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

  • Omwana Ni Wa Bhone … It Takes a Village

    To address a problem, we first need to understand that it exists.

  • Examining Linguistic Diversity and Data Science Curriculum in STEM Education with a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Lens

    How do we design and scale STEM courses in a way that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility? First, Dr. Manisha Sharan shares how linguistic d…

  • Advancing Interdisciplinary Undergraduate STEM Education for Increased Workforce Preparation

    How do we engage STEM students in interdisciplinary learning to better prepare them for the workforce? In this workshop, speakers share their experiences desig…

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  • Perceptions and Student Performance in Early Engineering Laboratory Writing

    NeedEffective communication is the most highly cited outcome in higher education, whether the surveyed are students, faculty, or employers. Early lab courses a…

  • Predicting and disrupting inequitable patterns in engineering student teamwork: To-date results

    In a poster describing to-date work on our NSF IUSE project, we present evidence collected on a tool for identifying and disrupting marginalization in student …

  • 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…

  • Improving Undergrad Education in Civil & Building Engineering through SCPS and Real-world Problems

    Need: Education research and theory show that active learning increases student learning and motivation. However, Civil and Building Engineering (CBE) addresse…

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