ERM Announcements for 8/15/2020

 

General Announcements

 

ERM ANNOUNCEMENT: Request for ERM feedback on ASEE Hub
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Request for ERM members’ input
JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Updated Author Guidelines Now Available: Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

Position Announcements

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Researcher/Program Manager position at UC Irvine
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Qualitative or Mixed Methods Consultant
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Visiting Assistant Professor in Introduction to Engineering and Design at New York University Tandon School of Engineering

 

General Announcements

ERM ANNOUNCEMENT: Request for ERM feedback on ASEE Hub
You may have received an e-mail from ASEE about a new Hub that is intended to promote communication among members. The ERM Division has a group site within this Hub. Please provide feedback on the ASEE HUB as to how you would like to see ERM use the platform. To access the Hub, please go to https://aseehub.asee.org and look for the group for Educational Research and Methods (ERM). Note the first discussion item welcoming members. Please use this discussion board to give feedback or start other discussions. How would you like this tool to be used in the future for ERM?

 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Request for ERM members’ input
The Teaching & Learning Work Group of our Startup Task Force at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is creating a document on online and hybrid instruction as guidance for faculty. ERM members are invited to crowdsource their knowledge and energy to improve this document and make it available for other institutions to use. In particular, ERM members are invited to share their collective expertise to:

• Correct errors in or add nuance to our recommendations; refine the language used

• Add or edit the list of references

To access the document and suggest changes, please see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hS8PJW7nhPgjto6-4qfH0YJOz2Gevgqh/edit

For more information on this project, please contact Atsushi Akera at akeraa@rpi.edu.

 

JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Updated Author Guidelines Now Available: Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering is excited to announce that we have published updated authors guidelines (https://www.begellhouse.com/forauthors/journals/journal-of-women-and-minorities-in-science-and-engineering.html). Among other instructions, we now request that authors include a positionality statement and section about how the researchers ensured the protection of vulnerable populations. Our updated guidelines also articulate an explicit expectation that submitting authors actively participate in the constructive review process of approximately three other manuscripts. Please read Editor-in-Chief Julie P. Martin’s editorial about constructive review (http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/download/article/203fb33c02179492/JWM-33945.pdf). We look forward to receiving your submissions!

 

Position Announcements

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Researcher/Program Manager position at UC Irvine
The Education Research Initiative (ERI) (https://educationresearch.uci.edu/) at the University of California, Irvine is looking to hire an Academic Administrator to help guide and implement its mission. This is both a researcher and program manager position. Come work with us on exciting projects and help build a community of education researchers at UCI!

For more information and how to apply, see: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06239

Please contact Natascha Buswell (nbuswell@uci.edu) with questions.

 

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Qualitative or Mixed Methods Consultant
The research team is searching for a qualified candidate to assist with duties surrounding a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant: Why We Persist: An Intersectional Study to Characterize and Examine the Experiences of Women Tenure-Track Faculty in Engineering. The grant explores the persistence of women, particularly women of color faculty in engineering, within the context of race, class, and gender. The consultant will join an interdisciplinary research team including faculty and graduate students from the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University, the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University.

The consultant is expected to draw upon theoretical perspectives across a variety of fields (e.g., higher education sociology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology). The candidate must possess a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Sociology, science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM) Education, Leadership and Policy Studies, Learning Sciences, or related fields and must demonstrate skills in retrieving, reviewing, and synthesizing literature related to higher education, sociology, anthropology, or other related disciplines. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in mixed methods research.

For a full job description with more detailed information including responsibilities, candidate qualifications, and application procedure, please contact Dr. Ebony McGee (ebony.mcgee@vanderbilt.edu), Associate Professor of Diversity and STEM Education at Vanderbilt University.

 

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Visiting Assistant Professor in Introduction to Engineering and Design at New York University Tandon School of Engineering
NYU is currently hiring for a Visiting Faculty in Introduction to Engineering and Design: https://apply.interfolio.com/77323. We are inviting applications for a full-time position with a start date of September 1, 2020. Given the time sensitivity we hope to expedite the recruitment process. EG 1003 is a multidisciplinary first-year engineering course that is required for all engineering majors at NYU Tandon. This course is team taught by a group of faculty who are supported by a large team of teaching assistants. We are looking for exceptional candidates with experience in engineering education or the engineering profession interested in supporting a diverse student body. Learn more and apply to join our team here: https://apply.interfolio.com/77323.

For more information, contact Jack Bringardner at jack.bringardner@nyu.edu.

 

To send an announcement to the ERM listserv, please prepare a 2-3 paragraph description including any relevant URLs and contact info as well as a subject line. Do not include any attachments. Be sure that the announcement includes the person to contact with questions. Email all of this information to Sarah Zappe at ser163@psu.edu with [ERM Announcement] in the subject line to facilitate email sorting. Announcements will be sent out on the 1st and 15th of each month. Each set of announcements will be included in the announcements email twice. Announcements will also be recorded on the ERM website: http://erm.asee.org/

For more resources and position announcements, please see the Engineering Education Community Resource Wiki available at http://bit.ly/engredu. A direct link to job postings at https://bitly.com/eecr-jobs.

