Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Welcome Picnic (September 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98039 98039-21795508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Join us to celebrate the beginning of a new school year for a Welcome Back to campus picnic at the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering building.

Games! Giveaways! Prizes! We'll even be raffling off some football tickets. Must be present to win.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:16:26 -0400 2022-09-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-06T13:30:00-04:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Social / Informal Gathering NAME Welcome Picnic
What are PRONOUNS - Welcome picnic for international grad students in engineering (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97217 97217-21794152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
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Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Join us on North Campus to learn PRONOUNS, play activities, win prizes, make new friends and enjoy a free lunch!

Are you ready for the new semester? We prepared a welcome picnic for you. Each participant will receive some swag and a free lunch! By attending this event, you will know more about Pronouns and meet new people. Please come to join us and share the event with your friends.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:27:40 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Pronoun Event
Marine Hydrodynamics Lab Open House (September 15, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96778 96778-21793288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 1:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Don't declare your major without considering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering.

NAME graduates have a 95% job/internship placement.

Stop by any time to meet other NAME students, staff and faculty and to learn more about the marine industry, the NAME program and how you can fit into it. We’ll have food, live demos, tow tank rides, and swag.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:17:09 -0400 2022-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Reception / Open House West Hall
Celebrate Invention (October 13, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98346 98346-21796522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Innovation Partnerships

Celebrate University of Michigan inventors and the growing impact of U-M innovations!

Don’t miss this year’s annual Celebrate Invention highlighting demonstrations from promising U-M startups, networking opportunities at the ecosystem fair, panel discussions featuring prominent inventors and alumni, and the presentation of the Distinguished University Innovator of the Year Award.

Thursday, October 13
1:00–6:00pm
Michigan Union, 2nd Floor
530 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Part of Ann Arbor SPARK's a2Tech360, Celebrate Invention is free and open to the public. Register today at *https://myumi.ch/DJNbM!*

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1:00–3:00pm: Panel Sessions & Ecosystem Fair

3:00–6:00pm: Reception, Rogel Ballroom, Michigan Union, 2nd Floor

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Reception / Open House Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:06:20 -0400 2022-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Innovation Partnerships Reception / Open House Image of the Celebrate Invention logo on a blue background.
Telling half a story: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Culturally Relevant Engineering Education in Nigeria and the United States (October 21, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/99928 99928-21798898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In 2021, the United States maintained its reputation as a destination of choice for international students around the globe. More than 80% of them are pursuing advanced degrees in STEM (Institute of International Education, 2021). Unfortunately, many of these international students come in only to experience loneliness, social disconnectedness, and a crisis of identity the longer they stay in their respective programs. The commitment to diversify and attract international students to US institutions must be followed by a clear understanding of what it takes to support these students. Among the myriad of international students that enter the US for higher education every year, I am particularly interested in the experiences of African international students. Is their performance in US higher education exclusively tied to their educational backgrounds or does it stem from a motivation to succeed in a different environment despite the odds? What might we learn about how engineering is taught in their home countries? In this study, I attempt to address these questions by designing a comparative case study using mixed methods, theoretically informed by culturally relevant pedagogy surrounding two contexts. This study poses the question of culture as an integral intrinsic aspect of learning, leveraging a socio-psychological framework to help understand how students receive support from their instructors to excel in engineering. In this presentation, I discuss emerging results of my studies investigating culturally relevant engineering education in Nigeria.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:17:58 -0400 2022-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T10:15:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Moses Olayemi
Integrative Systems + Design Open House (October 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100064 100064-21799047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 11:00am
Location: School of Information North
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us for the 2022 Integrative Systems + Design (ISD) Open House on Wednesday, October 26 at 11-12:30 PM. You will get to talk with our graduate coordinators, program directors and faculty, as well as current students. This is a great opportunity to visit the University of Michigan’s North Campus where the ISD lives and get to learn more about the opportunities within our six unique graduate degree programs.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 11 Oct 2022 07:31:04 -0400 2022-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-26T12:30:00-04:00 School of Information North Integrative Systems + Design Reception / Open House Open House
Graduate Studies in Computational & Data Sciences Information Session (October 26, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100680 100680-21800224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

The educational programs represented are:
- PhD in Scientific Computing (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Data Science (MIDAS)

These programs are open to all U-M graduate students with an interest in scientific computing or data science. These methodologies can have a wide range of applications - current and past students have come from a variety of home departments including Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics, Biostatistics, Biomedical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems, Information, Industrial & Operations Engineering, Kinesiology, Linguistics, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Math, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Environment and Sustainability, Sociology and Statistics.

