EdDiv August 2018 Announcements

Contents:
1. From the Chair: Upcoming Election & Bylaws Proposed Changes
2. Congratulations to EdDiv 2018 Award Winners!
3. EdDiv Programming Schedule at 2018 Annual Meeting
4. Call For Applicants: Academic Learning Specialist at Syracuse University
5. Call for Mentors: Future Faculty Mentoring Program
6. Call for Location Proposals: ASEE ChemE Summer School
7. Instructions for submitting EdDiv announcements
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1. FROM THE CHAIR: UPCOMING ELECTION & BYLAWS PROPOSED CHANGES
Our next Division election will proceed in the second half of August via a simple electronic ballot process. Keep an eye on your emails from AIChE. EdDiv will be electing a new Director. We will also be considering some changes to the Division bylaws. Details on the Director candidates and the bylaws changes will be coming in a couple of weeks.
- Matt Liberatore, Education Division Chair
matthew.liberatore@utoledo.edu
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2. CONGRATULATIONS TO ED-DIV 2018 AWARD WINNERS!
The Education Division’s awards committee is happy to announce the winners of three awards this year. The awards will be officially conferred at the Education Division dinner at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh.

Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Research (sponsored by Chemstations):
Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University
For his wide-spanning research on student learning, concept-based instruction and integrative technological tools in engineering, especially through the Concept Warehouse and virtual environments.

Award for Innovation in Chemical Engineering Education (sponsored by zyBooks):
Lucas Landherr, Northeastern University
For contributions to chemical engineering education through comics and animation to visualize and teach complex concepts.

Award for Service to Chemical Engineering Education:
Laura Ford, University of Tulsa
For dedicated service to chemical engineering teaching and learning and the local through national levels, from middle school open houses to ASEE Division Chair.
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3. ED-DIV PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE AT 2018 ANNUAL MEETING
The Education Division/Group 04 programming schedule for the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh is now available: see below or go to the EdDiv home page.
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<a href="/sites/default/files/community/aichecommunitysite/471151/2018eddivsessions.pdf" class=" document document-pdf" title="Education Division Programming Schedule - 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting">Education Division Programming Schedule - 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting</a>
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4. CALL FOR APPLICANTS: ACADEMIC LEARNING SPECIALIST AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
The Center for Learning and Student Success (CLASS) center at Syracuse University is hiring two Academic Learning Specialists responsible for developing, overseeing, and leading academic support services for students, including academic coaching, one-on-one and small-group tutoring, workshops and clinics. This work will involve: collaborating with the director and associate director to plan and design new academic support programs; providing direct academic support to SU students; designing and leading peer tutor & academic coach training that meets College Reading and Learning Association certification standards; and oversight of academic support programs. The Academic Learning Specialist will also work with the associate director on data collection, analysis, and academic research to assess academic support programs.

These positions may be of interest for recent chemical engineering MS or PhD graduates primarily interested in teaching and/or student support services, as an alternative post-graduate experience. The positions are permanent, but applicants seeking a 2-year term will also be considered. For more details, please visit the postings at https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/76018 and https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/76019. Syracuse University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution.

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5. CALL FOR MENTORS: FUTURE FACULTY MENTORING PROGRAM
The Education Division of AIChE sponsors the Future Faculty Mentoring Program, which seeks to pair late-career graduate students and post-docs who are seeking faculty positions with more senior faculty in Chemical Engineering departments.

Over the last several years, the program has grown in size and popularity, but we are currently mentor-limited! We would very much like to expand our pool of mentors for the upcoming 2018-2019 cohort, and are especially seeking female faculty mentors.

If you know of outstanding associate or full professors in your department (or NTT/Teaching Faculty of equivalent experience), please encourage them to consider being a mentor.

From the mentor perspective, the program entails being paired with 1-2 mentees, attending a kickoff meeting with them at the AIChE Annual Meeting (normally Sunday evening), meeting monthly with their mentee(s) (phone, Skype, virtually), and attending a virtual mid-year web conference to debrief the program. Our hope is that some of these relationships continue well beyond the formal one-year length of the program.

More details as well as the application instructions can be found at the Education Division Website:
https://www.aiche.org/community/sites/divisions-forums/education-divisio...

The mentor application is open now, and will close in early September. If there are any questions about the program, please feel free to contact Prof. Daniel Burkey at ddburkey@alum.mit.edu

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6. CALL FOR LOCATION PROPOSALS: ASEE CHEM-E SUMMER SCHOOL
The next ASEE Chemical Engineering Summer School for faculty will be held in the summer of 2021. Please consider putting forward your institution and department as a host for this important event. The Summer School prepares new faculty for a fast-start in research and instruction by providing workshops and resources in core chemical engineering topics, proposal writing, and pedagogy. The Summer School also provides an excellent networking opportunity for new faculty to meet and begin collaborations with other ChemEs across the country and around the world as well as to begin mentoring relationships with a wide array of senior faculty workshop facilitators. Hosting the Summer School provides an opportunity to showcase your department and institution. To apply, please complete the web form at https://goo.gl/forms/kfSq1DPSXjYa5pBs1. (note form questions are available to download through the link so that you may answer questions off-line before submitting).

For full consideration, please submit an application by September 1, 2018.

The most recent Summer School was held in 2017 at NC State University: http://www.chesummerschool.org.

Sincerely,
Margot Vigeant, chair, and the Summer School 2021 Committee:
Taryn Bales, Daniel Burkey, Laura Ford, Milo Koretsky, Daniel Lepek, Matt Liberatore

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7. SUBMITTING ED-DIV ANNOUNCEMENTS
To submit an EdDiv announcement, please prepare a maximum of a 2-3 paragraph description including any relevant URLs and contact information as well as a subject line. Do not include any attachments. Email this information to Katie Cadwell <kdcadwel@syr.edu> with the email heading “For EdDiv Announcements.” Announcements will be sent out near the beginning of each month. Each announcement will be included once, unless otherwise requested. Announcements will also be recorded on the Division website: http://www.aiche.org/community/sites/divisions-forums/education-division .
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