Odesma Dalrymple, PhD
Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
- PhD, Purdue University
- MENG, Morgan State University
- BS, Morgan State University
Dr. Dalrymple is an engineering education scholar by training. She attained a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University, and a MEng. in Industrial Engineering and a BS in Electrical Engineering, both from Morgan State University. Dr. Dalrymple conducts research on tools and techniques that can be readily applied in real engineering learning environments to improve student learning and teaching. In this respect she has pursued three main lines of research: The first looks at artefact-inspired discovery–based pedagogy, i.e., learning activities where students’ exploration of STEM knowledge is self-directed and motivated by interactions or manipulations of artefacts. The second looks at the development of faculty expertise in outcomes-based course design through the use of the Instructional Module Development system (imods), a self-guided web-based training tool (still under development). The third, which is both the most recent and now the most significant, looks at teacher professional development, i.e., the development of engineering thinking in teachers of 4th – 12th grade, and the translation of that thinking in their teaching of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics
Dr. Dalrymple is also the co-founder of the STEAM Labs™ program, an outreach initiative that challenges teams of participants to learn and apply the engineering design process to build chain-reaction machines in a project-based environment that can span one or more sites connected through the Internet. The program teaches participants real-world engineering skills, provides experience with systems thinking and multi-team collaboration, and creates a pathway for participants to master 21st Century competencies and better understand careers in engineering, and other science, technology and math fields. This program has been successfully deployed in formal and informal education settings with 1700+ middle and high school students across 18 U.S. sites and 1 site in Trinidad and Tobago. A total of 600 teachers have also been trained to implement aspects of this program through various workshops.
Scholarly Work
- With Mejia, A., Chen, D., and Lord, S., "Revealing the Invisible: Conversations about -Isms and Power Relations in Engineering Courses," American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018.
- With Gray, S., Tesfaye, M., and Daryanani, R., "An experiential approach to understanding the engineering design process," University of San Diego Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research Conference, San Diego, CA, 2016.
- With Bansal, S. and Gaffar, A., "Building Faculty Expertise in Outcomes-based Education," NSF Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice Symposium (EnFUSE), Washington, 2016.
- With Daryanani, R., "Using an Engineering Design Experience in the 6th Grade Curriculum to Promote Interest and Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math," University of San Diego Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research Conference, San Diego, CA, 2016.
- With Bansal, S., "Repository of Instructional and Assessment Techniques for OBE-Based Instructional Module Development System," Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET), vol. 29, pp. 93-100, 2016.
- With Jordan, S. and Pereira, N., "The impact of design swapping on student design sketch quality," International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE), vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1984-1998, 2016.
- With Henry, L., Bridge, J., Henderson, M., and Chavez, M., "Key factors around ocean-based power in the Caribbean region, via Trinidad and Tobago," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 50, pp. 160-175, 2015.
- With Bansal, S. and Bansal, A., "Outcome-based Education Model for Computer Science Education," vol. 28, no. 2, 3, pp. 113-121, 2015.
- With Sears, D. and Evangelou, D., "The Relative Pedagogical Value of Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA) Activities," Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 6, 2013.
- With Sears, D. and Evangelou, D., "The Motivational and Transfer Potential of Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble Activities," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 741-759, 2011.