Reminder – Register for Virtual PEER Unconference June 21-22
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Building bridges into engineering education: prospective mentor-mentee social
CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPATION: Invitation to take Maker Schools in Higher Ed Survey
Position Announcements
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Teaching Faculty – Department of Engineering, Design, and Society at Colorado School of Mines
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: CETL Academic Success Coach at the University of Rochester
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Associate Director of Broader Impacts at Virginia Tech’s Center for Educational Networks
General Announcements
ASEE ANNOUNCEMENTS: May Updates from CDEI
CDEI supports and gives tribute to Asian American and Pacific Islanders in engineering during this Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month and always. We also denounce the many verbal and physical attacks that have been happening against AAPI people (among many others). White supremacy removes our humanity from all of us. We have to actively fight to restore that humanity and we also remember every day that none of us are free if even one of us is still in chains.
Check out the CDEI chair’s blog post with full updates: https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/2021/05/15/cdei-may-2021-update-from-the-chair/. In addition, there are some new opportunities that have been added to the list below.
We want to make sure our CDEI constituents are represented in this ASEE headquarters effort. Survey on Under-Served Communities: ASEE wishes to identify under-served communities and potential ways to address needs of those communities. Please take this survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KG3Y99L) to aid in this research, which will be shared with ASEE’s Commission on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, relevant committees, and the ASEE Board. The survey is open through June 4, 2021 and is anonymous. Email questions to Joe Roy (j.roy@asee.org).
Check out our new guest blog post from Katey Shirey about integrating socially just engineering into high school science (https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/2021/05/04/two-strategies-towards-socially-just-engineering-integration-in-high-school-science/)
Virtual Workshop: “Equipping educators with tools to promote inclusion for latently diverse students” on June 25, 2021 at 2pm ET. Find out more here: https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/2021/05/17/equipping-educators-with-tools-to-promote-inclusion-for-latently-diverse-students/
If you want to help make the Year of Impact on Racial Equity happen, please sign up to get involved: https://virginiatech.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Q54NJGEokuSlcq The ASEE Year of Impact on Racial Equity (https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/resources/yire/) starts at the end of the 2021 Annual Conference and will go through the 2022 Annual Conference.
We believe it is important for ASEE and ASEE members to acknowledge and take steps to address justice issues in the communities in which we gather for our annual conferences. We believe that ASEE and ASEE members should be in partnership with the communities in which we have our conferences. We believe that ASEE conference attendees could have important impacts in the Long Beach community through supporting some local non-profit organizations with their actions and/or with their money.
There are four social justice areas we feel have been particularly hard-hit this year with the COVID-19 pandemic. Housing/houselessness, food insecurity, immigration, and LGBTQ populations. We have compiled some recommended non-profits that are trying to address these issues. Please consider donating money or time to one or all of these non-profits. Imagine the impact if each of us donated even just $5 to one or two of these! We also encourage you to think creatively in your divisions and sections about how you might fundraise or partner with these organizations or others to advance justice. List of recommended non-profits:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kNyvH53_6HxA93S1C12smvsHEoCpeInrm1-cdpYrYUU/edit?usp=sharing
We encourage everyone to read this article about how Black engineers disproportionately face barriers in 18 states that was published by the Investigative Reporting Workshop out of American University in Washington, DC.https://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigation/engineerings-unequal-paths/
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Invitation to Participate in an NSF Workshop on Civility
We invite you to participate in the NSF-funded workshop: “Towards Civility: Evaluating and Inspiring Collection and Analysis of Data on Harassing Behaviors in Engineering and Engineering Technology”.
Do you want to understand how harassing behaviors are impacting your recruiting and retention efforts? Do you know your institution’s prevalence rates for harassing behaviors? Are you interested in learning what others are doing to measure, understand, and mitigate harassing behaviors? Are you working to create a higher level of civility in your college and/or department?
