EETI faculty members, Joachim Walter, Nicola Sochacka, and Nathaniel Hunsu, will present papers at the 30th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, AAEE2019. Papers include: How mental models impact students’ engagement with empathic communication exercises by Kathryn M. Youngblood, Nicola W. Sochacka, Joachim Walther, & Shari E. Miller Cultivating a culture of scholarly [Read More]
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10/16/2019
Racheida Lewis gives STEM Alumna remarks at College Success Foundation
Racheida Lewis past a recipient of a scholarship from College Success Foundation, who provides unique integrated system of supports and scholarships to inspire underserved, low-income students to finish high school, graduate from college and succeed in life. To see her remarks, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypVH06oLdg.
09/10/2019
Congratulations to Drs. Gomillion & Sochacka on Their Recent NSF Award on Microcultures in Engineering Laboratories
EETI is pleased to congratulate Drs. Cheryl Gomillion and Nicola Sochacka on their recent NSF grant, entitled “An Investigator Development Plan for Building Capacity to Explore Diverse Microcultures in Graduate Engineering Research Laboratories.” The goal of this project is to build the educational research expertise required to study diverse microcultures in graduate research settings. Such [Read More]
08/23/2019
Fall 2019 Activities
Announcing EETI’s Fall 2019 semester activities. Activities include four engineering education forums, a faculty learning community on the topic of metacognition, peer mentoring breakfasts, and a teaching & learning book club. EET Incubator will meet regularly to develop projects as part of a supportive cohort. The flyer for all activities is available here.
08/01/2019
Dominick May gives keynote at International Forum for Online Engineering Education
EETI faculty Dr. Dominik May gave two invited keynotes and taught one workshop at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China this summer. In his keynote and workshop on “Online Experimentation in the Light of Engineering Education Research and Practice,” Dr. May provided an overview of different research perspectives on online experimentation and connected evaluation efforts. In [Read More]
04/10/2018
Workshop by Kristina Edström from KTH Royal Institute of Technology
When improvement of student learning is discussed, a common reaction is to assume that any new teaching methods require a higher teaching effort. And surely, anyone can improve a course by spending 100 hours more teaching time, but for apparent reasons this is not a sustainable strategy. So how can student learning be improved within [Read More]
03/27/2018
2018 EETI Travel Fellowship Program
Six faculty members in the College of Engineering have been named EETI Explorer Travel Fellows. They will attend one of two education conferences over the summer. Drs. Peter Carnell, Siddharth Savadatti, Robert Baffour, Cheryl Gomillion, Eliza Banu, and Grace Pokoo-Aikins will travel to Salt Lake City, UT, to participate in the American Society for Engineering Education [Read More]
08/18/2017
Welcome Nathaniel Hunsu, Assistant Professor in Engineering Education Research
EETI is excited to welcome Dr. Nathaniel Hunsu to the College of Engineering as an assistant professor in engineering education research. He has a Bachelor’s degree in electronic and computer engineering from the Lagos State University in Nigeria, a Masters in Project management from the University of Sunderland, in the United Kingdom, and a PhD [Read More]