Janice Miller-Young, PhD, P.Eng.

Area of Study / Keywords

engineering education educational development (faculty professional learning about teaching) scholarship of teaching and learning students as partners

About

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (biomechanics), University of Calgary, 2003
• B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary, 1995

Professional Affiliations

• Professional Engineer, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)
• Member, Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
• Member, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)

Research

ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1918-5469

Are you interested in doing graduate research work in engineering education? Please contact me; find out more about my areas of work here: my google sites page

Current research support:

SSHRC Insight Development grant: Underrepresented groups in engineering education, 2021-2023

Editing:

Miller-Young, J. & Chick, N. (Eds.) Being and Becoming a Teaching and Learning Scholar in Higher Education. Call for Chapter Proposals.

Miller-Young, J. & Boman, J. (Eds.) (2017). Using the decoding the disciplines framework for learning across disciplines. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Jossey-Bass.

Recent and key publications:

Jamieson, M., Ead, A.S., Rowe, A., Miller-Young, J., & Carey, J.P. (2022). Design at scale in a first-year transdisciplinary engineering design course. International Journal of Engineering Education, 38(1), 14-24.

Miller-Young, J., Marin, L.F., Poth, C., Vargas-Madriz, L.F., Xiao, J. (2021). The development and psychometric properties of an educational development impact questionnaire. Studies in Educational Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2021.101058

Mooney, J. & Miller-Young, J. (2021). The Educational Development Interview: A guided conversation supporting professional learning about teaching practice in higher education. The International Journal of Academic Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2021.1934687

Miller-Young, J. & Poth, C. (2021). ‘Complexifying’ our approach to evaluating educational development outcomes: Bridging theoretical innovations with frontline practice. The International Journal of Academic Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2021.1887876

Cappello, A. & Miller-Young, J. (2020). Who are we citing and how? A SoTL citation analysis. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 8(2), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.8.2.2

Miller-Young, J., Sinclair, M., & Forgie, S. (2020). Teaching excellence and how it is awarded: a Canadian case study. The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 50(1), 40-52. https://doi.org/10.7202/1069650ar

Miller-Young, J., & Yeo, M. (2015). Conceptualizing and Communicating SoTL: A Framework for the Field. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, the ISSoTL Journal, 3(2), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.3.2.37

Select biomechanics publications:

Spears, I. R., Miller-Young, J. E., Sharma, J., Ker, R. F., & Smith, F. W. (2007). The potential influence of the heel counter on internal stress during static standing: a combined finite element and positional MRI investigation. Journal of Biomechanics, 40(12), 2774-2780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2007.01.004

Spears, I. R., Miller-Young, J. E., Waters, M., & Rome, K. (2005). The effect of loading conditions on stress in the barefooted heel pad. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 37(6), 1030-1036. https://doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000171620.07016.6d

Miller-Young, J. E., Duncan, N. A., & Baroud, G. (2002). Material properties of the human calcaneal fat pad in compression: experiment and theory. Journal of biomechanics, 35(12), 1523-1531. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9290(02)00090-8

Recent conference papers and presentations:

Kim, M., McFeetors, J., Rose, K., Jin, Q., Biswas, S., Carey, J., Miller-Young, J., Jamieson, M., Adeeb, S. (2021, December). Supporting Student-centered University Engineering Education: Results from the Pilot of a Modular Program Promoting Pedagogical Change. Paper presented at the annual International Conference on Learning and Teaching, Hong Kong, China.

Miller-Young, J., Beck, S., & Jamieson, M. (2021, June). Gamifying and evaluating first-year design: Development of a questionnaire to assess student experience and motivation in a large, online course. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, Charlottetown, PEI. https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.vi0.14828

Miller-Young, J. & Yu, S. (2021, June). Development of a phenomenographic interview process for understanding underrepresented students' experiences in engineering design. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, University of Prince Edward Island.