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Engineering education research

Discipline-based education research

Outcomes-based engineering education

If you have innovated in your classroom and would like to share your innovation at one of the 2012-2013 CEER Brownbags, then let us know - send your topic to Jon, Mark, Claudia, or Daina and we will get you on the schedule for Spring 2013.

News and Events

General news and event notices appear here.
LON-CAPA Events in MAY Faculty Seminars and Annual Conference and Workshop In May, LON-CAPA will offer faculty development workshops, May 7 from 8:30 to 11:30 and May 8 from 8:30 ...
Posted Apr 25, 2013, 6:29 AM by Jon Sticklen
Charles Henderson, STEM Higher Ed Change Expert, to visit MSU Tuesday, April 2, 1:00 – 2:00 PM – 3105 Engineering Pizza, pop and networking starting at 12:30 (NOTE LOCATION... CSE Main Conf Room) Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University The ...
Posted Mar 28, 2013, 1:08 PM by Jon Sticklen
NSF TUES Workshops Are you interested in a competitive edge in writing proposals for educational research and development projects such as those supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Transforming Undergraduate Education in ...
Posted Mar 29, 2013, 7:50 AM by Mark Urban-Lurain
The Challenges of Spreading and Sustaining Research-Based Instruction in Undergraduate STEM The Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER), College of Engineering, Michigan State University, is pleased to sponsor a talk by Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University The Challenges of Spreading and ...
Posted Mar 22, 2013, 9:12 AM by Mark Urban-Lurain
Upcoming MATLAB Webinars The MathWorks has announced several upcoming webinars of interest. Note especially the first one focused on using MATLAB to create problem solutions, then turning the code into executable C. MATLAB ...
Posted Feb 7, 2013, 8:05 AM by Jon Sticklen

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News and Events for PostDocs and Grad Students

This area lists news and events of interest to graduate students and postdocs in engineering who hope to pursue a career in higher education. The emphasis here is on preparation for classroom teaching from an evidence-based instructional perspective.
Funded Fellowship Available for PostDocs and Grad Students - DEADLINE MARCH 18 Funded fellowships are available under a recent grant to MSU from The Council of Graduate Schools, the Teagle Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation. The funded project is called Preparing Future ...
Posted Feb 18, 2013, 8:55 AM by Jon Sticklen
MSU Wins Grant to Help Grad Students and Post Docs Prepare for Becoming Faculty MSU under the leadership of Karen Klomparens, Dean of the MSU Graduate School, and Doug Estry, Associate Provost, has won an award from The Council of Graduate Schools, the Teagle ...
Posted Feb 18, 2013, 8:49 AM by Jon Sticklen

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EER Funding & Publication Opportunities

Funding opportunities for DBER and SoTL research.
New Reporting Items for NSF-Funded Projects To comply with "America Competes" NSF has two reporting requirements. You have probably heard of the "mentoring plan" you must have if your project includes funding for post docs.But ...
Posted Aug 24, 2011, 12:01 PM by Jon Sticklen
NSF Cyberlearning. Deadline July 14. This NSF program is focused on leveraging technology with what we know about how people learn to make advances in how people learn. Full details on the NSF website here
Posted Jun 14, 2011, 7:17 PM by Jon Sticklen
Two KEY Submission Deadlines SOON... Mar 31 & May 26 The new NSF RIGEE Program for initiating research in engineering education kicks off with a submission deadline on March 31. This program is aimed at building capability in engineering for ...
Posted Feb 14, 2011, 10:45 AM by Jon Sticklen
New NSF EER Program - Research Initiation Grants NSF has announced a new program to support Engineering Education Research: Research Initiation Grants in Engineering Education. Deadline is on March 31, 2011, this coming year. The purpose of this ...
Posted Nov 17, 2010, 5:29 AM by Jon Sticklen
ASEE 2010 - Abstracts Open (forwarded from an email sent to ASEE members) New Website and Author's Kits September 3, 2010 Dear ASEE Annual Conference Participants, We are pleased to announce that the new ...
Posted Sep 3, 2010, 1:04 PM by Jon Sticklen
NSF CAREER grants Deadline:2010 - July 22, 2010CAREER grants target newer faculty to jumpstart their careers. Proposals are comprehensive plans for research, instruction, and outreach. CEER can assist with plans for instruction ...
Posted Jul 17, 2010, 8:42 AM by Jon Sticklen

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Selected Recent SoTL Papers

title	keywords
Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering	DBER
Improving Undergraduate Learning, Finding and Policy Recommendations from the SSRC-CLA Longitudinal Project	STEM education, 21 century, status in the US
Why don’t young people want to become engineers? Rational reasons for disappointing decisions	career perspectives; engineering education; salaries; shortage of engineers; women in engineering
Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education	engineering education, reforms
Linking evidence and promising practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate education	institutional change

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News for FLIPPED CLASSROOM

Development and design of flipped classrooms is a current issue of importance in CoE. The area has event announcements and new of relevance.
Web Tool for Journaling (free) Reflective learning is becomes a topic of discussion within engineering education circles. Reflective learning emphasizes students looking back over what they have done in class or exercises or any educational ...
Posted Jan 8, 2013, 8:07 AM by Jon Sticklen
Tool for Building Collaborative Teams - CATME (from Purdue) One of the key startup activities in building an effective flipped classroom is thinking through how collaborative groups should be constructed. The CATME project at Purdue has done a great ...
Posted Dec 3, 2012, 2:11 PM by Jon Sticklen
Tool for Self-Assessment in Collaborative Teams A critical function for most flipped classrooms is some organized and principled way for each member within a collaborative team to be evaluated with respect to group contribution and etc ...
Posted Dec 3, 2012, 2:12 PM by Jon Sticklen

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Instructional Technology News

This area has announcement of general interest for instructional technology.
Desire2Learn Classes Summer 2013 There will be a number of D2L training sessions offered by MSU IT Services during Summer 2013. D2L is the new learning management system (LMS) that will be replacing ANGEL ...
Posted May 13, 2013, 10:49 AM by Jon Sticklen
Tool for Posting to a Class and Faculty/Student Interaction - Piazza Piazza is a web-based application that enables easy faculty/student interaction. Students can post questions that teaching staff can answer, all posted so that other students in the class ...
Posted Jan 19, 2013, 6:41 AM by Jon Sticklen
Tool Available to Check Research and Grant Originality MSU now offers faculty, staff, and graduate students access to iThenticate. Significantly major granting agencies such as NSF and NIH use iThenticate to check submission originality. iThenticate has a huge ...
Posted Jan 13, 2013, 8:37 AM by Jon Sticklen
Desire2Learn... MSU Town Meeting on Friday Nov 30, 1:30-3:00 Interested in learning more about Desire2Learn? The D2L Implementation Team, through Libraries and IT Services, invites you to the public town hall presentation about D2L and the implementation process. Hear ...
Posted Nov 26, 2012, 12:59 PM by Jon Sticklen

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