Work in Progress: Awarding Digital Badges for Demonstration of Student Skills

Abstract

is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department at Missouri S&T. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Arkansas and completed her Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Southern Mississippi. Schuman is a Project Management Professional (PMP) certified through the Project Management Institute. She worked for several years in the aerospace industry with the Boeing Company initially as a design engineer and then later in systems engineering. At Missouri S&T, she teaches a variety of courses emphasizing Project Management and Financial Management for both undergraduate and graduate level courses. Her research interests focus on engineering education with a special interest in Service Learning and project management. Schuman is also the Departmental Experiential Learning Coordinator. She has developed her undergraduate project management class into a Service Learning class where the students work with area communities on real projects that benefit both the communities and students.

A Combined E-Portfolio and Microcredentialing Tool for Engineering Identities and Career Pathways

“…A survey was developed to address four questions: a) to what extent are students aware of on-campus opportunities that can help them identify their career pathways; b) to what extent do students make use of and find value in those on-campus opportunities; c) to what extent would an e-portfolio and micro-credentialing platform be useful to students; and d) what features and format would be most useful for students on an e-portfolio/micro-credentialing platform. Questions used for this study were inspired by questions developed for a survey by Schuman [7]. The survey contained 24 Likert scale questions [8], four multiple-choice/multiple-select questions, and four open-ended questions.…”