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Renee Clark

“Engineering Education Research: Reflecting on What Surrounds You”

Track: Collaborative Communication
Speakers: Renee Clark
Time: 11:00 - 11:20 am
Room: WPU 540

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We will interactively examine the notion of the “surroundings” in an engineering classroom. I posed an open-ended reflection question to engineering undergraduates at another large US university about their classroom surroundings and its impact on their learning and comprehension as part of a National Science Foundation engineering-education research study. Based on an analysis of the reflection data, I obtained an unexpected and interesting result for the most-frequently-mentioned positive classroom “surrounding.” I am wondering if Pitt engineering students (or prospective engineering students) feel the same thing about their classroom surroundings? In this interactive session, we will explore this idea together!

About Renee Clark

Dr. Renee Clark is Research Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of Assessment for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering. She conducts research on education studies that focus on active learning and engineering professional development. Current NSF-funded research includes the use of adaptive learning in the flipped classroom and systematic reflection and metacognitive activities in the engineering classroom. Dr. Clark teaches Statistical Testing for industrial engineering undergraduates. She also serves as Associate Editor for Advances in Engineering Education. She has 30 years of experience as an engineer and IT analyst in industry and academia. She completed her post-doctoral studies in engineering education at the University of Pittsburgh.