Redesigning a first-year engineering laboratory course to promote inquiry, reflection, and evidence-based reasoning when faced with open ended problem
Project Lead: Elizabeth Trudel (Lecturer, School of Engineering – Okanagan)Co-Lead: Louzanne Bam (Lecturer, School of Engineering – Okanagan) Project Summary The redesign of APSC 183 addresses a gap in the explicit teaching of laboratory skills prior to second-year disciplinary courses. The course uses a scaffolded pedagogical structure that introduces progressively complex concepts in data analysis […]
Teaching responsive AI use in research
Project Lead: Yilin Pan (Assistant Professor in Economics of Educational Equity, Educational Studies) Project Summary This project investigates an inquiry-based, experiential, and comparative approach to teaching responsible AI use in research. Rather than prescribing AI use or prohibition, students first complete research tasks manually, then use AI tools to support or replicate the same tasks, […]
Exploring Students’ Design Beliefs and Thinking Skills in a Project-Based Course
Project Lead: Oluwakemi Ola (Associate Professor of Teaching, Computer Science) Project Summary Teaching the technical aspects of creating visualizations is relatively standardized. However, design thinking, the ability to understand what makes a visualization effective, remains more challenging and less clearly understood. Students enter data visualization courses with varied, often unexamined beliefs about design. This SoTL […]
Engagement and Action for Indigenous Cultural Safety at Burnaby Hospital Pharmacy
Project Lead: Jason Min (Associate Professor of Teaching, Pharmaceutical Sciences)Co-Leads: Vincent Mabasa (Fraser Health Authority), Michael Kammermayer (Fraser Health Authority),and Larry Leung (Associate Professor of teaching, Pharmaceutical Sciences) Project Summary This project examines the perspectives of Indigenous patients and healthcare providers at Burnaby Hospital as part of their commitment to develop tangible and actionable responses […]
Making meaning of complexity: Using reflection to assess systems thinking, relevant course components, and transferable learning in One Welfare education
Project Lead: Lexis Ly (Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow, Applied Animal Biology)Co-Lead: Alexandra Protopopova (Associate Professor, Applied Animal Biology) Project Summary This project examines how undergraduate students develop systems thinking skills through engagement with One Welfare, a framework emphasizing interconnections among human, animal, and environmental wellbeing. We will analyze how students articulate complexity, trade-offs, and […]
Linguistic Justice and Belonging in the UBC Classroom
Project Lead: Moberley Luger (Associate Professor of Teaching, English Language and Literatures)Co-Leads: Sandra Zappa-Hollman (Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Education), and Marie-Eve Bouchard (Assistant Professor, French, Hispanic & Italian Studies) Project Summary The project is focused on promoting linguistic justice at UBC; it acknowledges that linguistic discrimination (e.g. accent discrimination) is insidious in our classrooms, […]
Belonging, Confidence, and Embodied Experience: A Phenomenological Study of Women in Manufacturing Engineering in Pursuit of Improved Program Design
Project Lead: Casey Keulen (Associate Professor of Teaching, Materials Engineering) Project Summary This project investigates women’s participation in manufacturing engineering through a phenomenological lens, focusing on embodied experiences of confidence, belonging, and sense of purpose. This will be examined through interviews with upper-year and graduate students, and surveys of early-stage students following the interviews, in […]
Putting the Action in the Classroom: Working with students to co-create participatory pedagogies
Project Lead: Bavisha Kalyan (Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering) Project Summary This pilot project will explore how participatory education and community-based research can be integrated into engineering pedagogy to promote deeper student engagement, ethical awareness, and real-world problem solving. Using a mixed-methods, classroom-based research design, students in a one term Community-Engaged Engineering (CIVIL 489) course will […]
Between Peer and Expert: The Student Journal Editor and the Culture of Undergraduate Writing
Project Lead: Kathleen (Katie) Fitzpatrick (Lecturer, Journalism, Writing, and Media) Project Summary In the field of writing pedagogy, substantial research has been dedicated to the value of peer feedback, both in classrooms and writing centres. Yet there appears to very little scholarship focused on student journal editors. In early conversations with student editors, I have […]
Designing for Sustained Cognitive Engagement and Participation in Large-Enrollment Engineering Materials Classrooms
Project Lead: Farzaneh Farhang Mehr (Assistant Professor of Teaching, Materials Engineering) Project Summary This project investigates how a deliberately varied sequence of structured multimodal in-class learning activities influences sustained cognitive engagement in large engineering materials classrooms. The project will explore guided collaborative activities, interactive concept exploration, and other activity modes embedded within lectures to support […]