1. The post-workshop community
Other Initiatives – AREE, etc.
Journal of Engineering Education
Expertise
NSF

2. Building Engineering Education Research Capabilities:
NSF Initiated Science and Engineering Education Scholars Program (SEESP)
NSF – Centers for Learning and Teaching (CLT)
Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE)
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL)
National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE)
NAE: Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE)
AREE: Annals of Research on Engineering Education
NSF-CCLI-ND: Rigorous Research in Engineering Education (RREE)
ASEE Idealog –

3. Annals of Research on Engineering Education (AREE)
Link journals related to engineering education
Increase progress toward shared consensus on quality research
Increase awareness and use of engineering education research
Increase discussion of research and its implications
Resources – community recommended
Annotated bibliography
Acronyms explained
Conferences, Professional Societies, etc.
Articles – education research
Structured summaries
Reflective essays
Reader comments

5. JEE Research Emphasis
The State of the Art and Practice of Engineering Education Research
January 2005
New form and format
Guest Editors
Richard M. Felder, NCSU Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford Karl A. Smith, U of Minnesota
Source: Jack Lohmann

6. Journals vary considerably
All Fields
(Current Volume)
Peer
Reviewed?
Society
Sponsored?
Research
Focus?
JEE (93)
YES
YES*
EJEE (29) No
IJEE (20)
WTE&TE (2)
JSMETE (3)
Focused (Discipline)
JPIEEP (CE)
CEE (ChE)
IEEE TE (EE)
INFORMS TE (OR)
IJCELLL (Cont. Ed.)
IJMEE (ME)
n/a
IJEEE (EE)
Source: Jack Lohmann
* JEE initiated a research focus January, 2003

7. What JEE expects Mission refined January, 2003 Ten review criteria
…to serve as an archival record of scholarly research in engineering education
Ten review criteria
Five focused on content and contribution
Five focused on composition and presentation
Source: Jack Lohmann

8. Content and contribution
Appeal to a broad readership interested in engineering education
Address important questions or propositions of lasting value
Build upon relevant references and bodies of knowledge
Employ appropriate educational or scientific principles and methodologies
Present original ideas or results supported by compelling evidence
Source: Jack Lohmann

9. Expertise Implies: a set of cognitive and metacognitive skills
an organized body of knowledge that is deep and contextualized
an ability to notice patterns of information in a new situation
flexibility in retrieving and applying that knowledge to a new problem
Bransford, Brown & Cocking How people learn. National Academy Press.

10. Acquisition of Expertise Fitts P, & Posner MI. Human Performance
Acquisition of Expertise Fitts P, & Posner MI. Human Performance. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1967.
Cognition: Learn from instruction or observation what knowledge and actions are appropriate
Associative: Practice (with feedback) allowing smooth and accurate performance
Automaticity: “Compilation” or performance and associative sequences so that they can be done without large amounts of cognitive resources
“The secret of expertise is that there is no secret. It takes at least 10 years of concentrated effort to develop expertise.” Herbert Simon

11. John Seely Brown. Growing up digital: The web and a new learning ecology. Change, March/April 2000.

12. Paradox of Expertise
The very knowledge we wish to teach others (as well as the knowledge we wish to represent in computer programs) often turns out to be the knowledge we are least able to talk about.