The goals of the workshop include: to determine what data already exists at Institutions of Higher Education (IHE’s) and could be published, to identify priorities for additional data, and to engage in a coordinated initiative to render both institution-level and national-level landscapes. This work will inform subsequent efforts (beyond the workshop) to develop and implement promising practices for the prevention of harassing behaviors.
We invite representatives from IHE’s to apply to the workshop, especially in collaboration pairs (for example, an associate dean and a researcher, an engineering faculty member and a DEI administrator, etc.), with at least one person in the pair representing engineering and/or engineering technology. Workshop participants will conduct studies at their own institution, motivated by their own priorities, as well as engage in a participatory action research project with other workshop participants and led by the Workshop Planning Committee (WPC, contact information in the signature of this email).
The workshop will occur virtually, with 6 sessions spread out over 8 months. Each session will be 2-3 hours in length. Session structures will include (a) invited keynotes to frame the work, (b) data analysis presentations as models and state-of-the-field, and (c) working sessions in which participants interact collaboratively as stakeholders to produce prioritized agenda plans for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. In between workshop sessions, participants will complete action assignments to build on sessions that have happened and to prepare for future sessions.
Applications are due by June 10, 2021. The total number of participants selected to attend this workshop will be limited to 30. To complete the Data Workshop Application, please click the link below,
https://ucengeducation.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Q33naCwOxncyxg
Your participation is both appreciated and vital in working toward civility in engineering and engineering technology.
Compensation: All selected participants will receive a stipend of $250 upon successful completion of all six sessions of the workshop. If you receive payments for participating in this workshop, you will be asked to complete an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form. The amount you receive may count as income and may affect your income taxes. Your social security number will be required to complete the IRS form.
Thank you in advance for considering participating.
Website: https://ceas.uc.edu/events/civility-workshop.html.
Contact: Teri Reed for additional information on this workshop, including other PIs and a related report [Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM, 2018)].
Teri K. Reed, Ph.D. she/her/hers
Assistant Vice President for Research Development, Office of Research
Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Cincinnati
Teri.Reed@uc.edu
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: NETI-2 advanced workshops open, NETI-3E seats available
NETI-3E Online, has a few seats remaining and is scheduled for June 2-3, 2021, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 pm, EST, each day using Zoom. The NETI-3 online workshop for instructors teaching engineering or engineering technology focuses on effective teaching in a virtual environment. Topics explored in the workshop include student motivation, active engagement, assessment and adopting an inclusive mindset in online environments. The National Effective Teaching Institute has been given since 1991, reaching nearly 2500 participants from over 350 different schools. NETI-3 will be highly interactive and will provide opportunities for the participants to plan applications of the workshop content to their own courses.
Virtual offerings of NETI-2 advanced workshops are also scheduled this summer. NETI-2A (Inquiry-Based Teaching) is July 8-9, 2021, 1:00 – 5:00 pm EDT each day. This workshop will develop participants’ ability to adopt inquiry-based learning strategies. These strategies (e.g. problem-based and project-based learning) provide an engaging way to teach courses that more closely mimics how science and engineering are done in practice. Research shows that these approaches enhance student motivation, improve understanding of important concepts and develop students’ problem-solving and life-long learning skills. NETI-2A participants do not need to have attended NETI-1 but should already be familiar with active learning. NETI-2B (Forming, Managing & Assessing Student Teams) is August 5-6, 2021 1:00-5:00 pm EDT each day. This workshop will develop participants’ ability to manage student teams – particularly in the context of team-based learning strategies. Teamwork can be taught, but students require guidance, practice, and feedback. They also need to be held accountable for their behavior. Research shows that there are best practices for how to form teams, manage teams, and assess teams to improve student outcomes while maintaining an inclusive and welcoming learning environment. NETI-2B participants do not need to have attended NETI-1 but should already be familiar with learning strategies that require students to interact in groups and teams.
