Past Students
Abdullah Hamad
Software Engineering
Program & Project Year: Undergraduate Research Fall 2020 - Summer 2021
Project Advisor: Drs. Grace Panther & Heidi Diefes-Dux
Project Title: RAPID: Faculty Adaptability and Community Engagement when Teaching in a Crisis
The unfolding response to the COVID-19 mandate to teach remotely (online) provides a unique, one-time opportunity for ground-breaking research to study how crisis-induced changes to instruction influence faculty’s teaching experience. Two research questions guide the project: 1) During a crisis, how do engineering faculty and staff experience a sudden change in course delivery (with a focus on cognition, emotions, and community engagement)? and 2) How do these experiences vary throughout the duration of the crisis?
Project Dissemination: Poster1 Poster2
Lucy Atkinson
Engineering, Swarthmore College
Program & Project Year: Research Experiences for Undergraduate Summer 2021
Project Advisor: Dr. Grace Panther
Project Title: COVID: RAPID: Faculty Adaptability and Community Engagement when Teaching in a Crisis
Description tbd
Victor Moreno
Biological System Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
Program & Project Year: Undergraduate Research Summer 2021
Project Advisor: Dr. Heidi Diefes-Dux
Project Title: Metacognitive Dimensions Found in Upper-Division Engineering Students' Self-Reflections
Description tbd
Bilal Hamada
Computer Engineering
Program & Project Year: Undergraduate Research Fall 2020
Project Advisor: Drs. Grace Panther & Heidi Diefes-Dux
Project Title: COVID: RAPID: Faculty Adaptability and Community Engagement when Teaching in a Crisis
The unfolding response to the COVID-19 mandate to teach remotely (online) provides a unique, one-time opportunity for ground-breaking research to study how crisis-induced changes to instruction influence faculty’s teaching experience. Two research questions guide the project: 1) During a crisis, how do engineering faculty and staff experience a sudden change in course delivery (with a focus on cognition, emotions, and community engagement)? and 2) How do these experiences vary throughout the duration of the crisis?
Kayla Ney
Biological System Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
Program & Project Year: SNERP 2020
Project Advisor: Dr. Heidi Diefes-Dux
Project Title: Structured Self-Reflection Prompts for Guiding Engineering Students’ Actions and Plan
Students do not always engage in self-reflection when assessing their learning. This makes it difficult for students to plan and act to improve their ability to learn. Different types of structured self-reflection prompts were implemented in an engineering course to provide students with an explicit opportunity to assess their learning. The research question to be addressed is: How does the type of reflection prompt impact the nature of students’ responses in terms of articulated actions and plans across a semester?
Project Dissemination: Poster
Izzy Brown
Architectural Engineering
Program & Project Year: SNERP 2020
Project Advisor: Drs. Grace Panther & Heidi Diefes-Dux
Project Title: COVID: RAPID: Faculty Adaptability and Community Engagement when Teaching in a Crisis
The unfolding response to the COVID-19 mandate to teach remotely (online) provides a unique, one-time opportunity for ground-breaking research to study how crisis-induced changes to instruction influence faculty’s teaching experience. Two research questions guide the project: 1) During a crisis, how do engineering faculty and staff experience a sudden change in course delivery (with a focus on cognition, emotions, and community engagement)? and 2) How do these experiences vary throughout the duration of the crisis?
Project Dissemination: Poster
Victoria "Tori" Nelson
Mechanical Engineering
Program & Project Year: SNERP 2020
Project Advisor: Dr. Grace Panther
Project Title: Assessing the Impacts of a Middle School Spatial Visualization Intervention
Spatial skills have been found to be a better predictor of STEM degree attainment than SAT or ACT scores but spatial visualization is never explicitly taught. This project aims to better understand the impacts of a spatial skills intervention in middle schools. The research questions to be addressed include: 1) Is there a difference between Rural and Urban students on spatial tests initially and after the intervention? and 2) What do the teachers’ experiences about teaching the curriculum tell us?
Project Dissemination: Poster