If you have any questions about these programs or about the information session, please reach out to MICDE (micde-contact@umich.edu) or MIDAS (midas-contact@umich.edu).

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Presentation Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:46:55 -0400 2022-10-26T13:30:00-04:00 2022-10-26T14:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Presentation MICDE/MIDAS Information Session - PhD in Scientific Computing (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Data Science (MIDAS)
Graduate Studies in Computational & Data Sciences Information Session (November 2, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100680 100680-21800225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 1:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

The educational programs represented are:
- PhD in Scientific Computing (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience (MICDE)
- Graduate Certificate in Data Science (MIDAS)

These programs are open to all U-M graduate students with an interest in scientific computing or data science. These methodologies can have a wide range of applications - current and past students have come from a variety of home departments including Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics, Biostatistics, Biomedical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems, Information, Industrial & Operations Engineering, Kinesiology, Linguistics, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Math, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Environment and Sustainability, Sociology and Statistics.

If you have any questions about these programs or about the information session, please reach out to MICDE (micde-contact@umich.edu) or MIDAS (midas-contact@umich.edu).

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Presentation Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:46:55 -0400 2022-11-02T13:30:00-04:00 2022-11-02T14:30:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Presentation MICDE/MIDAS Information Session - PhD in Scientific Computing (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience (MICDE) - Graduate Certificate in Data Science (MIDAS)
EER Prospective Student Open House (November 3, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100092 100092-21799200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 6:00pm
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Organized By: Engineering Education Research

We are excited to invite all interested students to attend an open house to learn about the UM’s graduate program in Engineering Education Research (EER). UM’s EER program represents a unique, interdisciplinary model: EER Ph.D. students (who enjoy a full funding package) are part of a college-wide program, while several tenure-line EER faculty are embedded within the traditional engineering departments. The integrated nature of the program allows the EER faculty and their research groups to be well-integrated with the traditional engineering disciplines, and it provides students a better opportunity to engage in innovative research and make scholarly contributions to the engineering education community. More information about the program is available at our EER website (https://eer.engin.umich.edu/). We will be hosting a Hybrid Open House on Thursday and Friday, 11/03/22 and 11/04/22. Students from all institutions are invited to attend, whether in-person or by Zoom (a zoom link will be emailed prior to the program). Participants will hear about the EER graduate program, meet faculty and graduate students, tour the beautiful University of Michigan campus, and learn about career opportunities as an UM graduate in this field. For participants who travel within the U.S., a limited number of travel grants are available to offset the costs of traveling to Ann Arbor, so please register soon. Note that we highly encourage applicants to the EER graduate program to have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in a traditional engineering discipline. Please register to attend at this open house registration site (tinyurl.com/2022EERUM) and please forward this link to any friends who may be interested. Email us for more information at eerprogram@umich.edu

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Reception / Open House Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:17:35 -0400 2022-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T20:00:00-04:00 Engineering Education Research Reception / Open House Engineering Education Research
EER Prospective Student Open House (November 4, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100092 100092-21799201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 9:00am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

We are excited to invite all interested students to attend an open house to learn about the UM’s graduate program in Engineering Education Research (EER). UM’s EER program represents a unique, interdisciplinary model: EER Ph.D. students (who enjoy a full funding package) are part of a college-wide program, while several tenure-line EER faculty are embedded within the traditional engineering departments. The integrated nature of the program allows the EER faculty and their research groups to be well-integrated with the traditional engineering disciplines, and it provides students a better opportunity to engage in innovative research and make scholarly contributions to the engineering education community. More information about the program is available at our EER website (https://eer.engin.umich.edu/). We will be hosting a Hybrid Open House on Thursday and Friday, 11/03/22 and 11/04/22. Students from all institutions are invited to attend, whether in-person or by Zoom (a zoom link will be emailed prior to the program). Participants will hear about the EER graduate program, meet faculty and graduate students, tour the beautiful University of Michigan campus, and learn about career opportunities as an UM graduate in this field. For participants who travel within the U.S., a limited number of travel grants are available to offset the costs of traveling to Ann Arbor, so please register soon. Note that we highly encourage applicants to the EER graduate program to have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in a traditional engineering discipline. Please register to attend at this open house registration site (tinyurl.com/2022EERUM) and please forward this link to any friends who may be interested. Email us for more information at eerprogram@umich.edu

