Student Division Newsletter, January 2021

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Happy New Year, Student Division!

 

I hope you all had a restful and healthy holiday break!  Many of us are back in the full swing of the spring semester, so we wanted to reach out and share some cool opportunities in the new year.  Obviously, these are still uncertain times for many of us, but I know Cassie and I are looking optimistically forward for a new leaf in 2021 :).  Best of luck with your courses and projects!

 

As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Adrianne (awheel13@depaul.edu) 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 | me@skylerausten.com

Cassandra Woodcock | Division Chair | cswood@umich.edu

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General Announcements:

  1. CALL FOR PAPERS: 51st Annual Frontiers in Education Conference
  2. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI) Awards
  3. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Engineering Education Study
  4. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Reviewers Needed for 2021 ASEE Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA
  5. SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Engineering Education Research Seminars at the University of Michigan
  6. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Queer Student Panel Recruitment through ASEE Student Division
  7. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Essentials of Effective Proposal Preparation by ASEE-HQ
  8. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Commission on P12 Engineering Education Survey
  9. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ASEE-EngineeringCAS Student Video Contest

Position Announcements:

  1. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Senior Manager of Curriculum and Training at Hack the Hood, Oakland, CA/Remote

 

General Announcements, Detailed:

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  1. CALL FOR PAPERS: 51st Annual Frontiers in Education Conference

 

FIE 2021 is scheduled to be an in-person meeting. If we cannot meet physically, the conference will be held virtually, and all finalized papers will still be published. The abstract submission site is coming soon. To plan ahead, download this PDF that provides submission information and review criteria. The deadline for abstract submissions is January 25, 2021.

 

We encourage authors to consider the FIE 2021 conference theme of “Envisioning Convergence in Engineering Education.” Convergence can be defined as integrating knowledge and techniques from multiple disciplines and from both academia and the workforce while also providing students the opportunity to develop their professional skills to competently address societal opportunities and challenges, such as those related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Specific topics of relevance include incorporating convergence into programs, curricula, and continuing education; integrating team science into convergence education; teaching convergence and responsible science via research, and using technologies to advance convergence in education and training.

 

Paper Categories:

FIE welcomes full papers of up to eight pages and work-in-progress papers of up to four pages that address the broad tracks of (1) innovative practice, (2) research-to-practice, and (3) research. Work-in-progress papers are typically in frontier areas; it is understood the work is in an early or intermediate stage and authors are seeking feedback from the community.

 

Conference Date: Oct. 13-16, 2021

Conference Location: Lincoln, Nebraska

Link to apply: fie-conference.org

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  1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI) Awards

ASEE’s Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI) is excited to share information with you regarding our awards for the 2021 Conference.

We have two awards this year:

1) ASEE Constituent Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award (https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/asee-constituent-equity-and-inclusion-award/), and

2)Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Paper Award (https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/best-paper/)

To support a clear interpretation of these awards, CDEI hosted a virtual workshop on “Diversity Papers: Tips and Guidelines for Authors and Evaluators” (https://diversity.asee.org/deicommittee/workshops/). 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.

Contact:  Katie Shirey, katey@edukatey.com

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  1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Engineering Education Study

Coordinating Curricula and User Preferences to Increase the Participation of Women and Students of Color in Engineering

 

Please consider participating in our research project. This is a National Science Foundation Funded Research project with the goal of broadening participation in engineering undergraduate programs through the analysis of student preferences for engineering curricula.

https://cue4chng.org/ Thank you for participating!

 

You are invited to take part in a study that examines student preferences for how information is presented in engineering  and social science curricula. We are interested in learning about your classroom curriculum for each course you teach. Our goal is to gather engineering and social science curricula so that we may understand what content is taught across engineering programs, and how it is presented.

For more information: https://aseehub.asee.org/discuss/viewtopic/35/157 or contact the Principal Investigator, Dr. Sharon Tettegah at stettegah@ucsb.edu.

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  1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Reviewers Needed for 2021 ASEE Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA

The Student Division is requesting volunteers to help review papers submitted to the 2021 ASEE Annual Conference. Reviewers can volunteer by e-mailing the Program Chair Adrianne Wheeler (awheel13@depaul.edu) their contact information.

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  1. 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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  1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Queer Student Panel Recruitment through ASEE Student Division

Our names are Brandon Bakka and Madeleine Jennings. We are both queer graduate students interested in studying the queer engineering experience. 

