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Reconnecting with RED�

RED Panel Discussion:

Lessons Learned from the Experiences of RED Cohorts 1, 2, and 3

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March 28, 2022

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Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

  • Title: Professor and Department Head, Experiential Engineering Education
  • Project role: PI
  • RED project: Revolutionizing Engineering Diversity (2016)
  • Description of RED Project: This project uses a multipronged approach to revolutionize diversity, equity and inclusion in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rowan University.
  • Project website: https://research.rowan.edu/research-areas/engineering/reved/index.html

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Tonya Frevert, UNC Charlotte

  • Title: Research Assistant Professor
  • Project role: Post-doctoral fellow, Project Manager
  • RED project: The Connected Learner: Design Patterns for Transforming Computing and Informatics Education (2015)
  • Description of RED Project: The Connected Learner project was a re-orientation of undergraduate computing and informatics education focused on student learning that connected students to peers, profession, and purpose. The project vision was to transform the student entering an undergraduate computing and informatics program from a person with an interest in computing to a person with an identity as a computing professional.
  • Project website: https://sites.google.com/view/cci-center-for-education-innov/home

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Ann Gates, University of Texas at El Paso

  • Title: Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
  • Project role: PI
  • RED project: A Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science (2016)
  • Description of RED Project: The goal of the project is to transform teaching and learning in computer science with deep change in curriculum informed by industry and grounded in social consciousness, cultural competency, and practices influenced by our unique expertise and experiences as an Hispanic-Serving Institution. UTEP’s efforts has developed coherent technical and professional threads across the four years of its undergraduate program and has focused on inclusion of students and faculty to develop a climate of connectedness.
  • Project website: Computer Science RED Project (utep.edu)

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Susan Lord, University of San Diego

  • Title: Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering
  • Project role: co-PI, engineering ed expert
  • RED project: Developing Changemaking Engineers (2015)
  • Description of RED Project: This project aimed to envision engineering curricula and practice to value engineering as a sociotechnical endeavor. To accomplish this goal we developed curricula, a program to develop professional skills, and created partnerships with industry, students, and community.

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Tom Martin, Virginia Tech

  • Title: Professor ECE and Deputy Executive Director of the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
  • Project role: co-PI, PI
  • RED project: Radically Expanding Pathways in the Professional Formation of Engineers, Electrical and Computer Engineering (2016)
  • Description of RED Project: The vision of this project is to transform Virginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from a department with narrow curricular paths that attracts and produces a limited range of traditional engineers to one that draws and retains a wider pool of students and prepares them to be holistic "T-shaped" professionals for a broader range of careers.
  • Project website: https://icat.vt.edu/projects/red.html

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Annie Patrick, Georgia Tech & Virginia Tech

  • Title: Post-doctoral fellow
  • Project role: Post-doctoral fellow
  • RED project: Transforming for inclusion: fostering belonging and uniqueness in engineering education and practice (Biomedical Engineering) (Georgia Tech, 2017)
  • Description of RED Project: Our vision is to revolutionize engineering education to create engineers who are capable of realizing the inclusion dividend. We will achieve this vision by developing a model for the infusion of multi-scale inclusive practices that will be realized individually among students and faculty, through the work of a pedagogical incubator, translated into classroom practices, and informing overall departmental culture.

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Diane Rover, Iowa State University

  • Title: University Professor
  • Project role: Co-PI, project director, engineering ed expert
  • RED project: RIDE: Reinventing the Instructional and Departmental Enterprise to Advance the Professional Formation of Electrical and Computer Engineers (2016)
  • Description of RED Project: The RIDE team developed a cross-functional, team-based instructional model for course redesign; implemented strategies to advance engineering education research and research-based teaching; and investigated research questions to better understand and influence student development, faculty development, and department culture and climate.
  • Project website: https://ride.ece.iastate.edu