Research Projects
Collaborative Learner-constructed Engineering-concept Articulation and Representation (CLEAR)
| Funding Agency: | National Science Foundation, Grant Award #0530708 |
| Principal Investigators: | Denny Davis, Todd Johnson, Christopher Hundhausen, Gerald Maring, Reid Miller |
| Description: | The goal of this project is to implement engineering instructional practices that markedly increase retention, success, and satisfaction of diverse student populations across an engineering college. A CLEAR model will be initiated in "gateway" classes and then in core engineering classes to significantly improve learning, social development, and engineering cultural identity for students. |
| Period: | 2005 - 2006 |
| Funding: | $100,000 |
NSF Culturally-Relevant Engineering Applications in Mathematics (CREAM)
| Funding Agency: | National Science Foundation, Grant Award #0538652 |
| Principal Investigators: | Denny Davis, Todd Johnson, Christopher Hundhausen, Gerald Maring, Reid Miller |
| Description: | This project uses culturally-relevant engineering applications in mathematics (CREAM) to energize graduate students, K-12 teachers and students, and university faculty to reform mathematics education and heighten engineering career aspirations. |
| Period: | 2006 - 2009 |
| Funding: | $1,500,000 |
NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships
| Funding Agency: | National Science Foundation |
| Principal Investigators: | Robert Olsen, Mary Sanchez-Lanier, and Marja Schlosser |
| Description: | The goal of the CSEMS program is to, “support scholarships for academically talented, but financially needy students, enabling them to enter the high-technology workforce following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate-level degree in computer science, computer technology, engineering, engineering technology, or mathematics” |
| Period: | 2004 - 2008 |
| Funding: | $400,000 |
The Northwest Talent Expansion Program (NW-ETEP)
| Funding Agency: | National Science Foundation |
| Principal Investigators: | Robert Olsen and Chen-Ching Liu |
| Description: | The main goal of the program is to increase by 10% over the next five years the total number of students in the State of Washington that earn an undergraduate engineering degree. |
| Period: | 2004 - 2009 |
| Funding: | $175,000 |
NSF Transferable Assessments for Capstone Engineering Design
| Funding Agency: | NSF/ Assessment of Student Achievement in Undergraduate
Engineering Education (ASA) program, Grant Award #0404924 |
| Principal Investigator: | Denny Davis |
| Description: | This project draws from engineering design cognitive research to develop effective assessments for capstone engineering design courses. Three assessments will be developed, tested at multiple institutions, and distributed widely for use across diverse institutions and engineering programs. |
| Collaborators: | Denny Davis (Engineering), Michael Trevisan (Assessment and Evaluation), Steven Beyerlein (University of Idaho), Kunle Harrison (Tuskegee University), and Phillip Thompson (Seattle University). |
| Period: | 2004 - 2007 |
| Funding: | $500,000 total |
University Funded Projects
NSF Transferable Assessments for Capstone Engineering Design
| Funding Agency: | Washington State University Office of Undergraduate Education and the College of Engineering and Architecture |
| Principal Investigator: | Shane Brown |
| Description: | The goal of this project is to implement and conduct further evaluation and improvement of a Science Engineering and Mathematics Living Learning Community (SEMLLC) for freshman with the goal of retaining students in engineering. The SEMLLC will be based on the living-learning community for engineering freshman. |
| Collaborators: | Shane Brown (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Denny Davis (BioEngineering), Kip Findley (Mechanical and Materials Engineering), Jenni Light (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Todd Vanek (Center for Teaching Learning and Technology) |
| Period: | 2005 - 2006 |
| Funding: | $18,400 |
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