Board 98: Findings from the First Year of a Project that Partners Engineers and Educators in Rural Schools

Abstract

She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean's Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.

Board 61: Insights from the First Two Years of a Project Partnering Middle School Teachers with Industry to Bring Engineering to the Science Classroom

“…Additionally, artifacts around classroom activities such as student reflections and other worksheets are collected for evaluative purposes. Newly in year two of the program, reflections have been transitioned from a paper activity to a whole class discussion facilitated by the classroom adults to mitigate some of the writing communication challenges discovered in the first year [23].…”