The registration fee for each workshop is $400 per participant, and includes an electronic version of presentation materials and other resources. Each workshop is directed by Drs. Susan Lord, Matt Ohland, and Michael Prince. We invite you to register for any of the workshops and to pass this notice along to faculty who would benefit from this program. Questions should be directed to Emily Ohland, Workshop Administrator (neti.workshops@gmail.com). Register at https://www.neti-workshop.org/events/.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Reminder – Register for Virtual PEER Unconference June 21-22
The virtual PEER Collaborative Unconference is right around the corner on Monday June 21 and Tuesday June 22. If you are a tenure-track faculty, non-tenure track faculty, admin, or post-doc who is early in their engineering education career, consider signing up for this free, virtual conference.
The unconference runs Monday 6/21 from 12 – 5:30 pm EDT with a social hour at 7 pm EDT and Tuesday 6/22 from 12 – 5 pm EDT and will be held on Zoom. A more detailed schedule can be found at our website.
Please direct any questions to Kaela Martin (kaela.martin@erau.edu).
Our website is found at: https://www.peer-collaborative.org/
Registration is open and available at the following link: https://www.peer-collaborative.org/register-for-2021
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Building bridges into engineering education: prospective mentor-mentee social
Interested in starting engineering education research (EER)? Or are you already involved and want to support new researchers? There are grants and a community for that! Join our free virtual social networking event to connect existing and prospective mentors and mentees.
Seeking: Potential EER mentees and mentors
Date: Wednesday June 23rd, 2021
Time: 12:00PM Pacific/3:00PM Eastern
Duration: 1 hour
Zoom Registration: https://unr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIufu-upj8sHNe-S6JYqUcNqcv1RILGjtWk
This networking event will consist primarily of informal breakout room conversations between pairs or small groups of researchers interested in EER. This will facilitate connections between established researchers and burgeoning engineering education researchers. Specifically, this event may be advantageous to meet potential collaborators for funded projects, such as the Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF) grant which requires both a mentor and mentee PI.
Join us by registering today at https://unr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIufu-upj8sHNe-S6JYqUcNqcv1RILGjtWk
After registering, you will be asked to fill out a Google slide with your information prior to the event to advertise your interests to other researchers. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you soon.
CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPATION: Invitation to take Maker Schools in Higher Ed Survey
Make: is collating recommendations, for possible publication, on exemplary post-secondary “maker schools” around the world. They have created a short survey to gather information on the qualities that you as a maker, educator, student (or former student), and/or administrator think are the essential qualities of such institutions and, to gain insight into post-secondary institutions around the world that you believe fit the bill. The survey will take 10 minutes or less to complete.
Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YQRHKNN
Position Announcements
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Teaching Faculty – Department of Engineering, Design, and Society at Colorado School of Mines
The Department of Engineering, Design, and Society (EDS) at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) invites applications for a non-tenure-track Teaching Faculty position focused on “integrative design” education—teaching social-technical integration via design practice and project-based learning. Our unique Integrative Design Studios provide the core educational component of our BS in Engineering program. This program graduates interdisciplinary design engineers prepared to address the challenges of creating a thriving, sustainable global society. Candidates must indicate the position level for which they wish to be considered: Assistant, associate, or full teaching professor. We are especially interested in candidates who have a passion to advance the University’s and Department’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Visit the BSE webpage at https://eds.mines.edu/bse/ for more information. More information about the position can be found: https://jobs.mines.edu/cw/en-us/job/494765?lApplicationSubSourceID=
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: CETL Academic Success Coach at the University of Rochester
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, is currently hiring for a new Academic Success Coach position. If you are interested in study skills support for undergraduate students at a STEM-focused institution and assisting with research and program evaluation at a teaching and learning center, please consider applying: https://www.higheredjobs.com/region/details.cfm?JobCode=177480040&Title=Academic%20Success%20Coach
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Associate Director of Broader Impacts at Virginia Tech’s Center for Educational Networks
Virginia Tech’s Center for Educational Networks and Impacts is hiring an Associate Director of Broader Impacts. Please share widely. https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/515752/ceni-associate-director-of-broader-impacts.
Application review begins May 10.
Contact Phyllis Leary Newbill for more info: pnewbill@vt.edu
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