JenReviewDenver

Proposal Presentation Review

Presenter: Denver Reviewer: Jen Barton

1. Did the presentation clearly describe the aims of the research – empirical, conceptual, methodological and practical?

Yes. Very nice articulations. I would like to have heard a little bit more about why you want to evoke a re-evaluation of engineers within education. That reason might help you flesh out your conceptual articulations a bit more too.--perhaps something about elites and power concentrations?

It sounds like you're going to have a lot to say about theories and practices of education

2. Did the presentation provide an overview of what we already know about the research subject, and then explain how the proposed research will create new knowledge?

How would you define and identify “personal development”? I like that question, but the term probably needs explication.

3. Did the presentation provide a robust sense of how the research will be carried out, and of the type of data that will be collected?

Yes. I like how you say the different kinds of information that you will get from different methods.

4. Did the research plan presented seem credible and feasible?

Yes, as above.

5. Did the presentation provide a tangible sense of the book and other outcomes of the research?

Yes. I like how you give a long term trajectory for your work.

6. Did the presentation persuade you that the proposed research is important, in this historical moment in particular?

I think you could maybe do more here—is there something particular going on politically or culturally that makes these questions especially timely? Or something particular going on in educational or other theoretical trajectories?

7. Was the speaking style clear, engaging and well timed? Yes. (Your spoken English has improved so much since you've been here!)

8. Further comments and questions. The questions about gender were really interesting—not just in terms of understanding how men and women experience engineering education differently in different contexts, but also in terms of how education and engineering are themselves structured. Ditto the question about resistance.