EETI is excited to announce our first annual open house for the Engineering Education & Transformative Practices Ph.D. program! Please join us for our virtual open house on Tuesday, October 24 from 1:30-3:00pm Eastern Time. You will have the chance to meet our faculty and students, hear from the College of Engineering’s Director of Graduate [Read More]
Archive for the ‘EnEd Research’ Category
08/30/2023
EETI Graduate Students Win Three ASEE Best Paper Awards
In a record-breaking year, three UGA graduate students working with EETI won Best Paper Awards as first authors at the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference! Animesh Paul Animesh Paul, a first-year EETI Ph.D. student, won the Best DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Paper Award for the ASEE Division of Experimentation [Read More]
11/18/2021
Dr. John Morelock presents on models of capacity building with Dr. Amy Chan-Hilton
In November 2021, Drs. John Morelock (University of Georgia) and Amy Chan-Hilton (Southern Indiana University) presented on two complementary models of capacity building in STEM higher education during the AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education 2021 Virtual Conference. Session Title: Elevating Capacity Building Across Multiple Dimensions to Strengthen Transformation Outcomes Session Description: This Ideation/Innovation session presents [Read More]
05/17/2021
EETI undergraduate researchers publish journal article as lead authors
We would like to congratulate undergraduate researchers Hindo Kamanda and Davis Wilson on the publication of their journal article, The Role of Expectations in the Educational Experience and Professional Socialization of Engineering Students in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice (JHETP) as lead authors in collaboration with Dr. Joachim Walther. Hindo Kamanda is the [Read More]
05/12/2021
Dr. Sochacka discusses empathy work in SEFI seminar on Emotions and Ethics in Engineering Education
Dr. Sochacka was one of three presenters to discuss connections between ethics and emotions in engineering education in an online seminar organized by the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). Building on George D. Catalano’s morally deep approach to engineering ethics and her and her colleagues’ own work on empathy in engineering, Dr. Sochacka described [Read More]
04/27/2021
Drs. Sochacka and Walther team up with engineering education researchers from Virginia Tech to develop a framework for data sharing in engineering education research
Engineering education research has typically focused on researchers collecting new data, resulting in hundreds of data sets that have significant and as yet untapped potential to be analyzed beyond the focus of the original study. Given the significant public investment in these data sets, data sharing or secondary analysis has a transformative potential to produce [Read More]
04/21/2021
Update: Deadline for JCHE Special Issue on “Online Labs and Virtual Experimentation in Higher Education” extended
The Journal of Computing in Higher Education (JCHE) extends the deadline for the special issue on online laboratories and virtual experimentation. Authors are invited to submit original research papers through the journal’s online system until June 15th, 2021. EETI member, Dominik May, serves as guest editor for this issue. For further details reach out to [Read More]
11/18/2020
Dominik May Serves as Guest Editor for JCHE Special Issue on “Online Labs and Virtual Experimentation in Higher Education”
In these unprecedented times, shifting to online learning has been vital for institutions around the world. Though there has been previous experimentation with virtual courses, the global pandemic has made online classrooms/laboratories essential in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. Remote learning in STEM education has been achieved through the emergence of digitally augmented, [Read More]
10/30/2020
EETI presenting engineering education research at Frontiers in Education Conference
The UGA Engineering Education Transformation Institute displayed three research papers at this year’s FIE conference. Dr. Sochacka and her team Drs. Carnell, Schwab, and Hunsu shared recent research results about student resilience in engineering education with their paper on “Performance and perception: A preliminary examination of factors that may motivate students to bounce back”. In [Read More]
05/18/2020
EETI Releases Second RAPID Interim Brief
Earlier this semester, EETI released our first interim brief describing preliminary findings from our NSF RAPID project to understand faculty, staff, and student experiences with the COVID-19 crisis and offer guidance moving forward. Today we are releasing our second interim brief, based on 29 new stories (April 20 – May 13) from faculty, staff, and [Read More]