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.
  • An Interdisciplinary Team-based Framework to Engage Undergraduate Students in Biomedical Innovation

    NeedDriven by the need for biomedical innovation and its multidisciplinary nature, engineers from all disciplines have been contributing to the advance of medi…

  • Collaborative Research: Changing Homework Achievement with Mechanix Pedagogy (CHAMP)

    Need:Many introductory engineering courses in universities have hundreds of students, and some online classes are even larger. Instructors in these circumstanc…

  • Enhancing Additive Manufacturing Education with Virtual Reality and Cybersecurity

    NEED: The Cybersecurity for Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) project is creating a novel CSAM curriculum thread in a Mechanical Engineering program using virtual …

  • Improving Student Learning in Mechanical Engineering Using Low Cost 3D Printed Laboratory Devices in

    Need. In many institutions, limited resources for laboratory equipment can inhibit student learning of dynamics, vibrations, and control concepts due to constr…

  • A mobile platform app to assist learning undergraduate biomechanics

    Need: Biomechanics is a common sub-discipline within movement science, biomedical engineering and human factors which analyzes human body movement by applying …

  • Accelerated Learning and Assessment in Engineering Mechanics

    Need:Repeated deliberate practice in problem-solving practices is known to be beneficial in increasing students’ overall understanding of targeted concepts. Ad…

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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.