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Community-engaged heat resilience planning: Lessons from a youth smart city STEM program
(Elsevier, 2022-10-01)While recognition of the dangers of extreme heat in cities continues to grow, heat resilience remains a relatively new area of urban planning. One barrier to the creation and successful implementation of neighborhood-scale ... -
Engineering Deans’ Perspectives on the Current State of Faculty Development Programs in Engineering Education
(Tempus Publications, 2023-08-01)There is little literature exploring the needs of engineering faculty and the resources available at engineering colleges to support faculty development. Engineering deans are key stakeholders within institutions well-positioned ... -
Houselessness: Myth vs. Data
(The Arctic Institute, 2022-06-07)This brief draws on an ongoing remote ethnographic study examining how varying modes of housing insecurity are experienced by Alaskans. This includes: • an introduction to the term “houselessness,” which describes ... -
Building a Sustainable University-Wide Interdisciplinary Graduate Program to Address Disasters
(2022-08-23)Disasters continue to devastate communities across the globe, and recovery efforts require the cooperation and collaboration of experts and community members across disciplines [1-3]. The Disaster Resilience and Risk ... -
SAT patterns and engineering and computer science college majors: an intersectional, state-level study
(2022-11-05)Background Numerous efforts worldwide have been made to increase diversity in engineering and computer science (ECS), fields that pay well and promote upward mobility. However, in the United States (U.S.), females and ... -
Researching inequality in higher education: tracing changing conceptions and approaches over fifty years
(Springer, 2022-09)Fifty years ago, higher education globally had started to change radically in terms of the proportion of young people enrolled in the system as well as society's expectations for what this would deliver. From the outset, ... -
Promoting Equity by Scaling Up Summer Engineering Experiences: A Retrospective Reflection on Tensions and Tradeoffs
(Purdue University, 2021)A central challenge in engineering education is providing experiences that are appropriate for and accessible to underserved communities. However, to provide such experiences, we must better understand the process of ... -
Doctoral Advisor Selection in Chemical Engineering: Evaluating Two Programs through Principal-Agent Theory
(VT Publishing, 2022-02-02)Background: Little is known about how doctoral advising relationships form, but understanding the inception of these relationships can be helpful to address doctoral attrition. Chemical Engineering programs highly structure ... -
Early Career Faculty Transitions: Negotiating Legitimacy and Seeking Support in Engineering Education
(VT Publishing, 2021-02-11)Background: There is limited research exploring the experiences of engineering education scholars transitioning into faculty positions. It is an opportune time to explore these transitions because there is a growing number ... -
Using Learning Analytics and Student Perceptions to Explore Student Interactions in an Online Construction Management Course
(ASCE, 2022-10)The expansion of online learning in higher education has both contributed to researchers exploring innovative ways to develop learning environments and created challenges in identifying student interactions with course ... -
Advancing flexible electronics and additive manufacturing
(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2022-06-01)There is high interest in the synergism of thin-film and flexible electronics with additive manufacturing. This review primarily focuses on the prospective developments in convergence with flexible electronics manufacturing ... -
Student Approaches and Performance in Element Sequencing Tasks Using 2D and Augmented Reality Formats
(MDPI, 2022-03-29)In civil and construction engineering education research, a focus has been on using 3D models to support students’ design comprehension. Despite this trend, the predominant mode of design communication in the industry ... -
Variation in the Awarding and Effectiveness of STEM Graduate Student Funding across Teaching and Research Assistantships, Fellowships, and Traineeships: Student Survey Summary Data
(2021)Student survey data for this report were collected as one part of a project aimed at investigating STEM doctoral students’ funding mechanisms from the perspectives of doctoral programs as well as doctoral students. To be ... -
A Snapshot of Virginia’s High School-to- Postsecondary Engineering and Computer Science Enrollments
(2022)Enrollment in engineering and computer science postsecondary degree programs and careers (note: hereafter encapsulated by “engineering”) is not equally distributed across all segments of the population, despite continued ... -
Assessing the Impact of IRES on Researchers, Research Outcomes, and Students: A Case Study Approach
(Virginia Tech, 2020-09)IRES programs seek to develop globally connected future researchers while also facilitating broader long-term collaborations between U.S.-based and international research groups. Faculty and student exchanges are expected ... -
Assessing learning processes rather than outcomes: using critical incidents to explore student learning abroad
(Springer Nature, 2022-03-18)There is an increasing emphasis on assessing student learning outcomes from study abroad experiences, but this assessment often focuses on a limited range of outcomes and assessment methods. We argue for shifting to assessing ... -
Work in progress: Creating a climate of increased motivation and persistence for electrical and computer engineering students: A project-based learning approach to integrated labs
(2019-06-15)This work in progress studies the impact on students and faculty and their perceived value of integrating project-based labs with lectures on student learning in a sophomore-level electrical and computer engineering course. ... -
The Development of Remote Laboratory Sessions at the Stability Wind Tunnel of Virginia Tech During the Coronavirus Pandemic
(2021-01-01)This paper discusses the remote delivery of wind tunnel experiments performed at the Stability Wind Tunnel of Virginia Tech, in April 2020, during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. The originally in-person ... -
Potential engineers: A systematic literature review exploring Black children's access to and experiences with STEM
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2021-09-14)Background: As engineering remains central to the US economy, it is imperative that the innovators of this field reflect the world in which we live. Despite decades of concerted effort to broaden participation in engineering, ...
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