MEERCat Purdue: A Cross-Disciplinary Post-Doc in the Mechanical Engineering Education Research Center at Purdue
Interdisciplinary Areas: | Data/Information/Computation |
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Project Description
The MEERCat center has nearly $6M in funded research grants (NSF EEC-1519421, DUE-1525671, DUE-1626287, among others) focused on engineering education research in a Mechanical Engineering (ME) context, with a particular interest in research-to-practice initiatives to support student success at multiple levels: in specific courses, within the department, and across the entirety of the student experience. The aggregate data across these projects is a unique and unprecedented collection of survey, interview, and academic record data that deeply contextualizes student outcomes within the institutional environment--its policies, practices, traditions, and `ways of doing'. Our team consists of ME content experts, expert engineering education researchers, anthropologists, institutional research staff, and many others.
We seek a post-doctoral researcher to look across these unique datasets and assemble a truly comprehensive view of student success. The coalescence of these datasets into a single holistic project is an unprecedented opportunity to advance our understanding of how students succeed, the role of departmental context in defining the undergraduate experience, and the interplay between local conditions in the classroom and the global culture of the department. Rapid advances will be possible by leveraging the enormous amount of quantitative and qualitative data available across these signature MEERCat projects.
Start Date
June 2019
Postdoc Qualifications
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Expertise in qualitative analysis (including software tools such as NVivo) - Strength in statistical analysis, especially using R (regression, factor analysis, etc.) - Experience carrying out qualitative and quantitative analyses with data sets from education, psychology, sociology, anthropology, or similar research areas - Excellent oral and written communication skills - Initiative, creativity, and flexibility - Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team - Strong prior experience leading publication of academic manuscripts |
bergere@purdue.edu | www.purdue.edu/meercat
Jeffrey Rhoads, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
jfrhoads@purdue.edu
Jennifer DeBoer, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
deboerj@purdue.edu