REU Site Program in Engineering Education
Utah State University

About This Program

This ten-week summer program provides undergraduate students in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) discipline with intensive experience in engineering education research, such as how learners' experience, background, and perception play a role when they learn engineering knowledge and skills. The program provides Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and is not an internship. The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and hosted by Utah State University (USU) in Logan, Utah, a beautiful city nestled between two mountain ranges.

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Education Research

Learn how students' experience, background, and perception play a role in their education.

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Great Mentoring

You'll work closely with, at least, two mentors who are experts in the educational research.

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People

Learn how people (and you) self-regulate themselves to deal with everyday and academic challenges.

Products

  • (Under Review) I. Villanueva, B. Campbell, and S. Jones. (2016) Puzzling the Pieces: Using heuristic cues for engineering student design idea generation. American Educational Research Association.
  • Fang, N., Lawanto, O., Villanueva, I., Goodridge, W., & Becker, K. (2016). A Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site Program on Engineering Education Research. International Journal of Engineering Education, 32(5), pp. 1836-1846.
  • Fang, N., Lawanto, O., Goodridge, W., & Villanueva, I. (2016). Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) on Self-Regulated Learning in Engineering Education. In ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Annual Conference, Erie, PA.
  • Fang, N., Lawanto, O., Goodridge, W., & Villanueva, I. (2016). Self-Regulated Learning in Engineering Education: A Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site Program. In American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
  • Nahar, N., Call, B., Goodridge, W.H., and DeVitry, J. (2016). Creativity Enhancement via Engineering Graphics: Conceptual Design Blending Approach. In 123rd Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, New Orleans, LA. 10.18260/p.26594
  • B. Fronhofer received the first Prize in Math and Science Education Oral Presentation Category at the 2016 Emerging Researchers Conference, Washington, D.C. Read more at http://new.emerging-researchers.org/winners/ .
  • B. Fronhofer, S. Schott, I. Villanueva, and M. Valladares. (2016). Design Heuristics: A Qualitative Research Study in Engineering Education. In 2016 Emerging Researchers Conference, Washington, D.C.
  • Bell, S., Goodridge, W. H., Call, B., & DeVitry, J. (2016). A New Instructional Technique within Engineering Graphics Education, and Its Effect on Spatial Ability. In 2016 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA). Washington, DC, USA.
  • Fang, N., Lawanto, O., & Becker, K. (2015). A REU-Site Program for Engineering Education Research on Self-Regulated Learning. Seattle, WA: American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference.
  • C. Ortiz received the 2014 SACNAS Student Presentation Awards. Read more at http://sacnas.org/about/how-we-work/honors/2014/presentations .
  • Ortiz, C., Pham, B., Lawanto, O., & Febrian, A. (2014). Developing a Survey Instrument to Measure Problem Perception, Task Interpretation, and Planning Strategies within Self – Regulated Learning, a Work in Progress. In 2014 SACNAS National Conference. Los Angeles, California, USA.

Contacts

Oenardi Lawanto

Oenardi Lawanto, PhD (olawanto@usu.edu)

Ning Fang

Ning Fang, PhD (ning.fang@usu.edu)

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NSF Award # 1262806