About the Workshop
The EM Engineering Education Research and Scholarship (EERS) workshop will teach you about the ways in which the engineering education discipline, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) work, and engineering education research create value in higher education. It will engage you in productive, curiosity-driven exploration to identify an area of interest to you within engineering education research or SOTL work. As a result you will connect your interests to practices learned in the EERS workshop to conceptualize, design, and implement a SOTL or engineering education research study within your own contexts.
- When: August 4 - 7, 2025.
- Where: Saint Kate, Milwaukee, WI.
- Who Should Attend: Faculty members in a “traditional disciplinary” engineering department like civil, mechanical, electrical, etc. engineering department, (i.e., not those in an engineering education department or with formal engineering education training) that are dedicated to the completion of a EM-based engineering education research project.
- Cost*: $3,500 per person.
*Registration cost includes workshop attendance, airfare, lodging, select meals, one year of coaching and consulting, and access to a library of workshop materials.
What To Expect From the Workshop
Everything you learn from the facilitation and coaching team and other participants can be immediately applied to your context and topics of interest.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe the breadth of topics areas included in the field of engineering education and how those topic areas relate to engineering pedagogy, curriculum, and policy in higher education contexts.
- Differentiate between the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) and engineering education research.
- Recall qualities of human subjects research and the function of an institutional review board (IRB) at a university.
- Explain the purpose of a theory / theoretical framework in an engineering education research study.
- Differentiate between common research methods in engineering education research and justify the selection of a method in relation to the research question being answered.
- Design a SOTL or engineering education research study that demonstrates alignment between the research question(s), theoretical framework / scholarly evidence, and methodological choices.
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