School of Engineering Education Seminars
During the fall and spring semesters, the School of Engineering Education (ENE) hosts a weekly research seminar from 3:30-4:20 p.m. most Thursdays. These seminars provide the engineering education community a chance to get together to talk about new ideas, share successes and new research, and support developing research. Please join us! We welcome graduate and undergraduate students, staff, and faculty from across the university with an interest in educating engineers.
Please contact Şenay Purzer, Associate Head of ENE Graduate Programs and Professor of Engineering Education, with any questions or to recommend future speakers.
Upcoming Events
April 24, 2025
Northwestern University Assistant Professor of Instruction Chamille Lescott takes a look at two recent studies that used a design-thinking, student-centered approach to restructuring assignments, support systems, and pedagogical interventions.
Past Events
April 17, 2025
University of Notre Dame Assistant Teaching Professor Alexi Orchard introduces the framework of responsible anticipation (i.e. anticipating the social acceptability and technical functionality of an emerging technology), and discuss examples of how science and technology studies and engineering ethics educators have integrated the framework into engineering, data science, and cross-disciplinary technology courses and workshops.
April 3, 2025
ENE Ph.D. Candidate Adrian Nat Gentry talks about a comparative case study performed to assess undergraduate engineering students' access to professional skills opportunities through the Integrated Engineering Programme at University College London.
March 27, 2025
Ohio State Assistant Professor of Practice Zahra Atiq will present case studies illustrating how a multi-modal approach to education research has been employed to analyze the cognitive, emotional, and motivational factors that influence novice programmers' learning processes; then highlight the challenges with implementing the methodologies.
March 13, 2025
Purdue librarians Kelly Burns, Kevin Wiggins, and Nina Collins will present an hour-long, virtual (ZOOM) workshop on the changing landscape of scholarly publishing and how it impacts scholarship.
March 6, 2025
As part of the Graduate Student Seminar Exchange Program, University of Cincinnati Ph.D. Candidate Sukeerti Shandliya will break down her mixed-methods study aimed at better understanding the nature and extent of transformative learning within various experiential programs in engineering formation.
February 27, 2025
Catherine Berdanier, a Penn State associate professor of mechanical engineering, will talk about research on doctoral and graduate student success and the factors that impact attrition, including lack of "socialization" into the program as well as "invisible" competencies that impact persistence and career trajectories.
February 20, 2025
Dr. Felicity McLure from Charles Darwin University in Australia talks about a survey of middle school students there that revealed stereotypical views as to who engages with STEM careers. A subsequent wearable electronics project helped change attitudes. *This is a ZOOM-only seminar
February 13, 2025
Dr. Grant Fore with Indiana University Indianapolis will explore the importance of virtue ethics within engineering education and outline the foundational logic of science as a care practice.
February 6, 2025
Primary and secondary schools in the Netherlands have been legally required to promote active citizenship and social integration since 2006, with little guidance. Assistant Professor Duru Bayram from Eindhoven University of Technology talks about approaches to citizenship education there, relevant policy regulations, and how integrating socio-scientific issues into science lessons can enhance citizenship learning.
January 23, 2025
Benjamin Manning, a student pursuing his Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Purdue, will talk about ways to use the educational tool of reverse engineering to bridge theoretical concepts and practical applications to enhance student confidence and interest in ECE.
