Synopsis "Making Changes in Stem Education"
Many science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM) faculty wish to make an academic change at the course, department, college, or university level, but they lack the specific tools and training that can help them achieve the changes they desire. This book provides the specific roadmap needed. Making Changes in STEM Education: The Change Maker's Toolkit is a practical guide based on academic change research and designed to equip STEM faculty with the skills necessary to accomplish their academic change goals. Each tool is categorized by a dominant theme in change work, such as opportunities for change, strategic vision, communication, teamwork, stakeholders, and partnerships, and is contextualized via essays by the author, herself a change leader in STEM. In addition, the author provides interviews with STEM faculty who are engaged in their own change projects, offering additional insight into how the tools can be applied to a variety of educational contexts. The book is ideal for STEM faculty who are working to change their courses, curricula, departments, and campuses and STEM administrators who lead such change work to support their faculties, as well as graduate students in STEM who plan to enter an academic position upon graduation and expect to work on academic change projects. It also suits engineers working in Industrial Engineering, Project Management Lean, and Systems Engineering.
