The EFELTS Project: Engineering Faculty Engagement in Learning Through Service

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Dr. Swan has also served as chair of Tufts CEE department (2002-2007) and as an officer in the Environmental Engineering division of ASEE (2001-2005). Dr. Swan's current interests lie in the areas of waste reuse, and service-based educational efforts in the engineering curriculum. Specific efforts involving engineering education concern project-based learning and service-based pedagogies their potential impacts on student learning and how these impacts may be evaluated and assessed.

Transforming Engineering Education Is Possible! A Descriptive Case Study of Reimagining Engineering Education and Delivering a Wake Forest Engineering Student Experience Promoting Inclusion, Agency, Holistic Learning, and Success

“…(a) Engineering student motivation using theories like expectancy value theory, achievement goal orientation, self-determination theory (France et al, 2010;Pierrakos 2016;Pierrakos 2017;Williamson et al, 2016;McGrath et al, 2013;Panizo et al, 2015) (b) Engineering student identity development (Pierrakos et al, 2009;Curtis et al, 2017a;Curtis et al, 2017b;Beam et al, 2009;Stoup and Pierrakos, 2016) (c) Engineering education pedagogy focusing on project and problem based learning, flipped classrooms, service learning projects and community engagement (Pierrakos et a., 2016;Eladaway et al, 2015;Tucker et al, 2014;Pierrakos and Barrella 2014;Nagel et al, 2011;Swan et al, 2011;Pierrakos et al, 2010a;Pierrakos et al, 2010b;Zilberberg et al, 2010;Watson et al, 2010;) (d) Cognition and learning investigating adaptive expertise, cognitive flexibility, complex problem solving (Majdic et al, 2017;Barrella, Watson, and Pierrakos, 2017;Pierrakos, Anderson, and Welch, 2016;Pierrakos and Barrella 2014;Nagel et al 2012;Zilberberg et al, 2010;Trenor and Pierrakos 2008) (e) Assessment of engineering student learning (Pierrakos, Anderson, and Welch, 2016;Pierrakos, Anderson, Barrella, 2016;Pierrakos et al, 2012;Pappas, Pierrakos, and Nagel, 2011;Pierrakos, Borrego, and Lo, 2008a;Pierrakos, Borrego, Lo, 2008b;Pierrakos, Borrego, and Lo, 2007a;Pierrakos, Borrego, and Lo, ...…”