This is an interactive seminar in which we will discuss how ENE is positioning its identity via publication forums. Handouts of top ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) and our developed list of ENE publications will be provided as artifacts of current publication practices. We will then converse about the contributions of Engineering Educators to the research literature and how it can “migrate outside of its own neighborhood” (Shulman, 2005). Our discussion will gravitate around the questions of:

1. Where do we get our intellectual stimulation from (what do we read)?
2. Is JEE everyone’s primary publication site? OR Are people engaging different communities (perhaps the ones they come from)?
3. How do we justify an identity when talking to other educational/social science fields?
4. How are (or should be) publications weighted for tenure purposes at Purdue?

Shulman, L. S. (2005). If Not Now, When? The Timeliness of Scholarship of the Education of Engineers. Journal of Engineering Education 94(1), 11-12.

Dr. Noemi V. Mendoza-Diaz, Ph.D., is a Post-doctoral Researcher working within INSPIRE’s (Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning) Assessment team, at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from National Polytechnic Institute Mexico and her Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Human Resource Development from Texas A&M University. She worked as a professor for two Mexican Universities prior to her arrival at Purdue. She has experience as assistant to the superintendent for the Brazos School, a College Station- Houston P-12 Charter School in Texas. Her research experience relates to systemic change models and qualitative methods of inquiry. Her current research interests include assessment, theory building, and instructional design in engineering education from pre-school education to life-long learning (pedagogy and andragogy).