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ExCEL - Center for Engineering Learning

 

Vision

Through the accomplishments of its researchers, the College of Engineering at NMSU will be recognized as a leader on innovative ways to increase access and enrich the Higher Ed experience for engineering students.  In particular, the land grant traditions of learning and discovery combined with the strong drive to serve all students in the state will help meet important academic and non-academic needs and enhance social mobility among engineering students at NMSU. 

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"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."

 --George Washington Carver

Mission

The ex CEL mission is to foster interdisciplinary innovations and collaborations in order to increase access and success for engineering students by conducting world-class research on the engineering learner, the learning experience, whether on-campus or online, and to identify best practices for supporting student learning and degree completion. 

 

What We Do

The Center provides value by creating an environment that increases the effectiveness and competitiveness of education-focused research funding in the college of engineering. The Center will serve as an organizing service and institutional entry point to faculty seeking to become active in collaborative engineering education research. An important goal for proposals that are generated through the Center will be that proposals will include groupings of faculty not currently collaborating on proposals. Another key goal will be that faculty with current funding has increased efficiency in their work so that they can apply for new funds while fulfilling their current grant obligations. Both of these goals will be tracked to assess the Center’s effectiveness and vision attainment.
 
Of specific interest of exCEL is to collect and manage data, group projects and support them with a data analytics dashboard, IRB technical help and human subjects guidance, data analytics with key social media access, developing strategic collaborations to expand faculty research capabilities, and space/technology for enhancing collaborations.  The funding of the center will support faculty and allow faculty to get enhanced indirect rates to provide more resources to achieve their project goals.
Defining the center through branding of center initiatives will help explain the objectives and group projects as having one or more of the “exponential functions” as follows:
 
e1 – Access
e2 – Transitions
e3 – Experiences
e4 – Partnerships
e5 – Pathways
ex – (Undefined and available based on innovative thinking by faculty)
Emphasis will be placed on pursuing sponsored projects that can also connect multiple “exponential functions” to create new paradigms for engineering learning. 
 

News & Events

Building HSI Learning Resilience in the Face of Crisis was a 2-day virtual conference focusing on the pandemic and its impact on Hispanic Serving Institution student learning. Program sessions featured current practices and emphasized exploring new digital tools to enhance distance learning.  The conference was made possible by the National Science Foundation (NSF award 2041515).

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