Dear ERM members,
Today I am grateful for a very quiet day, with only one meeting late in the afternoon. I’m enjoying the quiet of my house, the sunshine pouring inside, and the thought of a productive and peaceful day ahead. I don’t often get days like this where I don’t feel pulled in many directions, so this is one day that I plan to savor!
I’d like to congratulate the winners of the ERM election for 2021. This year, we were voting for two new Directors and a new Chair. The winners for this year are:
Chair: Allison Godwin – Purdue University
Director: Cassandra McCall – Utah State University
Director: Jay Pembridge – Embry Riddle
Thank you for Nicole Pitterson for coordinating the election this year. In addition, thank you to those who ran but were not elected. I encourage those individuals to try again next year, or to contact Allison in the coming months to see if there are volunteer opportunities. Finally, I also would like to thank all of you who voted.
The annual conference will be here in just over a month! I’m looking forward to catching up with my ERM colleagues virtually once again. While it may not be ideal to once again be meeting remotely, we still will have lots of opportunities to network and catch up. In the next two newsletters, I’ll highlight some of the ERM-sponsored events that you may want to attend.
I hope you are all doing well!
Sarah
ERM Announcements for 6/15/2021
General Announcements
ASEE ANNOUNCEMENTS: ASEE’s Virtual Distinguished Lecture Series – Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, Trailblazer: Pioneering a New Pathway to Leadership and Inclusivity
ASEE ANNOUNCEMENTS: May Updates from CDEI
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Engineering in Crisis – An Oral History Project
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Call for Reviewers – International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: 2022 Chemical Engineering Summer School – Call for Workshop Proposals
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: NETI-2 advanced workshops open
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Reminder – Register for Virtual PEER Unconference June 21-22
Position Announcements
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Engineering Education Postdoctoral position in at the University of Houston
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Postdoctoral position at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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
General Announcements
ASEE ANNOUNCEMENTS: ASEE’s Virtual Distinguished Lecture Series – Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, Trailblazer: Pioneering a New Pathway to Leadership and Inclusivity
ASEE’s Virtual Distinguished Lecture Series – Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, Trailblazer: Pioneering a New Pathway to Leadership and Inclusivity, June 30, from 2-3PM ET
In the third lecture in our Virtual Distinguished Lecture Series, Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, Professor of Information Technology/Analytics at North Carolina State University, will discusses her research and the use of technology to address social issues.
https://www.asee.org/public/conferences/278/registration/new
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: Engineering in Crisis – An Oral History Project
This is a project of the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace. Our objective is to capture your thoughts, experiences, and responses to intersecting crises of COVID-19, white supremacy, anti-blackness, police violence, late capitalism, technologies and engineerings, power formations, state violence, academia, and engineering education over the past year. Oral history can be a story, anger and frustrations through rant, proclaiming joy and renewal, back of the envelope ideas and theories, poems, prose, fiction, or critiques. Oral history is anything and everything you wish to document in time. These are not peer-reviewed or revised. Your oral history is your truth to note for the next generation. Entries can be named or anonymous, with a suggested maximum length 1000 words to be published as a special feature in the next journal issue.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd52yAuQ6QwJZy4yJVAoMkT_0KRLR1z11iqAUOiSwktT6HCkw/viewform
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Call for Reviewers – International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace
Call for Reviewers – International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace.
The English and Spanish editorial teems are seeking reviewers for our review pool. The International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace is dedicated to the theory and practice of engineering that extends social justice and peace in the world. Our approach works toward engineering practices that enhance gender, racial, class, and cultural equity and are democratic, non-oppressive, and non-violent. The journal serves practicing engineers, engineering educators, and a general audience that seeks to better understand the progressive potential of engineering. The journal is peer reviewed, and the peer-review process is designed accommodate scholars as well as engineering practitioners and other interested parties. We do have a primary goal of prioritizing content over linguistic rigidity, and seek to nurture and foster scholarship in these liminal, often obscured subject areas.The Spanish editorial team is also accepting reviewers in Puertroguese.
English: https://forms.gle/TygfMa9QExRkRFs48
Spanish: https://forms.gle/YbMAbX7ra6qPnKXK7
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: 2022 Chemical Engineering Summer School – Call for Workshop Proposals
The 2022 Chemical Engineering Summer School will be held July 25 – July 29, 2022, on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The summer school is intended to provide guidance and resources to help new faculty excel as teachers and as scholars. It is intended for early-career Chemical Engineering educators (as well as future faculty) in appointments of all types; instructional-, professional-, or tenure-track.