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Reception / Open House Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:17:35 -0400 2022-11-04T09:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T15:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Engineering Education Research Reception / Open House Engineering Education Research
Building the Whole Black Child: Facilitating Engineering with Respect to Culture (November 18, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101152 101152-21800879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 9:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Engineering education intentionally excludes and pushes out learners who do not uphold traditional Eurocentric standards for thinking and practice of the profession. Facilitators who uphold such standards gatekeep the discipline and perpetuate the marginalization of racially and ethnically diverse youth when they do not orient the learners’ cultures in their teaching and practices. Oftentimes, to obtain academic and professional achievement, facilitators encourage Black youth seeking entry into the engineering pathway to suppress their culture, linguistic literacy and practice, and history. Given the educational debt that persists in K-12 education for Black American youth, meaningful culturally oriented facilitation is crucial as it often determines whether a learner may persist or perish along their engineering pursuit. Most importantly, the culturally informed engineering facilitator has the power to extract the brilliance and ingenuity that Black youth bring into the engineering classroom. In this talk, I discuss the significance of a culturally centered engineering facilitator on Black American youth’s engineering learning. Founded on asset-focused culturally relevant and sustaining frameworks, I explain how the ethos, beliefs, and training of a multifaceted facilitator influenced engineering learning and practice for Black youth at an interdisciplinary summer camp within an urban creative arts community learning center— Hit Makers Summer Camp. I also detail how culturally relevant and sustaining facilitation guided Black youth to rationalize their place in engineering. Finally, I discuss implications for educational research, teaching, and professional development for engineering educators and initial steps on how the Engineering Education Research community could implement initial policies that maximize cultural prosperity to contribute to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in engineering education.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:53:58 -0500 2022-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T10:15:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Tikyna Dandridge
Building the Whole Black Child: Facilitating Engineering with Respect to Culture (November 18, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101152 101152-21800881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Engineering education intentionally excludes and pushes out learners who do not uphold traditional Eurocentric standards for thinking and practice of the profession. Facilitators who uphold such standards gatekeep the discipline and perpetuate the marginalization of racially and ethnically diverse youth when they do not orient the learners’ cultures in their teaching and practices. Oftentimes, to obtain academic and professional achievement, facilitators encourage Black youth seeking entry into the engineering pathway to suppress their culture, linguistic literacy and practice, and history. Given the educational debt that persists in K-12 education for Black American youth, meaningful culturally oriented facilitation is crucial as it often determines whether a learner may persist or perish along their engineering pursuit. Most importantly, the culturally informed engineering facilitator has the power to extract the brilliance and ingenuity that Black youth bring into the engineering classroom. In this talk, I discuss the significance of a culturally centered engineering facilitator on Black American youth’s engineering learning. Founded on asset-focused culturally relevant and sustaining frameworks, I explain how the ethos, beliefs, and training of a multifaceted facilitator influenced engineering learning and practice for Black youth at an interdisciplinary summer camp within an urban creative arts community learning center— Hit Makers Summer Camp. I also detail how culturally relevant and sustaining facilitation guided Black youth to rationalize their place in engineering. Finally, I discuss implications for educational research, teaching, and professional development for engineering educators and initial steps on how the Engineering Education Research community could implement initial policies that maximize cultural prosperity to contribute to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in engineering education.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:53:58 -0500 2022-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T10:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Tikyna Dandridge
Educating Ethical Engineers (January 24, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103233 103233-21806517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In today’s society, the need to graduate engineers who are conscious of their ethical and professional responsibilities is more important than ever. This is especially difficult given the current media environment that publicizes reports of algorithmic bias, drone-based surveillance, and emissions falsification (among other issues) but provides few positive role models for students. While engineering programs have made significant strides to incorporate ethics instruction into the engineering curriculum, there is little evidence about which approaches best prepare students to address the ethical challenges they will face in the workforce. In this session, Dr. Finelli will present research about the state of undergraduate ethics instruction and it’s long term impact, propose a new approach to ethics instruction, and offer two course-based approaches to better educate ethical engineers.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:25:15 -0500 2023-01-24T10:30:00-05:00 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Cynthia Finelli
Educating Ethical Engineers (January 24, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103233 103233-21806518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In today’s society, the need to graduate engineers who are conscious of their ethical and professional responsibilities is more important than ever. This is especially difficult given the current media environment that publicizes reports of algorithmic bias, drone-based surveillance, and emissions falsification (among other issues) but provides few positive role models for students. While engineering programs have made significant strides to incorporate ethics instruction into the engineering curriculum, there is little evidence about which approaches best prepare students to address the ethical challenges they will face in the workforce. In this session, Dr. Finelli will present research about the state of undergraduate ethics instruction and it’s long term impact, propose a new approach to ethics instruction, and offer two course-based approaches to better educate ethical engineers.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:25:15 -0500 2023-01-24T10:30:00-05:00 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Cynthia Finelli
MICDE Ph.D. Student Seminar: Alex Hrabski (January 26, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103940 103940-21808127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Topic: *Investigations of Wave Turbulence in Bounded Domains*