ERM Announcements for 8/1/2020

General Announcements

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Request for ERM members’ input
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Call for input and leadership for the EER Taxonomy
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 2020 Online PEER unconference for early career engineering education faculty
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Request for Faculty Productivity Study Respondents
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Engineering faculty, staff and administrators experiences and perceptions of undergraduate student mental health
Position Announcements

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Qualitative or Mixed Methods Consultant
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Visiting Assistant Professor in Introduction to Engineering and Design at New York University Tandon School of Engineering
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Lecturer in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan College of Engineering
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Post-Doctoral Fellow Position at New Jersey Institute of Technology
General Announcements

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Request for ERM members’ input
The Teaching & Learning Work Group of our Startup Task Force at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is creating a document on online and hybrid instruction as guidance for faculty. ERM members are invited to crowdsource their knowledge and energy to improve this document and make it available for other institutions to use. In particular, ERM members are invited to share their collective expertise to:

• Correct errors in or add nuance to our recommendations; refine the language used

• Add or edit the list of references

To access the document and suggest changes, please see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hS8PJW7nhPgjto6-4qfH0YJOz2Gevgqh/edit

For more information on this project, please contact Atsushi Akera at akeraa@rpi.edu.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Call for input and leadership for the EER Taxonomy
You may be familiar with the Engineering Education Research Taxonomy of Keywords (http://taxonomy.engin.umich.edu/). Among other things, it is used by several engineering education journals as a recommended source for authors to select keywords when submitting articles. Maura Borrego and I developed the taxonomy through a series of inclusive community activities in 2013, and a “Taxonomy Review Committee” (including representatives from several journals) was tasked with periodically updating it. The committee will be meeting soon to clear out the list of proposed changes to the taxonomy.

At this year’s ASEE conference, there were many good discussions about the need to update the taxonomy to better reflect current research theory and approaches related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other things. It is time for a more comprehensive review of the taxonomy, led by a new generation of scholars.

I’d like to hear your thoughts about the taxonomy! If you’ve used the taxonomy, have feedback about it, and/or if you are interested in participating in (or even potentially leading) efforts to update it, please complete this google form (https://tinyurl.com/EERTaxonomyInput) before August 15, 2020. Work to update the taxonomy will involve a diverse set of participants (e.g., graduate students, faculty, other researchers, and administrators), so everyone is welcome to provide input. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks, Cindy Finelli (cfinelli@umich.edu).

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 2020 Online PEER unconference for early career engineering education faculty
The PEER collaborative is a peer mentoring network for early career faculty members primarily evaluated based on engineering education scholarship. Members of PEER host a yearly one day ‘unconference’ style meeting to develop professional networks, share lessons learned, and give/get support. The unconference event allows us to self-organize breakout sessions that serve the needs of those at the conference. Everyone has a different takeaway from PEER, but past versions have left attendees with new professional colleagues, new mentors and mentees, writing groups, grant collaborations, and (best of all) a network of others living overlapping experiences.

Given the ongoing changes to academic life resulting from COVID-19, we have moved our yearly conference off of its traditional schedule during the week of ASEE. This year, PEER will be hosted in a flexible online format on July 27th and 28th

If you are, or know of, an early career engineering education faculty member who might benefit from meeting others going sharing that experience, we would love to meet you and have you join us. Participation in the unconference is free and flexible based on your schedule. We currently have 28 other early career faculty signed up from a broad range of institutions and different types of faculty positions. We would love to have anyone else who thinks they would benefit from participation. If you have considered attending PEER before, but either did not or could not, this is the perfect year to give it a shot!

For more information, or to register, please contact Todd Fernandez (Todd.Fernandez@BME.gatech.edu)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Request for Faculty Productivity Study Respondents
We are looking for participants for our grant, Impact of Faculty Mentoring on Faculty Productivity, from the Mentoring 360 Consortium of Arizona State University. Our mission is to develop a survey to assess the effects of mentoring and other professional development on tenure-related outcomes. To guide survey development, we are conducting interviews of tenure-track faculty. Specifically, we are looking for engineering faculty who are approximately one year away from a tenure decision (putting packages in this fall). We seek a wide range of respondents. If you know of a potential candidate, will you please forward this message (with a cc to me) or kindly provide contact information so we can follow up? Of course, this research is covered by an IRB which was just approved.

