San Diego, January 3-8, 2025

www.neti-workshop.org 

NETI-1, Course Design and Student Engagement, will be offered January 6-8, 2025, at the University of San Diego. 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 365 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, electronic 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 the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. There is a discount for bringing larger teams from the same institution. 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/.

NETI-2, Student Teams & Advanced Student Engagement will be offered January 3-4, 2025 at the University of San Diego. Drs. Susan Lord, Matt Ohland, and Michael Prince will lead this advanced companion workshop to NETI-1. NETI-2 is designed for engineering and other STEM instructors who are already familiar with the topics of NETI-1 and are looking for more advanced active learning strategies to engage students at a higher level. The first half of the workshop focuses on cooperative learning and teamwork including how to form, manage, and assess student teams. The second half of the workshop prepares faculty to adopt inquiry-based instruction and problem-based learning. Participants are introduced to a range of inquiry-based teaching methods and given the time and support needed to tailor this approach to their own classes. The registration fee is $1100 per participant, which covers organization and presentation costs, electronic participant notebooks, lunches, and breaks. There is a discount for bringing larger teams from the same institution. Travel expenses, including breakfasts and dinners, are not included. Further details about the workshop program and a link to register can be found at www.neti-workshop.org.

Survey open until November 1

https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cw0PsOuAMp1OOhw

Researchers at Duke University are conducting a study titled “Identity-Inclusive Computing Tenets Incorporation in K-16 Computing,” which explores how the Identity-Inclusive Computing (IIC) tenets created by the Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE) are incorporated into K-16 computing education policies and practices. Please note, we’ve updated our IIC Tenets this year.

We ask that you please complete a brief survey by November 1, which can be completed online in approximately 5-7 minutes. At the end of the survey, you will have the opportunity to be entered into a raffle for a $25 Visa gift card. You do not have to opt into this raffle. Please also feel free to share in your departments, organizations, and communities. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at the email below.

A. Nicki Washington, Ph.D.
Cue Family Professor of the Practice, Computer Science
Professor of the Practice, Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies
Duke University
nicki@cs.duke.edu

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/Academics/Graduate/openhouse

In addition to our in-person Open House, there is an online panel (https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_07FTUmDZB8higfA) and a virtual graduate showcase (https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/Academics/Graduate/graduate-showcase). Deadline for Fall 2025 admission is December 1.

http://links.asu.edu/EngEdGrad2024

Twenty-one Engineering Education Graduate Research Programs across the U.S. and Canada will host a Virtual Multi-Institutional Showcase on Friday September 27th, 2024 from 2:30 – 4:30 pm EST (see the registration form, links.asu.edu/EngEdGrad2024, for more details). The program includes: (1) an overview of Engineering Education Research as a field, (2) a panel on what makes a good graduate application, (3) a panel on identifying advisors, and (4) breakout rooms and Q&As. For questions, please contact Sam Brunhaver (sbrunhav@asu.edu) and Cheryl Bodnar (bodnar@rowan.edu).

www.conecd.info

Registration open!

CoNECD is the only conference dedicated to all the diverse groups that comprise our engineering and computing workforce.

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 populations in the engineering and computing professions including gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity, disability, veterans, LGBTQ+, 1st generation and socio-economic status.

Members of ASEE, NAMEPA and WEPAN receive $150 discount on registration fees!

February 9-11, 2025
Westin Riverwalk
San Antonio, TX

https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5gUA5YwvHIVpEpM

Dear Engineering Success/Bridge Program Leaders,

This is Xinyu Zhang, an Assistant Professor of Practice in Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University and the PI of Effective Strategies to Recruit Underserved Students to Baccalaureate Engineering Success and Transition Programs (Recruit-BEST), NSF Award # 2320120; IRB-2024-788. I invite you to participate in this NSF project aiming to enhance recruitment of underserved students into engineering success and transition (BEST) programs at 4-year institutions (e.g., engineering bridge programs, those associated to S-STEM scholarships, MEP, WIEP, LSAMP, among others). We seek to empower BEST program leaders like you to enhance diversity in engineering. Participants will gain early access to our findings and receive tools to assess recruitment strategies.

Your contribution as a BEST program leader is vital. The survey takes about 10 minutes. Consent details are in the survey link. For more information or questions, please contact me via email at zhan5444@purdue.edu. Please share this survey with your peers to extend its impact.

Survey link: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5gUA5YwvHIVpEpM

Thanks for your participation to make a difference in engineering education!

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.