Nonlinear wave systems are ubiquitous in nature, and when many incoherent dispersive waves interact, there is the potential for wave turbulence. Just as in hydrodynamic turbulence (HDT), systems in wave turbulence exhibit inter-scale energy cascades, power-law inertial-range spectra, and even intermittency. Unlike in HDT, however, a natural analytical closure for field statistics has been developed: spectral evolution in wave turbulence can be expressed as a Boltzmann-like kinetic equation. In this talk, we will numerically probe the interplay of nonlinear strength and domain size (critical quantities to the analytical closure) in determining the behaviors of wave turbulence in a model system. Our numerical experiments demonstrate that (a) domain aspect ratio plays a key role in spectral evolution when nonlinearity is weak, (b) that near-resonant interactions are important for the observation of kinetic behavior, and (c) evaluations of the energy cascade can be used to investigate the wave turbulence closure.

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Presentation Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:46:54 -0500 2023-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T16:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Presentation MICDE Ph.D. Seminar Series: Alex Hrabski
Taking Actions Toward Educational Change in Engineering Education (February 10, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104157 104157-21808511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

As engineering education scholars and engineering educators, many of us pursue educational change and innovation through our research, teaching, service, and leadership activities. In this pursuit, we take intentional and strategic actions towards educational change and innovation goals that matter to us, whether that is reimagining graduate admissions to be a more equitable and inclusive process or redesigning how students are introduced to the ideas of heat and temperature in a foundational engineering course. Our actions towards these goals represent our professional agency towards educational change.

The focus of this talk will be to explore the question of How might we empower and enable faculty to engage in educational change at their institutions? To support this exploration, I will introduce a contextualized theory for professional agency towards educational change that was developed based on a longitudinal and collaborative qualitative study of six early career engineering education scholars. The theory has since been used to examine the actions and experiences of engineering instructional faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Using both studies as examples, we will consider our own experiences pursuing change efforts through this lens and begin to imagine how we might further promote this type of professional agency within our communities.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:48:22 -0500 2023-02-10T10:30:00-05:00 2023-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong
Developing Teacher Empathy – A Journey of Three Engineering Faculty Members Implementing Empathetic Actions in their Classroom (March 7, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105424 105424-21811742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 10:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In higher education, teacher empathy is a term that refers to the empathetic skills of teachers and has been researched since the 1980s. Multiple studies in fields such as medicine, nursing and psychology have shown that teacher empathy has reduced teacher burnout, improved teacher satisfaction and student performance. Within engineering education, there is increased research on empathy in recent years, but primarily aimed at introducing and improving empathetic skills of engineering students. There is very little research on teacher empathy within engineering education. In my current study, I explored the potential changes in perception of teacher empathy among three engineering faculty members as they utilized empathetic actions while teaching a second-year engineering course. I also explored the motivations and challenges that could arise in teacher empathy implementation. The outcome of this study could be used by faculty development programs, department heads and university deans to expand the implementation of teacher empathy within a college or university.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:19:05 -0500 2023-03-07T10:30:00-05:00 2023-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Bala Vignesh Sundaram
Starting With Self, Then Towards Others: How Students Engage With Empathy in Community-Based Learning (March 21, 2023 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106180 106180-21813895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

This seminar contributes to a recent movement in engineering education, calling attention to fostering more engineering students to develop social awareness to solve complex problems in the real world. As many engineering problems raised in a community can be related to addressing social issues, community-based learning (CBL) has become a way to educate more empathic engineers. However, there is an ethical consideration in CBL as the outcome of student learning can impact a real-world community partner. Therefore, it is critical to understand how students engage with empathy in CBL to commit to the community’s needs authentically before implementation.