 

We are emailing to request panelists for our panel entitled “Student Panel: Understanding Queer Experiences in Engineering.” We are seeking participants in a graduate or undergraduate engineering program, who identify in any way with the LGBTQIA+ community, and who reside at the intersections of other marginalized identities. We recognize that queerness is not the only identity that is marginalized in engineering. We also realize that queerness intersects with other marginalized identities and that our current sociopolitical climate mandates now more than ever that we as scholars pay attention to these intersections of identity. Therefore, we would like to be intentional about elevating the voices of queer engineering students who reside at the intersections of marginalization, and particularly our queer, Black colleagues.

 

This panel will serve to educate faculty about the experiences and challenges that LGBTQIA+ undergraduate and graduate engineering students face both personally and professionally. This panel will be organized and executed entirely by students. This innovative approach provides a platform for a traditionally marginalized student group to share their stories and to educate allies. This panel will also serve as a pilot for a new type of training that reinforces allyship and advocacy for the queer community through participatory action and story-telling. This training is also designed to build empathetic connections through the sharing of real experiences that students have had in engineering. By grounding this panel in LGBTQIA+ student experiences and empathetic learning outcomes, we intend to educate our participants beyond just LGBTQIA+ terminology. The goal of this panel is to help participants empathize with the realities of navigating in engineering as a marginalized individual. 

 

Finally, we would like to acknowledge that sharing our stories as queer engineers can be both therapeutic as well as difficult. This panel is intended to be impactful precisely because we anticipate it to be raw, honest, and emotional. In the event that you do not feel comfortable serving as a panelist, we are also collecting statements and stories from queer engineering students to include in our training packet that participants will receive. 

If you are interested in participating in this panel, please fill out the following survey. https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0p7BamP9JVysZJX

We look forward to hearing from you!

 

Kind regards,

Brandon Bakka, He/They (bbakka@utexas.edu)

Madeleine Jennings They/Them (mfjenni1@asu.edu)

 

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  1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Essentials of Effective Proposal Preparation by ASEE-HQ

Essentials of Effective Proposal Preparation 

(Jan. 28 – Mar. 4, 2021 – Thursdays from 2 – 3:30 PM, ET)

Led by former NSF Program Directors Bevlee Watford (Virginia Tech) and Susan Burkett (University of Alabama), this six-part online program will prepare participants to craft and submit education-oriented grant proposals for NSF, provide critical information on proposal preparation from rationale to impact, and offer strategies for developing more effective proposals. Pricing is $600 for ASEE members.

Learn more at https://bit.ly/ASEE-Prep and

Register at https://www.asee.org/public/conferences/247/registration.

 

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  1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Commission on P12 Engineering Education Survey

The ASEE Commission on P12 Engineering Education is collecting information about activities and programs that support engineering education in the pre-college space.  These could be activities taking place with students or with teachers; held in-school, extracurricular, or in informal environments; working with just a few individuals, or reaching large groups.  The goal is to create a central resource so that all working in the P12 space can share with and learn from each other.  Below is a link to a short survey.  The information collected from the survey will be shared through a map and hub on the Commission’s website and to select programs to be highlighted in a “spotlight” section periodically.  No information will be shared by the Commission without first securing the approval of those who filled out the survey.  Everyone is asked to share this survey link with others they know who are involved in the P12 engineering space, whether they are members of ASEE or not.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/b6GreyywCLJBfon37

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Kathy Harper – harper.217@osu.edu

Katey Shirey – katey@edukatey.com

 

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  1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ASEE-EngineeringCAS Student Video Contest

ASEE and partner EngineeringCAS are looking for engineering and engineering technology students to create videos on Adapting to the Virtual World.

 

Tell us how you’ve adapted to the virtual world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Registration is open from December 14, 2020 – January 31, 2021!  See last year’s winners here.

 

First place receives $3000, second place receives $1500, and third place receives $500. 

 

Position Announcements, Detailed:

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  1. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Senior Manager of Curriculum and Training at Hack the Hood, Oakland, CA/Remote

Hack the Hood launched in 2013 with a mission to build a tech sector that works for everyone. We started out introducing early career youth of color, ages 16-25, to technology education and workforce opportunities through web design. For 2021, Hack the Hood is deepening and expanding. We believe, in this time of racial equity and technological advancement, our best value add right now is to address economic mobility for communities of color. In this role, you will be responsible for creating and implementing rigorous data science curricula and inclusive learning experiences across the U.S. You will work closely with industry and post-secondary partners, and will be responsible for setting the tone for our education programs across sites. We’re seeking a teammate with practical data science and STEM education knowledge, technical expertise, curriculum design experience. To learn more about the role and apply, visit: https://hackthehood.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=44

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