We are recruiting now and plan to conclude this phase by the end of July (2020). If you are interested in participating in our study, please click the following link: https://clemson.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a2ILAyZywKKUkG9

For more information, please contact Karen High, Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, at khigh@clemson.edu.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Engineering faculty, staff and administrators experiences and perceptions of undergraduate student mental health
Sarah Wilson (Chemical and Materials Engineering), Joseph Hammer (Counseling Psychology) and Ellen Usher (Educational Psychology) from the University of Kentucky have developed a research study aimed at understanding the experiences and perceptions of engineering faculty, staff and administrators related to undergraduate student mental health. If you are interested in participating, you must be at least 18 years old and hold a faculty or staff position in engineering. The participation time will be approximately 10 minutes. This survey is anonymous which means that investigators will neither know which responses belong to you, nor even that you participated. If you would like to participate, please click this link: https://bit.ly/2NKjms6 (Please note: you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser). Feel free to pass this study on to other colleagues in engineering. If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Wilson at s.wilson@uky.edu.

Position Announcements

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Qualitative or Mixed Methods Consultant
The research team is searching for a qualified candidate to assist with duties surrounding a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant: Why We Persist: An Intersectional Study to Characterize and Examine the Experiences of Women Tenure-Track Faculty in Engineering. The grant explores the persistence of women, particularly women of color faculty in engineering, within the context of race, class, and gender. The consultant will join an interdisciplinary research team including faculty and graduate students from the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University, the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University.

The consultant is expected to draw upon theoretical perspectives across a variety of fields (e.g., higher education sociology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology). The candidate must possess a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Sociology, science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM) Education, Leadership and Policy Studies, Learning Sciences, or related fields and must demonstrate skills in retrieving, reviewing, and synthesizing literature related to higher education, sociology, anthropology, or other related disciplines. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in mixed methods research.

For a full job description with more detailed information including responsibilities, candidate qualifications, and application procedure, please contact Dr. Ebony McGee (ebony.mcgee@vanderbilt.edu), Associate Professor of Diversity and STEM Education at Vanderbilt University.

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Visiting Assistant Professor in Introduction to Engineering and Design at New York University Tandon School of Engineering
NYU is currently hiring for a Visiting Faculty in Introduction to Engineering and Design: https://apply.interfolio.com/77323. We are inviting applications for a full-time position with a start date of September 1, 2020. Given the time sensitivity we hope to expedite the recruitment process. EG 1003 is a multidisciplinary first-year engineering course that is required for all engineering majors at NYU Tandon. This course is team taught by a group of faculty who are supported by a large team of teaching assistants. We are looking for exceptional candidates with experience in engineering education or the engineering profession interested in supporting a diverse student body. Learn more and apply to join our team here: https://apply.interfolio.com/77323.

For more information, contact Jack Bringardner at jack.bringardner@nyu.edu.

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Lecturer in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan College of Engineering
The Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan College of Engineering seeks skilled and enthusiastic applicants for the position of Lecturer I. The College of Engineering is committed to the academic excellence of its student body, with special emphasis on the ability of graduates to express themselves and their ideas in a professional and highly successful manner. As such, the Program in Technical Communication plays a significant role in the delivery of a communication curriculum across the college, with special focus in the first year courses, laboratories and capstone designs. Technical Communication faculty deliver communication instruction in the context of engineering content and engineering project work and integrate technical communication, teamwork, and ethics within the engineering curricula.

For more information and to apply, go to https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/187219/leo_lecturer_i_in_technical_communication?fbclid=IwAR3UoYy6lWNHMhfe2WQ_IR_um-bBOE8rRjOSUynSYBLjqIJg2pmAkBTwWG8

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Post-Doctoral Fellow Position at New Jersey Institute of Technology
We are seeking a post‐doctoral fellow for a NSF‐funded collaborative research project examining STEM faculty’s participation in entrepreneurship programs, particularly with an emphasis on women and the intersectionality of gender and race. The project team includes Prateek Shekhar (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Aileen Huang-Saad (University of Michigan), and Joi Mondisa (University of Michigan).

The primary responsibilities of the post‐doctoral fellow include: contribute to development of interview protocol; conduct semi-structured interviews; analyze qualitative data; mentor graduate and undergraduate students; participate in collaborative project meetings of the team members; present research at conferences; and draft manuscripts for peer‐reviewed publication.

Required: Ph.D. from an accredited institution in engineering education, higher education, STEM education or other related fields. A demonstrated ability to work/collaborate with others and work independently.

Desired: Demonstrated experience with one or more of the following: conducting discipline-based education or higher education research using qualitative research methods; analyzing qualitative data; strong oral and written communication skills.

Applicants should submit 1) CV, 2) cover letter, 3) a writing sample (published or unpublished work) and 4) contact information for three references via https://njit.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=1698. Curriculum vitae should include publications and presentations. Review of applications will be and continue until position is filled. The start date is negotiable between September 2020 and December 2020.

For any questions, feel free to contact Prateek Shekhar at pshekhar@njit.edu