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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  • Improving Solid Mechanics Education using Multi-Scale Material Characterization and Visualization

    Undergraduate solid mechanics courses can assist students to understand how materials deform under various loading conditions. Additionally, solid mechanics is…

  • Improving Student Learning in Power Engineering – The Use of Concept Maps as Evaluation Tool

    Need: Today’s electric power grid is an intelligent and interconnected system, characterized by larger amount of renewable and distributed energy resources, sm…

  • Improving Students’ Creative Problem Solving Skills in Engineering using Visual Representation

    Contemporary problems are not well defined and have multiple possible causes that are unlikely to be solved by traditional means. Under these circumstances, en…

  • Experiences in Managing Large, Multi-Institution Research Projects

    Need. The future of research is about transdisciplinary collaboration that explores how intersected disciplinary perspectives can effectively address important…

  • Exploratory Learning Activities in Undergraduate STEM Courses

    Need: Exploratory learning is an active-learning technique that has been shown to improve students’ conceptual understanding. Exploratory learning reverses the…

  • Focus on Methods: Developing Stories for an Ecological Belonging Intervention in Engineering

    Our grant - Course-based Adaptations of an Ecological Belonging Intervention to Transform Engineering Representation at Scale" uses an ecological belonging int…

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