Engineering and Science Education

Allison Godwin, alumnus, awarded ASEE Best Paper in the Educational Research and Methods Division

Allison Godwin, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, was awarded the American Society for Engineering Education, Educational Research, and Methods Division Best Paper for the 2016 conference. Her paper titled, “The Development of a Measure of Engineering Identity,” described a stepwise process for developing an instrument to measure students engineering identity. In her […]

Researcher uses award to create WebMD of academic advising

Paul Alongi, College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences Originally posted in the Newsstand October 4, 2016 One of Clemson University’s newest faculty members is working to develop an online dashboard that could become the WebMD of academic advising, helping students make the crucial decisions that can mean the difference between dropping out and graduating. […]

Gallagher and Colleagues Win Best Paper in the Mathematics Division at ASEE

Dr. Eliza Gallagher, Dr. Lisa Benson, and Dr. Geoffrey Potvin were awarded Best Paper in the Mathematics Division for their paper “The Use of Case Studies in Preparing First-Year Mathematics Graduate Students,” presented at the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education annual conference and exposition in New Orleans, LA.  They will formally receive the award […]

Julie Martin honored for going ‘above and beyond’ for students

Paul Alungi, College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences Julie Martin, associate professor in the Department of Engineering and Science Education, is the winner of the 2016 Excellence in Mentoring Award from Graduate Student Government. The award provides encouragement for hard-working mentors who are making a difference at Clemson University. Martin was nominated by three […]

Gustavo Moran, PhD Candidate, Speaks at “Congreso Nacional de Ciencias Básicas 2016”

ESED Ph.D. candidate Gustavo Moran was invited as a speaker at the “Congreso Nacional de Ciencias Básicas 2016” (National Conference of Basic Sciences) held at the Instituto Tecnologico de Durango, México on May 26, 2016. Gustavo gave a 45 minute presentation, “Factors that could affect math learning,” to approximately 600 engineering students and professors at […]

McGough Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Catherine McGough, a graduate student in engineering and science education who is working with Dr. Lisa Benson, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF) for her proposed work on engineering student motivation and problem solving skills.   The NSF GRF program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines […]

Eliza Gallagher, PhD candidate, Wins NSF Travel Support Award

Eliza Gallagher, ESED PhD candidate and lecturer in Mathematical Sciences, won a Travel Support Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) to attend the NSF-CBMS Topological Data Analysis (TDA) Conference at University of Texas-Austin in June 2016. This competitive award will allow Eliza to develop skills […]

Allison Godwin, PhD Alum, Awarded NSF CAREER Grant

Allison Godwin, a 2014 graduate of the ESED PhD program and assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University, was named a recipient of the Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation. Allison’s research “Realizing Latent Diversity: Building Innovation through Engineering Students’ Identity Development” will use mixed methods to discover “the diversity […]

ESED Certificate Alum Awarded NSF CAREER Grant

Marisa Orr, alum of the Engineering and Science (ESED) Certificate program, and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, has been awarded an Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation.  Marisa will use the CAREER award to investigate practical and theoretical aspects of engineering students’ academic pathways.  In particular, […]

ESED Seminar with Dr. James Huff: Becoming engineers among other forms of self

Friday, January 22 @ 11:15 am – Rhodes Annex 109 Abstract: A growing body of engineering education research has attended to the formation of engineering identity, that is, the developmental processes by which a student becomes an engineer. Existing research has revealed much about how educational and workplace structures shape a shared sense of identity […]

Benson Wins Award for Workshop Presented at Engineering Education Conference

Dr. Lisa Benson, associate professor in engineering and science education, pictured first row second from the right, was recently honored with the Helen Plants Award for Best Nontraditional Session at FIE 2014, along with her collaborators, at the IEEE Frontiers in Education 2015 Conference. This award was established in 1980, and is intended to recognize […]

Fall 2015 Seminar Speaker Schedule

Below is the fall seminar speaker schedule. Abstracts and titles for each speaker will be posted with individual events closer to the date. ESED Seminars are held in 109 Rhodes Annex every Friday from 11:15-12:15. September 18: Matthew Boyer, School of Education, Clemson September 25: Nancy Healy, Georgia Tech October 9: Lynn Michaluk, West Virginia […]

ESED’s Julie Martin (co-PI) and Bioengineering’s Frank Alexis (PI) awarded International Research Experiences Grant

The National Science Foundation has awarded Dr. Frank Alexis (PI, Department of Bioengineering) and Dr. Julie Martin (co-PI, Department of Engineering and Science Education) a new International Research Experiences for Student (IRES) grant. The objective of this project is to develop globally-engaged science and engineering undergraduates. To achieve this goal, the grant will provide under-represented […]

ESED and IE Collaboration Claim Best Paper Award in ASEE IE Division

Congratulations to Justine Chasmar, Brian Melloy and Lisa Benson for winning the Best Paper Award in the Industrial Engineering Division at the 2015 ASEE Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, in June 2015. Their paper and presentation, “Use of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies by Second-Year Industrial Engineering Students,” was very well-received, and many people at the conference […]

Continuing to Unpack the Knapsack – SoCap Group Wins Diversity Award

Six member’s of Julie Martin’s SoCap Research Group were awarded the ASEE ERM Best Diversity Paper Award for their conference paper titled: “A Series of Singular Testimonies: A New Way to Explore Unearned Advantages and Unearned Disadvantages”. The SoCap group shared with the ASEE community a new interview method to illuminate visible and invisible forms […]