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Adding Visual Signals To Machine Shop Equipment: A Case Study Of Deaf Gain In Engineering Education Open
Deafness has historically been portrayed as a disability in engineering culture.Deaf engineers are portrayed as needing additional support to obtain communication access to engineering classrooms and to "overcome" communication barriers wi…
What Can Reflections from an "Innovation in Engineering Education" Workshop Teach New Faculty? Open
What Can Reflections From an "Innovation in Engineering Education" Workshop Teach New Faculty?Designers of faculty workshops often hope to transform the way workshop attendeesunderstand their roles as educators. How do changes in attendee …
Lessons Learned from Others’ Stories: How Changemakers’ Stories Changed Us Open
Lessons Learned from Others’ Stories: How Changemakers’ Stories Changed UsWhat happens when your research changes you? In the Fall of 2011, we came together toanalyze eight transcripts from interviews with Changemakers, prominent change ag…
Engineering and Engineering Education as Spiritual Vocations Open
Engineering and Engineering Education as Spiritual VocationsSpirituality and engineering (education) are often kept in separate compartmentsin our lives. They may slip out occasionally for conversations during ethicsclasses or service lear…
What is engineering? Open
Point of view: I'm a contagiously enthusiastic hacker, scholar, and teacher with an industry background in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities. As a teenager at the Illinois Math and Science Academy, I loved storytelling and c…
Conversation and Participation Architectures: Practices for Creating Dialogic Spaces with Engineering Students Open
This paper explores several conversation and participation architectures with affordances for holding challenging and awkward conversations: Open Sentences, Four Voices, Step-back Consulting, and Circle Way. For each architecture, we explo…
View article: Cargo Cults and Cognitive Apprenticeships: Two Frameworks for Adopting Unfamiliar Curricular Cultures
Cargo Cults and Cognitive Apprenticeships: Two Frameworks for Adopting Unfamiliar Curricular Cultures Open
This theory paper suggests a contrasting pair of frames through which to view faculty attempts to adopt curricular cultures, as when introducing new pedagogies into courses. Attempts that use a cargo cult framing treat novel pedagogies as …
Talking "Faculty Development" with Engineering Educators, Then Talking "Engineering Education" with Faculty Developers: A Collaborative Reflection on Working Across Communities Open
Over the last several years, the engineering education research community has aimed to disseminate and implement its work in engineering classrooms. Several investigations have explored reasons for and barriers to the adoption of evidence-…