Engineering Education Research Briefs Dr. Ruth Steveler, Purdue University

This episode rebroadcasts Dr. Ruth Streveler’s June 2020 conversation with Dr. Jeremi London – who shares her fascinating research on ‘impact’.
“I started to look at what makes studying impact so difficult and realized that it was very value-laden and it’s a discussion on what is something worth.  And discussions on worth are always really tough to have.” - Jeremi London

This episode rebroadcasts Dr. Ruth Streveler’s conversation with Dr. Shawn Jordan, who shares how he uses storytelling principles in his research in an effort to broaden participation in engineering.
Watch this practice in action!
“One of the key points of storytelling, and particularly oral tradition storytelling, is that they believe whenever you tell a story, even if it is someone else’s story, that part of you is in that story because it’s being told through your lens.  And that, to me, is one of the things is so transformational as both a research approach as well as a teaching approach, because if we can get underrepresented students not only learning but telling stories of people in engineering pathways then that might help shift their identities as well.” - Shawn Jordan

This episode is a rebroadcast of Dr. Ruth Streveler’s interview with Dr. Nadia Kellam, who continually pushes the boundaries of “appropriate” research topics and methods.  Learn more about narrative methods, and I-poems, and hear about Nadia’s courage to keep doing what feels right, even in the face of strong opposition by trusted mentors.
“I don’t know where … [the courage to do the risky thing] came from; [I am sure part of] it was a mom that was a feminist and pushed us to do good things and be authentic to yourself. … [With] some of those experiences … I started to learn that it was okay to do what felt right to me and to take that risk.” - Nadia Kellam

This conversation between Dr. Ruth Streveler and Dr. Emily Dringenberg took place during the development of a socially-embedded framework for learning.

Should we think of ‘smartness’ as a verb instead of an adjective? Host Dr. Ruth Streveler interviews Dr. Emily Dringenberg, assistant professor of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University about her research about deeply held beliefs.
 
This episode was produced by the School of Engineering Education at Purdue, and features music composed by Patrick Vogt.

Host Dr. Ruth Streveler interviews Dr. Stephanie Farrell, professor and founding head of the Experiential Engineering Education Department (ExEED) at Rowan University.  
 
This episode was produced by the School of Engineering Education at Purdue, and features music composed by Patrick Vogt.