PhD Program Requirements and Curriculum
Accordions
Seventeen credits of required core engineering education coursework
- ENGREDU 6100: Foundations and the Field of Engineering Education (three credits)
- ENGREDU 6200: Learning Theory, Pedagogy, and Assessment (three credits)
- ENGREDU 7189.01: Teaching Practicum I (two credits, must be taken in the same term as the start of a significant two-semester teaching experience)
- ENGREDU 7189.02: Teaching Practicum II (one credit, must be taken in the same term as the second semester of a significant two-semester teaching experience)
- ENGREDU 7780: Engineering Education Research Design (three credits)
- ENGREDU 7881: Seminar in Engineering Education (one credit each semester with a requirement of two total to count toward the degree with expectation that students will participate each semester of enrollment unless there are schedule conflicts)
- ENGREDU 7900: Career Exploration and Professional Development in Engineering Education (three credits)
Nine credits in research methods through courses that support the student’s research
- Three credits of quantitative research methods that includes an emphasis on statistics, including but not limited to the following existing OSU courses:
- STAT 5510: Statistical Foundations of Survey Research
- STAT 6201 Mathematical Statistics
- STAT 6410: Design and Analysis of Experiments
- ESQREM 6641: Introduction to Educational Statistics
- ESQREM 6661: Introduction to Educational Measurement
- ESQREM 6625 Introduction to Educational Research
- Three credits of qualitative research methods, including but not limited to the following existing OSU courses:
- ESHESA 7256: Qualitative Research in Higher Educational Settings
- EDUTL 8001: Discourse Analysis and Educational Research I
- ESQRE 8280: Qualitative Research in Education: Paradigms, Theories, and Exemplars
- Three credits of advanced / mixed research methods, including but not limited to the following existing OSU courses:
- ESQREM 7635: Advanced Research Methods
- EDUTL 7749 Concept Inventories in STEM Education
- ESQRE 8290: Qualitative Research in Education: Methods and Analysis
- EDUTL 8751: Survey and Critical Analysis of Research in STEM Education
- EDUTL 8002: Discourse Analysis and Educational Research II
Twelve credits of specialization elective coursework through approved courses that support the student’s research focus and future career goals to include:
Three credits minimum within the Department of Engineering Education
- ENGR 7710 Engineering Research Communications
- ENGREDU 6194 Special Topics
Three credits minimum outside the Department of Engineering Education
A coherent course of study in the student's chosen area of specialization. Each faculty advisor will work with their students to together define the specialization focus for each student's coursework, based on student needs and faculty interests. Further categorization will be developed among the emergent individual specializations. It is not intended that any specializations will appear on the student transcript unless the student specifically chooses to draw upon existing OSU programs that are already noted on transcripts. Some examples (many of which are transcriptable) include:
- Adult education / Business human resource development
- African American and African studies (transcriptable OSU graduate minor)
- Anti-Racism in Education (transcriptable OSU graduate certificate)
- Applied developmental science in education (transcriptable OSU interdisciplinary specialization)
- College and university teaching (transcriptable OSU graduate certificate)
- Disability studies (transcriptable OSU interdisciplinary specialization)
- Educational Ethics (transcriptable OSU graduate certificate)
- Engineering technical communications
- Humanitarian engineering
- Inclusive Education (transcriptable OSU graduate certificate)
- Inter-professional studies (transcriptable OSU interdisciplinary specialization)
- Latino/a studies (transcriptable OSU interdisciplinary specialization)
- Neuroscience (transcriptable OSU graduate minor)
- Nonprofit studies (transcriptable OSU graduate minor)
- Public policy and management (transcriptable OSU graduate minor)
- Sexuality studies (transcriptable OSU interdisciplinary specialization)
- Statistics and statistical data analysis (transcriptable OSU graduate minor)
- Survey research (transcriptable OSU interdisciplinary specialization)
- Women's, gender, and sexuality studies (transcriptable OSU graduate minor)
- World Language Education (Online; transcriptable OSU graduate certificate)
- EDUTL 8015 Diversity and Equity in Education
- ESHESA 7850 Critical Race Theory in Higher Education
- ESHESA 7570 Internationalizing Colleges and Universities
- EDUTL 7015 Curricular Approaches to Multicultural and Equity Studies in Education
- EDUTL 6808 Multicultural and Global Perspectives in Teaching and Learning
- EDUTL 7025 Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
- EDUTL 7030 Multicultural Influences in Education
- EDUTL 7035 Teaching for Social Justice
Twelve credits in traditional engineering coursework at the 5000 level or higher*
Thirty credits of dissertation research (ENGREDU 8999 or other approved 8999 course)