[ChBE-Grad] UH ChBE SABIC Seminar this Friday, February 3

[Solano, Nicolette]

[William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series]<https://www.chee.uh.edu>
Engineering Education: Connecting Research and Practice Across Pre-College, Higher Education and Professional Practice



Monica E. Cardella
Director and Professor of Engineering and Computing Education
Florida International University

February 3, 2023 | 10:30am
Engineering 2, room W122

LECTURE ABSTRACT
Engineering education is a field, an area of research expertise, the activity that engineering educators engage in, and a community of researchers and practitioners. While the focus is most often on undergraduate engineering education, the field and community also include researchers and practitioners focused on learning experiences for children and youth as well as the experiences of practicing professionals. Over the past 20+ years, in my research I have focused primarily on engineering design education, where I have conducted empirical research on the engineering design processes of undergraduates and practitioners and used this research to inform the design of course materials, sessions, and structures. More recently, my research has focused on the engineering design experiences of children and youth. It is becomingly increasingly common for children and youth to have some experience with learning about engineering and learning engineering-related skills before they finish high school. These experiences happen in a variety of settings, including: K-12 classrooms, in science centers, in Girl Scout meetings, as children play with toys or watch TV shows, and in everyday conversations with friends and family members. Learning more about the engineering experiences of children and youth has helped me to further improve my approaches to undergraduate engineering education, including the ways that we are structuring our new Interdisciplinary Engineering undergraduate program at FIU. In this talk I will share some of the landscape of the larger field of engineering education and then use examples from my own research and teaching to think about how engineering research and practice are interconnected, as well as synergies across pre-college, higher education and professional practice.

SPEAKER BIOSKETCH
Monica E. Cardella, Ph.D. is the Director of the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) and a Professor of Engineering and Computing Education at Florida International University. Her research and teaching interests focus on engineering design, mathematical thinking, and computational thinking across formal and informal settings.

Dr. Cardella is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education and a National Science Foundation CAREER awardee. She received the American Society for Engineering Education President's Award in 2019 for her work with the Engineering Gift Guide, the 2007 ASEE Wickenden Best Journal of Engineering Education Paper Award, the 2019 Design Studies Best Paper Award, and the 2021 Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Outstanding Research Paper Award. Dr. Cardella has co-authored over 200 journal and conference publications and served as the Editor of the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research from 2016 -2019.

Prior to her faculty appointment at FIU, she served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation and was a Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She has a BSc in mathematics from the University of Puget Sound, and an MS and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Washington. She was a National Academy of Engineering Postdoctoral Engineering Education Researcher at Stanford University in the Center for Design Research.





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