In this seminar, I will share some qualitative findings from my dissertation study focusing on how students shift between the roles of “self” and “others” in the process of engaging with empathy in CBL. I also investigated different types of opportunities to expose students to empathy in CBL, such as structural opportunities (how the CBL activity is organized), social opportunities (how students are guided to work with others), and reflective opportunities (how students think about what they have learned). The seminar concludes with practical recommendations for engineering educators to understand how to support students to engage with empathy in community-based learning contexts.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:46:25 -0400 2023-03-21T10:30:00-04:00 2023-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Linjue (Jade) Wang
The 2023 Captain Ralph R. & Florence Peachman Lecture (April 13, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107380 107380-21815931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Dr. Kirsi Tikka has significant shipping and offshore industry experience. For almost 20 years she held several leadership roles at the American Bureau of Shipping. She led efforts in a variety of important regulatory and forward-looking technical topics including sustainability and setting the course for a low-carbon shipping future. Prior to joining ABS, she had a combined industry and academic background as a professor of Naval Architecture at Webb Institute in New York and working for Chevron Shipping Company in San Francisco, as well as Wärtsilä Shipyards in Finland. She is currently an independent director on shipping and technology company boards. She is actively involved in environmental and sustainability projects. She recently chaired the Committee on Oil in the Water IV: Inputs, Fates, and Effects for the US National Academies, and she was an advisor to the Maritime transitions project which launched a report Practical Playbook for Maritime Decarbonization during the UN Oceans Conference in June 2022.

Dr. Tikka holds a Doctorate in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture from the University of Technology in Helsinki. She is a Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. In 2012, she received SNAME’s David W. Taylor Medal, and in 2019 she received the Seatrade Award: Integration of Women in Maritime Sector. She has an honorary doctorate from Webb Institute, and she is Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. She serves on the UC Berkeley Engineering Advisory Board and on the Board of Trustees of Webb Institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:44:28 -0400 2023-04-13T16:30:00-04:00 2023-04-13T17:30:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Colorful shipping containers
Dean Gallimore's End of Year Address and Q&A (April 13, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107179 107179-21815593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 5:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Black Students in Aerospace

Black Students in Aerospace (BSA), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and the Latinos/Hispanics United in Aerospace (LUNA) organizations are hosting an end-of-semester talk with the outgoing Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, Dr. Alec Gallimore, on Thursday, April 13th from 6-7 PM in GG Brown Room 2505. This talk will consist of an address by Dean Gallimore, followed by a moderated question and answer session with live audience questions at the end, if time permits. The event focuses on the personal and career experiences of the Dean, his perspectives on how the Black engineering experience at the university can be improved by the College of Engineering’s DEI strategic plan, how student organizations can be better supported and uplifted, and more.

Please fill out the attached RSVP form to register for the event and submit any questions to be asked in the moderated Q&A portion (questions accepted until Thursday, April 6th at 12 PM). Refreshments will be served at 5:30PM, and the event will begin promptly at 6PM. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/hsj8EWhGjhsUpB1R9

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Presentation Thu, 06 Apr 2023 01:45:44 -0400 2023-04-13T17:30:00-04:00 2023-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Black Students in Aerospace Presentation Flyer with event details and description
The Design and Implementation of the Illinois Express Quantum Metropolitan Area Network (June 22, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108778 108778-21820381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 22, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Arbor Lakes
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join Information and Technology Services (ITS) in welcoming Joaquin Chung to campus for a presentation on Quantum Networking, cutting-edge research, and one of the future technologies in campus network computing. This will be a very technical presentation geared for researchers and technologists.

Chung is a research scientist at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory who is working on the Illinois Express Quantum Metropolitan Area Network (IE QMAN). The IE QMAN is a functioning test bed that supports the transmission of quantum network traffic over existing dark fiber networks. This talk will describe details around the network control and physics involved in quantum data transmission.

Special Invitation:
Joaquin Chung will be available to chat with U-M researchers Thursday and Friday mornings during his time in Ann Arbor. If you would like to schedule a meeting with him, email T. Charles Yun (tcyun@umich.edu) to schedule an appointment.

Joaquin Chung is a postdoctoral appointee at the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received both his B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (2007) and his M.Sc. in Communication Systems Engineering with Emphasis in Data Networks (2013) from University of Panama, Panama. He received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Henry Owen and Dr. Russ Clark at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in December 2017. He is a Fulbright alumni, an IEEE member, and an ACM member. His research interests include software-defined networking, software-defined exchanges, cyber-infrastructure orchestration, edge computing, network security, and quantum communication networks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:50:23 -0400 2023-06-22T14:00:00-04:00 2023-06-22T15:00:00-04:00 Arbor Lakes Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Joaquin Chung, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory