Interactive Poster Session Materials from the 2007 FIE Conference - Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education

In this interactive session, Scholars of the 2006-07 Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education (ISEE) presented posters that described their research projects during the Institute year. The session also provided a forum for the Scholars, members of the Institute team, and session attendees to share stories of their work as engineering educators and as engineering education researchers.

Participants in this interactive session were guided through the following series of activities:

• An opening activity where participants were asked to think about diversity issues on their own campuses and share this with others in their group.
• Viewing of the CAEE Scholars’ posters on diversity issues where participants wrote down their thoughts and questions on “sticky” notes placed on the posters.
• Group discussion about what they learned from the posters in terms of what makes a good research question, and drafting and discussion of their own research questions.
• All participants then shared the results of their small group discussions regarding developing research questions around issues of diversity and the global engineer.
• View details of the session framework here.

The Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education (ISEE) is one of the three elements of CAEE, the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. ISEE has conducted three year-long Institutes over the course of the CAEE funding period. The 2004-05 Institute was hosted at the University of Washington, the 2005-06 Institute was hosted by Stanford University, and the 2006-07 Institute was hosted by Howard University.

If you would like further information about the Institutes, please contact: Dr. Robin S. Adams, Purdue University, at rsadams@purdue.edu

Poster files (PDF format) are available through the links below:

• Asking a Question: Diversity in Student Learning Styles
  Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University-Mankato
• Engineering for Developing Communities, Cultural Competency, and Diversity
  Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder
• Investigating Cultural Diversity and Global Engineering
  Larry Bland, John Brown University
• To Be or Not to Be (a research question)... That is the Question!
  Karen A. High, Oklahoma State University
• Teaching-as-Research: How I Learned That Educational Research Is Not All That Different From My Usual Lab Experiment
  Kristyn S. Masters, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Diversity?... In Southern Oregon?... Seriously?...
  Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology
• ISEE 2006-2007 Additional Scholars’ Questions