Institute Dates: June 11-14, 2024

As part of making MIDFIELD (https://midfield.asee.org/, the Multiple Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development) more accessible to researchers, the fourth offering of the MIDFIELD Institute is scheduled this summer. You’re receiving this email because you have a leadership role in an Engineering Education unit, attended one of our workshops, or otherwise expressed interest in research using MIDFIELD. Please share this email with students or colleagues who might be interested. The Institute is scheduled for June 12-14, from 1-5 pm ET each day. It will be held virtually with some preparation in advance. There is no cost to attend the Institute. We will be available June 11 from 1-5 pm ET at the same virtual meeting space to provide assistance with the advance preparation. Anyone who is interested should let Dr. Susan Lord know at slord@sandiego.edu and further information will follow.

Deadline: May 31, 2024

https://www.conecd.info/call-for-abstracts

CoNECD is seeking both evidenced based research and practice abstracts for presentations at the 8th Annual Conference of CoNECD: Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity which will be held from Feb 9-11, 2025. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

 Outreach, mentoring and recruitment of diverse K-12 students
 Mentoring, innovative recruitment and retention programs, and assessment of diverse groups of undergraduate and graduate students
 Mentoring, recruitment, retention, leadership and professional development activities for diverse faculty, administrators, and professionals in the engineering/computing workforce (including work/life balance and dual-career issues, listening and negotiation, workplace climate, and innovative programs supporting diversity and inclusion)
 Company/university programs, policies or reviews that impact particular diverse groups (e.g., Title IX, transgender people’s rights, veteran integration into academic institutions) including, for example, military experience to academic recognition
 Transformative research that informs the development of impactful and forward-thinking programs and policies on issues such as intersectionality of race and gender
 Integration of social justice into curricular and co-curricular activities
 Innovative curricular issues including inclusive pedagogies
 Managing identity across a global landscape in K-12 outreach, recruitment, retention, and academic success strategies
 The current challenges to DEI efforts
 The importance of cultural relevance and history in expanding the curriculum, pedagogy, classroom design, and worker spaces in academia and corporate settings
 Understanding inclusion, equity, access, and diversity in an effort to broaden participation, transform institutional leadership and promote student-centered success strategies in academia
 Unleashing the invisible factors of human potential to innovate, explore the unknown and develop community centered solutions to address diversity, inclusion, and access in industry and academia

CoNECD aims to include both researchers seeking peer-reviewed conference papers as well as practitioners who wish to submit a presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) associated with a successful practice. CoNECD will present a balance of basic research and development in the diversity and inclusion space as well as presentations that focus on promising practices successfully implemented in both academic and workplace environments. Authors may submit (individual or panel) papers or presentations based on accepted abstracts.

https://www.begellhouse.com/journals/journal-of-women-and-minorities-in-science-and-engineering.html

The Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (JWM) is announcing a three-month hiatus on new submissions, beginning May 31st and ending September 1st, 2024.

Why is this occurring? As a paper journal, we are limited in how many articles we can publish per issue due to page constraints. Currently, we have a backlog of accepted articles waiting to be published and we don’t want authors to have to wait 18 months from time of acceptance to publication. To improve timeliness in delivering our content to the JWM audience, we need to allow some time for the publishing schedule to catch up to existing submissions.

Although no new submissions will be accepted for review during the hiatus timeframe, we encourage authors who are nearly ready to submit their manuscripts to JWM to go ahead and do so before May 31st, 2024. We will be welcoming new submissions again in September 2024, with our newly reduced word limit (8,000 words). This new word limit will help us overcome our constraints as a paper journal while continuing to serve our JWM authors and STEM education research community.

https://www.neti-workshop.org/event/neti-1-coming-summer-2024/ 

NETI-1, Course Design and Student Engagement, the flagship offering of the National Effective Teaching Institute, will be offered July 30 – August 1, 2024, at Purdue University. Drs. Susan Lord, Matt Ohland, and Michael Prince will lead the long-standing foundational NETI-1 workshop, which has been offered since 1991. Previous NETI programs have reached over 3000 participants from more than 370 different schools. Our past participant evaluations have been overwhelmingly positive. The workshop features material for relatively new faculty members and other material designed to equip experienced faculty members to become teaching leaders and mentors on their campuses. Participants will include up to 60 faculty members from all branches of engineering, engineering technology, and other STEM areas. The registration fee is $1275 per participant, which covers organization and presentation costs, participant notebooks, lunches, and breaks. Participants also receive a copy of Felder & Brent’s Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide and the option of touring Purdue’s School of Engineering Education. NETI workshops have a powerful impact when teams of instructors from the same institution attend as a group, so for every three registrants from the same institution, the fourth is FREE! Travel expenses, including breakfasts and dinners, are not included. Further details about the workshop program and a link to register can be found at https://www.neti-workshop.org/event/neti-1-coming-summer-2024/ or email neti.workshops@gmail.com for more information.

https://seejournal.org/announcements#extended-studies-in-engineering-education-looking-for-a-new-co-editor

Studies in Engineering Education invites applications for a new Co-Editor. SEE is an international, open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a venue for high-quality research conducted in all settings and contexts relevant to engineering education, with an emphasis on contextually rich reflective discussions of issues and approaches important to engineering education researchers and practitioners. More information about the journal can be found on the website: https://seejournal.org/.

The Co-Editor of SEE will work with a team consisting of Co-Editor Dr. Marie Paretti, Associate Editors, and an Editorial Assistant to establish and execute processes to maintain SEE’s status as an international research journal in engineering education focused on qualitative and interpretive research paradigms. Among these processes and activities are: establishing and maintaining the editorial standards for the journal, managing the review and publication of papers, facilitating editorial board meetings, engaging the SEE advisory board, and training new associate editors. Executing these responsibilities requires approximately a 4-hour time commitment per week. Applicants should be recognized scholars in the field of engineering education at the national or international level.

If you’re interested in serving as Co-Editor, please send an email containing (a) a cover letter including a summary of relevant experiences, (b) a vision statement for the future of SEE and a statement of your editorial philosophy, and (c) a full Curriculum Vitae, all to Shane Brown at shane.brown@oregonstate.edu. All materials should be sent as pdf attachments not later than Friday, April 26th, 2024 by midnight EDT. In addition, individuals may nominate outstanding candidates for consideration. The current Co-Editors will review application materials and the selected candidate will receive an offer on Wednesday, May 15th, 2024. The anticipated start date for the position is Monday, June 3rd, 2024. Questions regarding the position or the search process should be directed to Dr. Shane Brown (shane.brown@oregonstate.edu), Co-Editor or to Dr. Marie Paretti (mparetti@vt.edu), Co-Editor.

https://www.conecd.info/call-for-abstracts

The vision of the CoNECD (pronounced, “connected”) Conference is to provide a forum for exploring current research and practices to enhance diversity and inclusion of all underrepresented groups in the engineering and computing professions. We believe that a transformation of our engineering workforce will not be the result of a singular focus. CoNECD will encompass the many diverse groups that comprise our engineering and computing workforce including groups based on gender (including gender identity and gender expression), race and ethnicity, disability, veterans, LGBTQ+, 1st generation and socio-economic status.

We invite you to submit an abstract to the 8th Annual Conference of CoNECD: Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity which will be held from February 9-11, 2025, in San Antonio, TX.

Authors should submit an extended abstract between 300 and 500 words on their paper/presentation topic.