Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education – Our Research

Improving Teaching

Our faculty are always looking for better ways to teach science, engineering and math to our students. Here’s some of their research presented at the 2015 Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers conference in Ireland and the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education conference in Seattle, Washington.

Faculty Papers

2015 IEEE Conference

Sarah Summers and Anneliese Watt: Quick and Dirty Usability Testing in the Technical Communication Classroom
Julia Williams: Using Project Workflow to Teach Engineering Communication
Julia Williams: Making Academic Change Happen – Any Way We Can?

Only Rose-Hulman faculty are listed. For a complete list, see the conference brochure.

American Society for Engineering Education 2015 Conference Papers

Carlotta Berry: Teaching a First Course in Human-Robot Interaction 
Carlotta Berry: Teaching an Electrical Circuits Course Online 
Mark Minster, Rich House, Patsy Brackin, and Corey Taylor: Valuing, Learning: Revising a Sustainability Curriculum for First-Year Students 
Ella Ingram and Julia Williams: Leadership Development in Change: A Panel to Explore Experiences, Skills, and Learning in Change Management for New Engineering Educators 
Michelle Marincel Payne, Michael Robinson, and Jennifer Mueller Price: Developing a Course-based Master of Environmental Engineering Degree 
Jennifer Mueller Price: Providing Students with Hands-on Experiences Through the Construction of a Treatment Wetland 
Julia Williams: Assessment of the Rose-Hulman Leadership Academy 
Ella Ingram and Julia Williams: The Rising Engineering Education Faculty Experience (REEFE): Preparing Junior Colleagues 
Don Richards: Understanding a New Paradigm for Engineering Science Education Using Knowledge about Student Learning 
Richard Layton: Understanding Diverse Pathways: Disciplinary Trajectories of Engineering Students: Year 3- NSF REE Grant 1129383 
Jay McCormack: Using the EPSA Rubric and EPSA Score to Evaluate Student Learning at the Course and Program Level 
Richard Layton: Optimizing Student Team Skill Development using Evidence-Based Strategies—NSF Award 1431694 
Richard Layton: The Rapid Adoption of SMARTER Teamwork Tools: the System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for Teamwork 
Deborah Walter: Collaborative Research: Center for Mobile Hands-on STEM 
Rich House: Development and Application of the Sustainability Skills and Dispositions Scale to the Wicked Problems in Sustainability Initiative 
Mario Simoni: Improving Learning in Continuous-Time Signals and Systems Courses Through Collaborative Workshops 
Patrick Cunningham: Reflecting on Reflection: How Educators Experience the Opportunity to Talk About Supporting Student Reflection

Check out the full list of 2014 CPSE-related papers by Rose-Hulman faculty.

Ella Ingram

Dr. Ingram is the Director of the Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education. She is also an Associate Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering at Rose-Hulman. Dr. Ingram has taught at Rose-Hulman since 2004. Her teaching responsibilities include introductory and advanced ecology and evolution, non-majors courses in biology, and the senior thesis sequence. Prior to joining Rose-Hulman, Ella taught at Indiana University, where she also earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolution with a certification in college teaching.

Ella Ingram