Robotics-empowered convergence engineering education
Shen He, Aren Petrossian, Joseph Vizcarra, Eva Schiorring, Mark R. Tufenkjian · 2024
Eva Schiorring has almost two decades of experience in research and evaluation and special knowledge about STEM education in community colleges and four-year institutions.She presently serves as the external evaluator for seven NSF-funded projects.These include evaluation of two projects aimed at increasing participation in undergraduate research for students from minoritized populations and an initiative to increase diversity in a predominantly white elite engineering college through collaboration with local community colleges.Eva is also evaluating an ATE project to recruit and prepare community college students for careers in bioscience and a project to train and support faculty to use Mastery-Based Grading in STEM courses.Past projects include evaluation of an NSF-funded project to improve advising for engineering students at a major state university in California.Ms. Schiorring is the author and co-author of numerous papers and served as project lead on a major study of transfer in engineering.Ms.