The planning committee at this time welcomes proposals to present sessions at the summer school. Our goal is to build a program that offers a broad range of high-quality sessions, so that individual participants can customize their summer school experience for their professional needs and goals. We seek sessions that address a topic or issue that is of significant interest to Chemical Engineering educators, and that will have a real and lasting impact on how the attendees will function as Chemical Engineering educators. We would like to solicit broadly three types of proposals:
Pedagogical Proposals (150 min) are ones that address a particular instructional practice or pedagogical technique in education (e.g. active learning, problem-based learning, studio-based delivery, inclusive teaching practices, etc).
Content Proposals (90 min) are ones that focus on providing attendees with materials and best practices in a specific area that they may be teaching (e.g.what topics and how to teach thermo, fluids, design, etc).
Broader Professional Topics (90 min) center around professional activities beyond the other two (e.g. proposal writing, NSF broader impacts, advising, safezone). In addition, if your proposal contains a substantial component addressing Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, please describe that in the proposal as well.
The body of the proposal will be entered into a Google form (link below), and should be at most the equivalent of 2 pages long (excluding appendices). The committee may follow up with you to request clarifications or to discuss possibilities for refining your session to make it more complementary in the program as a whole.
To submit a proposal, please fill out the Google Form at https://forms.gle/5T9qimqE2B5e4rec9 , and include any documents as a single PDF. Proposals will be accepted between June 1, 2021 and September 1, 2021. We anticipate notifying presenters by December 31, 2021. For any questions on sessions, please contact the programming committee at ChESS+Program@bucknell.edu
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: NETI-2 advanced workshops open
The National Effective Teaching Institute has been given since 1991, reaching nearly 2500 participants from over 350 different schools.
Virtual offerings of NETI-2 advanced workshops are 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
Position Announcements
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Engineering Education Postdoctoral position in at the University of Houston
The Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston invites candidates to apply for the position of Engineering Education Postdoctoral Associate. A successful candidate requires qualitative and/or mixed methods research knowledge, excellent writing skills, taking initiative, proven experience collaborating across disciplines, and the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently. Most important the candidate must be willing to work in a fast-paced, high impact environment to help build and establish a new program.
The post-doc will support multiple engineering education projects led by Dr. Jerrod A. Henderson. For example, one project related to factors that impact advanced engineering degree attainment among Black males and another related to the impact of crises such as COVID 19 on faculty research, teaching, and service productivity.
Job responsibilities include:
Conducting literature reviews
Planning and conducting qualitative and/or mixed methods research projects collaboratively with project PI and Co-PIs
Analyzing qualitative and/or quantitative data
Publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals
Developing grant proposals under the direction of Dr. Jerrod A. Henderson
Mentoring graduate and undergraduate researchers
Participating in a post-doctoral mentoring plan led by Dr. Jerrod A. Henderson
This position is one year in duration. Required application materials include cover letter, CV, 1 writing sample (preferred peer reviewed publication), and a list of three references.
Minimum Qualifications: PhD or EdD in engineering education, STEM education, or education
Preferred Qualifications: At least one degree in engineering or other STEM discipline with demonstrated experience in education, engineering education, or design education, previous grant proposal writing experience
Application Deadline: June 18, 2021
Start date: September 1, 2021 (or earlier)
Salary Range: $50,000- $56,000 plus benefits
Submit all application materials to Dr. Jerrod A. Henderson at jahenderson5@uh.edu.
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Postdoctoral position at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
The Department of Communication and Learning in Science (CLS) at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, announces a call for a postdoctoral position. The position is fully funded for 24 months, starting in November 2021 (or another later date agreed with the applicant).
This is an open call for a postdoctoral project focusing on teaching and learning in interdisciplinary, individualized and flexible education in engineering and architecture. The successful applicant is expected to be a highly active member of the engineering education research group at CLS, which has an ongoing research strand dedicated to the thematic area of this position.
The deadline for applications is 31 August, 2021. Please refer to the advertisements for particulars and contact information.
Ref 20210301 Postdoc in engineering education research
http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=9622
For questions, please contact Anders Johansson, Senior Lecturer, Engineering Education Research, E-mail: anders.l.johansson@chalmers.se OR Malin Kjellberg, Head of Division, Engineering Education Research, E-mail: malin.kjellberg@chalmers.se
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
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