Join us as we discuss life after grant terminations, keeping the work alive and relevant, and staying true to our values as researchers. Dr. Kendall shares with us her journey to engineering education and some insights into her ongoing work - The AMPLIFY Project, a collaborative effort that leveraged participatory research to explore the knowledge and practices at Hispanic Serving Institutions in the U.S. to understand faculty development along a continuum between deficit-based and asset-based framing of the educational experience. She candidly shares with us the gems uncovered by this project and the subsequent challenges that disruptions in funding have created and how WE, as a community, can help each other keep these impactful efforts going. Dr. Kendall shares an inspirational story for all those engineering faculty considering a line of inquiry in engineering education and hope for the future of engineering education.

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Amplify team: Alexandra Coso Strong, Gemma Henderson, Ines Basalo, and Henry Salgado

Engineering Leadership: Cindy Rottman, Meg Handley, Kim Wolfinbarger, and Brian Novoselich

UNIDOS: Monica Cardella

Engineering Identity: Maura Borrego & Cole Joslyn

Up and coming: Lori Houghtalen & Nichole Ramirez <- inspiration to keep going and to find joy in research again.

Relevant websites:

NDSL Sourcebook on engineering leadership development: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23733357/2022/2022/173

The AMPLIFY Project: https://www.utep.edu/engineering/amplify/

UNIDOS Center for Community Coordination: https://hsiunidos.org/

Dr. Sarah Rodriguez shares with us her autobiographical influenced research inquiry that explores being rural, Latina, and pursuing engineering education. We are so thankful to have had Dr. Rodriguez with us to discuss her upcoming book, endorsement of Chicana Feminist scholars during these difficult times, and place-based approaches. She shares with us her journey as a rural Latina engineering education scholar and prolific author in engineering education. Dr. Rodriguez low key drops some tips on how to build unexpected connections that lead to opportunities.

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Authored books:

Latin* Students in Engineering: An Intentional Focus on a Growing Population

Supporting Latina Students in Engineering and Computing: A Chicana Feminist Approach

Chicana Feminists -

• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Anzaldúa)
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa)
• Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Anzaldúa)

Dolores Delgado Bernal

Ruth López, Associate Professor, University of Arizona, College of Education

Joel Alex Mejia, University of Cincinnati

Blog - My Life as a Rural Latina Professor: A Journey in Finding Purpose and Place

Join us in our conversation with the revolutionary Dr. Alan Cheville of Bucknell University exploring his journey to and through engineering education from Physics to Photonics to revolutionary departmental efforts to transform engineering education. He shares with us his philosophy related to dealing with change in these uncertain times, but most notably he encourages us to hold onto hope and to each other. He’s a scholar after our own hearts with pithy quotes and words of wisdom.

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Jennifer Turns

Ron Ulseth

Becky Bates