We were excited to see a strong showing at the 2019 ASEE Annual Meeting from more than 25 faculty and graduate students in UGA’s College of Engineering, several of whom were funded to attend through EETI’s Travel Fellowship Program. UGA attendees accounted for 16 presentations across 12 ASEE divisions and three posters in the NSF [Read More]
08/23/2019
EETI Welcomes Dr. Racheida Lewis as Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
EETI is honored to announce the arrival of its newest tenure-track faculty member, Dr. Racheida Lewis. Dr. Lewis received her Ph.D. in Engineering from Virginia Tech, where she explored the influence of programmatic structure (i.e., general versus declared first-year engineering programs) on self-efficacy development in electrical engineering students and engaged heavily in efforts to suppose diversity [Read More]
08/23/2019
Congratulations to Drs. Carnell, Hunsu, & Sochacka on Their Recent NSF Award to Study Resilience
EETI is pleased to congratulate Drs. Peter Carnell, Nathaniel Hunsu, and Nicola Sochacka on their recent NSF grant, entitled “A study to examine and foster academic resilience in undergraduate engineering students.” This exploratory study will examine the role that academic resilience, an intrapersonal professional skill, may play in enhancing the performance of students in challenging [Read More]
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]
05/02/2019
Congratulations to Dr. John Morelock for winning 2019 Best Paper Award in ASEE’s Faculty Development Constituent Committee
We are pleased to congratulate Dr. John Morelock, who has won the Faculty Development Constituent Committee’s (FDCC) best paper award for the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Dr. Morelock is EETI’s Associate Director for Educational Innovation and Impact, and his research primarily focuses on engineering educational development and institutional change. His paper is entitled Academic [Read More]
04/22/2019
Forum: Distinguished Speaker Dr. Beth Cady from the National Academies
The National Academy of Engineering has long played an important role in examining engineering practice and leveraging its findings and resources to help guide the direction of engineering education accordingly. In this talk, Beth will give an overview of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as well as more specific programs of the [Read More]
03/25/2019
Forum: Spring 2019 Showcase of CENGR SOTL Work
The Engineering Education Showcase is in its fourth installment and has been the definitive highlight of EETI programming in past semesters. This semester, we have decided to go with a themed showcase around a topic of great interest from this semester’s EETI Interest Survey: Student peer- and self-assessment. During the showcase, a group of CENGR [Read More]
02/14/2019
Congratulations to the 2019 EETI Augmented, Remote, and Virtual Experimentation Grantees
EETI is excited to announce the recipients of the 2019 EETI Augments, Remote, and Virtual Reality Experimentation Grants. The grants are intended to support the initiation of both (a) teaching and learning projects that directly improve the experience of teaching and learning engineering in CENGR in context with laboratories and experimentation and, (b) research projects to [Read More]
01/23/2019
Forum: How motivated are students in my classes?
In this interactive forum, John Morelock will introduce five variables from Brett Jones’ MUSIC Model of Motivation that have been shown in research to affect students’ motivation to learn and excel in class. In addition to learning about these five evidence-based variables, forum attendees will have the opportunity to reflect upon and share how these variables have manifested in their own lives and classes, brainstorm low-cost ways to further improve student motivation in their courses, and discover methods of assessing student [Read More]
01/20/2019
Spring 2019 Activities
Announcing EETI’s Spring 2019 semester activities. Activities include six engineering education forums, including a talk from our new Associate Director, John Morelock. Beth Cady, from the National Academy of Engineering, will be joining us in the April. Our Faculty learning Community will be focused on educational and its practical applications. We will also continue with [Read More]