Happy October, Student Division!
Halloween is just around the corner, but just as scary is that many of our semesters are now half-way through! I know I’m not alone in feeling like time has flown by this semester. Although it’s especially important in these trying times that we step away from the screens and devices to enjoy the (mostly) pleasant fall weather, it’s also important to take time and celebrate those in our communities who may not be getting the visibility or recognition they deserve. October marks two awareness months designated to recognize just that: National Disability Employment Awareness Month and LGBT History Month. In line with our division’s DEI initiatives this year, our Diversity Chair Thant Soe has put together an awesome infographic with details about National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Our book club is also ongoing, about which you can find more information in the announcements below.
As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Adrianne (ajwheele@gmail.com) or Cassie (cswood@umich.edu) with any questions or concerns regarding the division or the annual conference, or to Skyler (me@skylerausten.com) with questions about adding a listing to our monthly newsletter. Until the next newsletter, stay well and take care!
Best,
Skyler Austen
Information Chair
Cassandra Woodcock
Division Chair
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General Announcements:
- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Diversity Book Club
- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Meet Faculty in the Field of Engineering Education: Virtual Community Meetup
- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI) Awards
- CALL FOR PAPERS: 2021 ASEE Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA Abstract Deadline extended to TODAY October 16, 2020
- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Frontiers in Education Conference: REDUCED STUDENT RATE AVAILABLE!
- CALL FOR PAPERS: Intersectionality and Education Work during COVID-19 Transitions – Journal of Gender, Work, & Organization
- SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Engineering Education Research Seminars at the University of Michigan
- WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Supporting Underrepresented Engineering Students in the Time of COVID-19
- WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Supporting Engineering Graduate Students in the Time of COVID-19
Position Announcements:
- POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Naval Research Lab (NRL) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Post-Doctoral Fellow Position at New Jersey Institute of Technology
- POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Post-Doctoral Position at Boise State University
General Announcements, Detailed:
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1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Diversity Book Club
ASEE Student Division would like to start a book club to explore diversity issues experienced in engineering. We will cover two books in the academic year. During these club meetings, we will invite ASEE diversity researchers to be there to relate it back to engineering and engineering education research. The second book will be selected based on the members’ recommendations.
We would like to start off with Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez. Current and future engineers need to be informed about the impact of their designs when gender differences are not considered. Especially when machine learning and artificial intelligence shape our future, we should all learn about the data content that is being considered. This book exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, which means everyone because male engineers can have mothers, wives, sisters, daughters who are also affected by this.
The book will be divided into two sections; thus, we will have two meetings during Fall:
(1) Daily Life and the Workplace (Chapters 1-6) will explore workplace discrimination, gender bias in academia, public transportation, influence of motherhood on career, brilliance bias.
(2) Design, Health, and Policies (Chapters 7-16) will explore data correlations and gender, data programming, tech companies, future technology design development, medical research methodology, diagnosing females, recognizing the cost of female gender roles, and policies for inclusivity.
If you are interested in signing up, please fill out this short survey. If you have any questions, please e-mail ms3297@drexel.edu.
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2. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Meet Faculty in the Field of Engineering Education: Virtual Community Meetup
Wednesday 11/4, 2:30-4:00pm MST / 4:30-6:00pm EDT
For more info and registration details: tinyurl.com/EngEdMeetup
New to the engineering education community? Have questions about research, careers, or the field? Back for its third year, and now virtual, this event provides an opportunity to interact with 14 exemplar faculty in Engineering Education. Session attendees will have the opportunity to meet with these faculty in small interactive breakout sessions, to ask questions and seek advice. Students, postdocs, faculty, and researchers are invited. Newcomers to engineering education are especially welcome!
This event is inspired by the Engineering Education Pioneers Project (NSF Grant # 1263512) and offered in affiliation with the ASEE Education & Research Methods (ERM) and Student Divisions. For questions, please contact Drs. Sam Brunhaver (sbrunhav@asu.edu) and Adam Carberry (acarberr@asu.edu).
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3. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI) Awards
Dear ASEE colleagues,
Thank you for your service in Electrical & Computer Engineering leadership. ASEE’s Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI) is excited to share information with you regarding our awards for the 2021 Conference. Please share the information provided here with your members, paper chairs, authors, and reviewers.
We have two awards this year:
ASEE Constituent Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Paper Award
To support a clear interpretation of these awards, CDEI hosted a virtual workshop on “Diversity Papers: Tips and Guidelines for Authors and Evaluators.” In addition to this workshop, rubrics for both awards are available on the websites above. We believe that your authors can benefit from this information as they prepare papers and proposals.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Take care,
Katey Shirey
Karin Jensen
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4. CALL FOR PAPERS: 2021 ASEE Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA
The Student Division requests submissions to the 2021 ASEE Annual Conference in Long Beach, California. Abstract submissions will open on September 8th, 2021 and close TODAY October 16, 2020. More information on the submission process can be found on ASEE’s website: https://www.asee.org/annual-conference/2021/paper-management/call-for-papers#cfp_2397
The Student Division is also requesting volunteers to help review abstracts and papers submitted to the 2021 ASEE Annual Conference. Reviewers can volunteer by e-mailing the Program Chair Adrianne Wheeler (awheel13@mail.depaul.edu) their contact information.
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5. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Frontiers in Education Conference: REDUCED STUDENT RATE AVAILABLE!
The Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference will be held October 21-24 online! This conference is a joint effort between the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division of ASEE and two societies from IEEE (IEEE Education Society and IEEE Computer Society). The detailed program is now available if you would like to see what types of sessions are being offered. Typically students find great value in the special sessions which are usually very interactive and unique to FIE. This year we have significantly reduced the student rate to only ~$50 USD (plus tax), and registration is still open! In the past, the student rate for FIE has been $350 which has limited students’ ability to attend. We wanted to draw your attention to this change and hope it allows additional students to be part of FIE 2020. If you have any questions, please email fie2020@akademikonferens.se, and we hope to “see” you there!
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6. CALL FOR PAPERS: Intersectionality and Education Work during COVID-19 Transitions – Journal of Gender, Work, & Organization
Please find the attached call for papers for a special issue on intersectionality and education work during COVID-19 transitions. I’m co-editing with several colleagues for the journal of Gender, Work, & Organization. It is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes critical work from diverse fields (and with a 3.101 impact factor). The deadline for an extended abstract (500 words) is November 10th, 2020, we will send out an invitation for full submission by mid-December, and the complete submission is due June 1st, 2021.
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7. SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Engineering Education Research Seminars at the University of Michigan
The University of Michigan Engineering Education Research Program is excited to be able to invite you to our 2020-2021 EER Seminar Series. Building on anti-racist momentum from the summer, we’ve decided to use our EER seminar platform to both amplify the work of Black and other minoritized scholars and to showcase research about the experiences of minoritized engineering students and/or engineers. Because of COVID uncertainty, we’ve planned for all of the seminars (through spring 2021) to take place virtually, via Zoom.
We have an incredible lineup (see below)! The seminars are all scheduled for Wednesdays, at 3:30 – 4:30pm EST, and most events are open to the interested public (though you must register to attend). More information, as well as registration details, will be available on https://eer.engin.umich.edu/events-seminars/ a few weeks before each talk, and you may sign up to receive e-mail reminders and registration links for the seminars using this interest form: (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVyS9joC9iHcoVLtvWuo939wn1ekHlVhBHZgBmVdIhpQ7TRA/viewform).
2020-2021 EER Seminar Series
- 9/9/20 Monique Ross, Florida International University
- 9/23/20 Stephanie Masta & Alice Pawley, Purdue University
- 10/7/20 Walter Lee, Virginia Tech
- 10/28/20 Rosemary Perez, University of Michigan
- 11/18/20 James Holly, Jr, Wayne State University
- 1/27/21 Danny Caballero, Michigan State University
- 2/17/21 Kelly Cross, University of Nevada – Reno
- 3/10/21 Adam Kirn, University of Nevada – Reno
- 3/24/21 Inês DeReito, University College London
- 4/14/21 Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan
We look forward to seeing you soon!
The University of Michigan Engineering Education Program
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8. WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Supporting Underrepresented Engineering Students in the Time of COVID-19
This webinar will address how faculty and administrators can support under-represented engineering students amid COVID-19, exploring COVID’s impact on MSIs and highlighting student experiences to help ensure minority students are not left out of major decisions.
Date and Time: Thursday, October 22 at 2 PM, ET
Cost: ASEE Members – Free; Non-members – Free
This webinar is partially supported by the National Science Foundation.
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9. WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Supporting Engineering Graduate Students in the Time of COVID-19
This webinar will address how faculty and administrators can support under-represented engineering students amid COVID-19, exploring COVID’s impact on MSIs and highlighting student experiences to help ensure minority students are not left out of major decisions.
Date and Time: Thursday, November 5 at 1 PM, ET
Cost: ASEE Members – Free; Non-members – Free
This webinar is partially supported by the National Science Foundation.
Position Announcements, Detailed:
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1. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Naval Research Lab (NRL) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The ASEE is administering the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Postdoctoral Fellowship program for many years. The program is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry to scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Navy. The NRL Fellowship has approx. 40 new postdocs positions in 2021.
Participants will work in a unique Navy lab environment, while interacting with senior lab scientists and engineers. NRL has a continuing need for scientists and engineers in many fields of research. Additional prerequisites: PhD in a STEM discipline. Fellow must be a US citizen or US Permanent Resident.
Fellows are awarded one year renewable fellowships for up to 3 years. The program offers a competitive annual stipend of $86,335 with a $1k annual increase, health insurance, $3,600 relocation allowance, and up to $3,000 annual professional development training allowance. For more information and a listing of current opportunities, please see our website at https://nrl.asee.org. ________________________________________________________________________
2. 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 continue until the 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
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3. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Post-Doctoral Position at Boise State University
The Educational Technology Department at Boise State University is seeking a motivated individual to fill in a full-time 12-month Post-doctoral Researcher position. The candidate will work on an NSF-funded project on integrating computational thinking (CT) in K-12 STEM learning. The candidate will work on the STEM+C research project under the supervision of Dr. Dazhi Yang. The project investigates how to integrate CT in K-12 STEM learning guided by project-based learning involving both in-and pre-service teachers working with small groups of students in an after-school program and in formal classrooms. The project has been partnering with the Boise School District and six community centers. For more information on the STEM+C project, please visit our webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/stemcproject/
The successful candidate will be expected to support the STEM+Cproject via research design, data collection and analysis, dissemination of research, collaboration with team members, and working with teachers and students.
To apply, please submit a letter of interest, current vita, and contact information for three professional references. Apply to STEM+C Post-doc Position at Boise State(Direct link to apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdn2R5nA_cus_RTZKmEfKsfEcpN-_dJO2Cw3Y8ktdOkTb_QPQ/viewform.
Questions about this position can be directed to Dazhi Yang at dazhiyang@boisestate.edu. To learn more about Boise State University, please visit our website: https://www.boisestate.edu