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…

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  • Expanding (into) the Field: Incorporating a Field Experience into Classroom Instruction

    This workshop begins by describing an ongoing collaborative IUSE:EHR Exploration and Design Tier project that attempts to enhance engaged student learning by i…

  • Improving Student Learning in Power Engineering

    Need: Electric power grid is a system that is in constantly evolving. In its ever-changing state, power system operator needs to handle the current and future …

  • Developing Optical Devices and Projects to Improve Undergraduates’ Research and Design Skills

    NeedProject-based learning is generally regarded as an excellent approach for undergraduate engineering education, but also one that requires significant resou…

  • Sketchtivity, an Intelligent Tutoring Software: Improving Sketching Skills for Engineers

    Sketching is a crucial skill in engineering, yet sketching education has continued to take a smaller role in engineering curriculum since the transition to Com…

  • The Role of Sketching in Engineering and Impacts of an Intelligent Tutoring Software, Sketchtivity

    Freehand sketching is an essential skill for engineers. Sketching enables designers to represent ideas rapidly and offload working memory. Sketching frequently…

  • Using Engineering Design Prototypes to Improve the Communication Skills of Undergraduates

    Need: The objective of this grant is to rigorously investigate engineering students’ use of prototypes during engineering design communication, and leverage re…

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