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Ticketed event: $35.00
Our engagement workshop begins by providing a wide range of insights gained from our own research in observing over 300 classrooms, speaking with hundreds of students, and listening to the experiences and insights of dozens of faculty and staff at five diverse institutions. From this point in the workshop, we focus specifically on supporting faculty and others who teach in engineering higher education to modify existing instructional styles to better engage students. Some modifications may involve diagnosing the affective and relational states of incoming students. Some modifications may involve small changes in instructional style that depend on the nature of the course. And other modifications may involve supporting communities outside the classroom (labs, recitation/quiz sections, study groups, etc.) in ways that can better accommodate the diverse needs of an equally diverse body of students. After the introduction, we will alternate between brief presentations on insights gained from our own research and small group, working discussions on these topics.

Speakers

1. Dr. Cheryl Allendoerfer

   Shoreline Community College

   Dr. Cheryl Allendoerfer is a research scientist in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. She has been conducting qualitative educational research in STEM settings for over ten years.

2. Prof. Rebecca A Bates

   Minnesota State University, Mankato

   Prof. Becky Bates leads the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs at Minnesota State University, Mankato. These project-based, upper-division programs provide excellent examples of highly engaged students, and she is now working to translate those experiences for students in her more traditional, on-campus courses. She has led multiple workshops on active learning, student motivation, and engineering ethics.

3. Dr. Tamara Floyd Smith P.E.

   Tuskegee University

   Prof. Tamara Floyd-Smith is a faculty member in chemical engineering at Tuskegee University. She has over ten years of experience instructing undergraduates in engineering and currently serves as both a program evaluator volunteer (PEV) for ABET and publication board member for Chemical Engineering Education. She is actively engaged in engineering education research and has published findings in both the ASEE annual conference proceedings and peer reviewed journals.

4. Dr. Melani Plett

   Seattle Pacific University

   Prof. Melani Plett is a faculty member in Electrical Engineering at Seattle Pacific University. She has over seventeen years of experience in teaching a variety of engineering undergraduate students (freshman through senior) and has participated in several engineering education research projects, with a focus on how faculty can best facilitate student learning.

5. Caitlin Wasilewski

   Seattle Pacific University

   Caitlin H. Wasilewski is an Industrial-Organizational Psychology Ph.D. student at Seattle Pacific University. During her graduate studies, she has been involved in several research projects investigating students, faculty, and graduates of STEM disciplines with the goal of improving engagement and retention in these populations.

6. Dr. Denise Wilson

   University of Washington

   Prof. Denise Wilson is a faculty member in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. She has over twenty years of experience in teaching a variety of engineering undergraduate and graduate students and has also led several research projects, including the one from which this workshop is designed, that seek to understand how both faculty and students navigate, engage, and succeed within academic communities.