2023
1.
O. A. Owolabi, & Abiodun
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Diversity and NSF Grantees Poster Session
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title = {Utilization of Social Management Theoretical Framework and Program Management Tool to Successfully Manage Large Multi-Department STEM Projects},
author = {Owolabi, O. A., & Abiodun, P. O., & Asahiah, A. O., & Abedoh, H., & Shokouhian, M., & Bazyar Shourabi, N., & Bista, K., & Gaulee, U., & Rahman, M. M., & Ladeji-Osias, J. K., & Emiola-Owolabi & O. V.},
url = {https://peer.asee.org/42777},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-25},
urldate = {2023-06-25},
pages = {24},
publisher = {2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition},
address = {Baltimore , Maryland},
abstract = {The Adapting an Experiment-centric Teaching Approach to Increase Student Achievement in Multiple STEM Disciplines (ETA-STEM) NSF program is an experiment-focused hands-teaching teaching pedagogy developed to promote motivation and academic achievement across seven STEM disciplines. The program is a large educational program with multi-Department STEM projects comprising about 200 tasks and 40 personnel. To facilitate the successful implementation of the ETA-STEM program, an efficient project management tool called Smartsheet was adopted to manage all the tasks to be carried out and the activities involved. The Smartsheet software has helped to efficiently facilitate project coordination, scheduling deliverables, communicating with and assigning tasks to project team members, monitoring tasks performance, and evaluation. The Smartsheet is a project management tool developed for coordinating and monitoring project activities, promoting productive guidance, efficient communication, appropriate supervision of the project team, optimization of the allocated necessary inputs, and their application to meeting the program’s objectives. The paper describes the functions and the operations of this tool utilized in managing the ETA-STEM project for the past three years. Additionally, the paper elaborates on the social management theoretical framework on which the project management principles are hinged. The impactful outcomes of the ETA-STEM program in increasing academic performance as well as improving key constructs associated with student success such as motivation, epistemic and perceptual curiosity, engineering identity, and self-efficacy presented in the paper reveal an efficient management strategy anchored on the the social management theoretical framework and facilitated by the project management tool.},
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The Adapting an Experiment-centric Teaching Approach to Increase Student Achievement in Multiple STEM Disciplines (ETA-STEM) NSF program is an experiment-focused hands-teaching teaching pedagogy developed to promote motivation and academic achievement across seven STEM disciplines. The program is a large educational program with multi-Department STEM projects comprising about 200 tasks and 40 personnel. To facilitate the successful implementation of the ETA-STEM program, an efficient project management tool called Smartsheet was adopted to manage all the tasks to be carried out and the activities involved. The Smartsheet software has helped to efficiently facilitate project coordination, scheduling deliverables, communicating with and assigning tasks to project team members, monitoring tasks performance, and evaluation. The Smartsheet is a project management tool developed for coordinating and monitoring project activities, promoting productive guidance, efficient communication, appropriate supervision of the project team, optimization of the allocated necessary inputs, and their application to meeting the program’s objectives. The paper describes the functions and the operations of this tool utilized in managing the ETA-STEM project for the past three years. Additionally, the paper elaborates on the social management theoretical framework on which the project management principles are hinged. The impactful outcomes of the ETA-STEM program in increasing academic performance as well as improving key constructs associated with student success such as motivation, epistemic and perceptual curiosity, engineering identity, and self-efficacy presented in the paper reveal an efficient management strategy anchored on the the social management theoretical framework and facilitated by the project management tool.