At the 2018 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, I published a paper about an innovative assignment that I created to help students connect theories from class to real-life applications. The full paper can be accessed from the ASEE website.
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In 2018, I was asked to share an innovative assignment as part of Kettering University's Principles of Effective Teaching (PoET) lecture series. In this talk, I describe an assignment where I have students share a real-life application of something they learned in the course with their peers.
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Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, many faculty have been asked to move their courses online with very short notice. Last year during the polar vortex I experimented with making lecture videos with PowerPoint. I have now updated the process again for the videos I am creating this year. The process is efficient and I think it meets ADA requirements for captions. The videos are not perfect but they convey the material clearly and are pretty good given the circumstances.
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At WE19 I collaborated with Yanfen Li and Nicole Jackson to facilitate a flipped session on applying for academic jobs. The slides and additional details from the session are provided here for reference during and after the session.
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In 2018, I switched from live in-class presentations of project results to video-recorded presentations. I surveyed the students about their experience and archived the videos and discussion boards for further analysis. Overall, the switch to student-produced video presentations was a success. In 2019, I shared the initial results and assignment design at the 2019 Frontiers in Education conference and the Quad-Pod Consortium Teaching Symposium: Transformative Practices in Teaching & Learning. The article is available on IEEE Xplore.
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Four years ago, I committed to several writing goals for November also known as academic writing month (#AcWriMo). That was one of my most productive months of writing. I wrote over 13,000 words and had over 60 hours of productive time collecting or analyzing data.
This year, I also have a lot to write including two conference papers, a grant proposal, a journal paper to polish, and new blogs for my website. So, I’m once again committing to academic writing month. My daily writing and research goals for 2018 are:
- Write at least 500 words,
- Read at least one source for a literature review, and
- Complete at least one hour of additional productive research time (e.g. data processing, planning, training, project organization).
I have one additional month-long goal this year; to figure out how to sustain the above research productivity beyond November. The daily goals meet the criteria for S.M.A.R.T. goals. They are all specific and measurable. Once a day makes them time-bound and they are relevant given the writing projects I have for this month. All three goals are likely achievable because the first and last goals are the same as 2014 and the second goal is a required part of the writing projects. The additional month-long goal is specific, measurable, and time-bound. I know it is relevant to completing my research goals to earn promotion and tenure. However, I also know it is a stretch goal which means achievable is not going to be an easy task. Given it is relevant to achieving my research goals and being a successful academic, I am committed to trying.
As I did in 2014, I am going to track and share my progress on my daily goals. This year I will be adding a reflection and adaptation step to help work toward the sustainable daily research and writing goal.
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Recent Publications
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Tips for Creating a Functional Personal Knowledge Management System in Academia
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Preparing Women in STEM for Faculty Careers through a Job Search Workshop Series
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Adopting Alternative Grading in an Upper-Level Laboratory Course in Bioengineering
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Development of a Community of Practice for Rethinking Best Practices in Post-COVID Experiential Learning
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Converting a Biomedical Instrumentation Lab From In-person to Online