PEER Events & News

RIEF Virtual Community of Practice

• "When Things Go Wrong" networking session - Session A: April 3, 2025 @ 1:30pm EDT; Session B: April 14, 2025 @ 2pm EDT

Attendees are encouraged to bring questions and concerns related to their work in RIEF and engineering education research (EER) projects. Our expert facilitator (Dr. Karen High, Clemson University) will help us quickly identify commonalities in your questions/concerns and then encourage attendees to self-sort into breakout rooms based on common interests. 

Some suggested topic ideas so far include: 

• 1. 1. 1. 1. How to frame programmatic vs. fundamental EER research

           2. How do I situate my EER work for a certain journal

           3. Dealing with funding uncertainty

           4. IRB questions

           5. Difficulties recruiting for EER studies

Do you have something pressing you'd like to discuss with other VCoP members? Let us know in your RSVP! The focus of these networking sessions is YOU, our wonderful community members, getting to know one another better, building connections, and helping each other brainstorm solutions to shared problems you're facing in your RIEF or EER work (big or small). We are offering this event twice, in the hopes that as many interested community members as possible can attend. We'd love for you to attend one or both - whatever works best for your schedule!

• "Tips & Tricks to Navigating the IRB Process" - Panel Session A: November 4, 2024 @ 1:30pm EST; Session B: November 7, 2024 @ 2:30pm EST

This session will focus on sharing tips & tricks to navigate the IRB process for your engineering education projects and handling IRBs across multi-institutional projects.

Our expert panelists are fellow RIEF community members who have extensive experience navigating IRBs across schools: 

• 1. 1. 1. 1. Dr. Rachel Kajfez, The Ohio State University

           2. Dr. Courtney Faber, University at Buffalo

• "Office Hours" Panel - Session A: October 9, 2024 @3pm EDT; Session B: October 10, 2024 @ 12pm EDT

Feel like you've run into a roadblock with your RIEF project or need some advice on the next steps forward? We're happy to help you brainstorm solutions! This session will focus on attendees bringing questions and concerns about their RIEF projects and working out solutions with other attendees and the panelists (fellow RIEF mentors/mentees). 

Our panelists will be the RIEF VCoP leadership, including:

• 1. 1. 1. 1. Dr. Julie Martin, University of Georgia

           2. Dr. Karin Jensen, University of Michigan

           3. Dr. Sindia Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

• "Publishing Engineering Education Research" Panel - Session A: May 23, 2024 @ 4pm EST;  Session B: May 24 @ 1:30pm EST

We are hosting two "Publishing Engineering Education Research" panels in late May that focus on sharing tips and tricks on getting your engineering education research (EER) work published and navigating that process. 

Our all-star panelists represent members of the editorial boards of several major EER journals, such as Advances in Engineering Education (AEE), Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), and Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (JWM). 

Our "Publishing in EER" panelists include:

• 1. 1. 1. 1. Dr. Mayra Artiles (associate editor of AEE)

           2. Dr. Renee Clark (associate editor of AEE)

           3. Dr. Alex Mejia (associate editor of JEE and JWM)

           4. Dr. Walt Lee (associate editor of JEE and JWM)

We are offering this hour-long panel twice, in the hopes that as many interested participants as possible can attend. The questions discussed in the panel will generally be the same for each session—we’d love for you to attend one or both. This time we're trying something different, to help us collect more questions for panelists in advance. 

• "Lessons Learned" Panel - Session A: April 1, 2024 @ 2pm EDT; Session B: April 4, 2024 @11am EDT

We are hosting two "Lessons Learned" panels in early April that focuses on current/past RIEF mentees and mentors sharing tips and tricks learned along the way in completing their RIEF projects and navigating the RIEF mentee-mentor relationship. We are offering this hour-long panel twice, in the hopes that as many interested participants as possible can attend. The questions discussed in the panel will generally be the same for each session—we’d love for you to attend one or both.

Our "Lessons Learned" panelists include: 

• 1. 1. 1. 1. Dr. Sarah Wilson (University of Kentucky, chemical engineering)

           2. Dr. Joseph Hammer (University of Kentucky, counseling psychology)

           3. Dr. Betsy Chesnutt (University of Tennessee Knoxville, engineering)

           4. Dr. Courtney Faber (University at Buffalo, engineering education)

• Kick-off Event  - Session A: November 27, 2023 @ 3pm EST; Session B: November 28, 2023 @ 12pm EST