At the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference, I was awarded the Apprentice Faculty Grant. The members of the Educational Research and Methods Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) award the Apprentice Faculty Grants for demonstrating outstanding potential for substantial future contributions to engineering education research and scholarship. The other recipients in 2017 were Stephanie Cutler, Brooke Coley, and Cory Hixson.
At the 2017 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, one of my students published a paper about the success of a unique SWE event at Kettering University, Welding and Machining Day. The paper explained how the event was organized and summarized the feedback from the participants. Diane Peters, the faculty advisor, and I also co-authored the paper. The full paper can be accessed from the ASEE website.
At the 2017 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, I published a tips and tricks paper about collecting and organizing documents for promotion and tenure electronically. In this paper, I summarized resources I found useful during my first year on the tenure-track, some advice I was given, and a survey of other tenure-track faculty. The full paper can be accessed from the ASEE website.
Read more: Using Google Apps to collect and organize my tenure portfolio
On December 5, I presented a webinar for GradSWE on tips for successfully completing your dissertation. The topics included project management, time management, and writing.