Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
Review our staff picks for timely resources related to pressing issues or use the search and categorization features to browse research, reports, and other materials.

Staff Picks

  • Characterizing Student Perspectives on Departmental Culture: The Student DELTA Survey

    Traditional Student Experience MetricsNational reports have revealed that although undergraduate education has undergone significant reform, students are not g…

  • The Value of Community Colleges: Bridging Gaps and Building Pathways to Increase Student Success

    (Video credit: CCC Marcom)Innovative Evidence-based Strategies to Disrupt the Current Community College NarrativeI was honored to be invited to talk at a confe…

results in Engineering.
  • Making Systemic Changes: Questioning Meritocracy at the Faculty Level

    (Image Caption: When thinking about a healthy ecosystem, the research team created this tree for inspiration. The roots show practices we hoped became norms an…

  • The Effects of Promoting Inclusive, Asset-Based Practice through Faculty Professional Development

    To better support engineering students and to create an inclusive educational environment, it is necessary to reimagine instructional methods and approaches. A…

  • The Impacts of Free-Hand Sketching in Engineering

    Free-hand sketching plays a vital role throughout the engineering design process. It aids in externalizing ideas as individuals generate concepts, supports com…

  • ThermoVR: A virtual laboratory for teaching and assessing introductory thermodynamics

    In this project we used a process of co-design with a cohort of engineering educators to develop and test a new VR learning tool in a diversity of undergraduat…

  • Transforming the Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Curriculum with Environmental Justice

    This presentation describes research on developing and implementing a suite of integrated, interdisciplinary, community-engaged, anti-racism training opportuni…

  • Preparing Professionals Through Community Engagement

    Experiential education is becoming a more important part of STEM education. Experiences range from within the classroom to extra-curricular activities. With…

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AAAS-IUSE is looking for resources that will help principal investigators, faculty and other education leaders improve undergraduate STEM education. If there is a type of resource you would like to see more of, or a specific resource you would like to recommend, please reach out below.