The anticipated audience for FIE represents a broad spectrum of backgrounds. Attendees cover all disciplines relating to engineering and computing education and come from a variety of institutions and organizations worldwide. Typical interests range from education research to extending promising results into their own educational settings. Attendees are eager to learn not only of your results but how your results might be applied in their particular discipline at their particular institution.
You can categorize your paper as:
1. Innovative Practice
2. Research-to-Practice
3. Research
Please note that one author from each paper is expected to register for and participate in the full conference.
These categories influence the overall structure and contents of the submitted work. Each category follows with suggestions for expected paper contents.
FULL PAPERS
1. Innovative Practice Category
Purpose:
Papers in the innovative practice category share information about how a instructor or team has developed and implemented novel practices across the breadth of topics of interest to conference participants. Each paper should address the following two areas.
Contribution:
Each abstract must briefly state the specific contribution of the paper to the innovative practice of engineering education. Contributions may be made in various forms, but they should answer questions such as the following: What is unique about the innovative practice to be presented? How does this innovative practice differ from and build on previous practice as documented in the literature, including previous FIE conferences? What new ideas would conference participants take away from this paper and/or presentation?
Description:
In this section, the authors would describe the setting (in the broad context of engineering education, not necessarily the particular institutional context) for the innovative practice, motivations for the innovative practice, what has been accomplished, what results have been obtained, and what remains to be done. Abstracts should clearly present the paper's relevance to engineering education and how the work is innovative.
Full Paper:
The criteria for full papers (limited to 8 pages and 1 page of acknowledgments and references) in the innovative practice category are the following:
• What is the breadth of the audience that will be interested in the subject of the paper?
• To what extent are the practices described in the paper innovative?
• To what extent does the paper connect its work to prior work?
• To what extent is the paper professionally written and presented?
View the INNOVATIVE PRACTICE REVIEW CRITERIA
2. Research-to-Practice Category
Purpose:
Papers in the research-to-practice category share information about how a faculty member or group of faculty members has developed and implemented new practices explicitly based on research on engineering education and/or education. Research-to-practice papers demonstrate transfer from research to practice. Each paper should address the following two areas.
Contribution:
Each abstract must briefly state the specific contribution of the paper towards illustrating how engineering education research informs engineering education practice. Contributions may be made in various forms, but they should answer such questions as: What is situation being addressed? What are the goals of the practice being implemented? What research provides the foundations for the inventive practice?
Description:
In this section, the authors would describe the setting (in the broad context of engineering education, not necessarily the particular institutional context) for the practice, motivations for the practice, research that has supported the practice, what results have been obtained, and what remains to be done. Ideally, the authors would include a clear statement of implications for educational practice, the certainty to which their attempt to transfer research to practice aligned with the expectations from related work, and delineate the actor(s) and action(s) implied.
Full Paper:
The criteria for the full papers (limited to 8 pages and 1 page of acknowledgments and references) in the research-to-practice category are the following:
• What is the breadth of the audience that will be interested in the subject of the paper?
• To what extent are the practices described in the paper innovative?
• To what extent are the educational practices described in the paper based on research in education and/or engineering education?
• To what extent does the paper demonstrate transfer from educational research to educational practice?
• To what extent is the paper professionally written and presented?
View the RESEARCH-TO-PRACTICE REVIEW CRITERIA
3. Research Category
Purpose:
Papers in the research category present new, preliminary research results or research methodologies. Each paper should address the following two areas.
Contribution:
Each abstract must briefly state the specific research contribution of the paper. Contributions may be made in various forms, but they should answer questions such as the following: What are the research questions that were addressed? What results have been found? How do the results build on prior research?
Description:
In this section, the authors describe the context for the research, motivations for the research, prior research related to this research, a brief synopsis of the methodology, what results have been obtained, and what remains to be done. Ideally, the authors would highlight the research findings and methods, include a clear statement of implications for educational practice, the certainty to which the research suggests the implication, and the actor(s) and action(s) implied by the findings.
Full Paper:
The criteria for the full papers (limited to 8 pages and 1 page of acknowledgments and references) in the research category are:
• What is the breadth of the audience that will be interested in the subject of the paper?
• To what extent are the research questions clearly stated?
• To what extent is the methodology appropriate for the research questions?
• To what extent does the paper incorporate the relevant research?
• To what extent are the research questions and results meaningful and original
• To what extent is the paper professionally written and presented?
View the RESEARCH REVIEW CRITERIA