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This session will begin with an overview of our research findings from CAREER: The Overlooked Barrier – Exploring How Engineering Education Research Teams Negotiate Epistemic Differences and the theoretical model that we developed and operationalized in Engineering Education – the GENI Model of Team Culture. Then, participants will reflect on their own group experiences and identify successful and challenging ways the elements of the model present in their groups. Finally, participants will review and discuss several vignettes that demonstrate situations where differences in thinking and conflict are present to encourage reflection on how participants might respond to such challenges in their own groups. This reflection and activities will guide each participant to develop or refine “rules of engagement” for their research or teaching group.  

Speakers

1. Dr. Courtney June Faber

   University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

   Courtney Faber, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo (UB). Prior to joining UB in August of 2023, she was a Research Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was also the Director of the Fundamentals of Engineering and Computing Teaching in Higher Education Certificate Program. Her research focuses on empowering engineering education scholars to be more effective at impacting transformational change in engineering and developing educational experiences that consider epistemic
   thinking. She develops and uses innovative research methods that allow for deep investigations of constructs such as epistemic thinking, identity, and agency. Dr. Faber has a B.S. in Bioengineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education from Clemson University and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
   from Cornell University. Among other awards for her research, she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2022 to study epistemic negotiations on interdisciplinary engineering education research teams.

2. Lorna Treffert

   University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

   Lorna Treffert is a 2nd year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at SUNY Buffalo. She holds both a BS and MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Her research interests include studying power dynamics within engineering research teams, and facilitating diversity and inclusion within engineering education.

3. Danielle V. Lewis

   Dr. Danielle Vegas Lewis is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo. Her research agenda aims to understand and disrupt the ways in which socially constructed identities allow for the reproduction of social inequality, with a focus on understanding the ways institutions of higher education and other social structures challenge or uphold hegemonic environments in which majority populations accumulate power that harms students underrepresented in certain contexts.