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# MIDFIELD Workshops {- #midfield-workshops}

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The *Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development* (MIDFIELD) is a partnership of higher education institutions with engineering programs. MIDFIELD contains student record data from 1988--2017 for approximately one million undergraduate, degree-seeking students at the partner institutions.

This site provides access to workshop materials for studying how undergraduate students maneuver through their curricula using MIDFIELD data. 

[[For more information about MIDFIELD]](https://engineering.purdue.edu/MIDFIELD){target="_blank"}







## Facilitators {-}

**Matthew Ohland** is the MIDFIELD Director and Principal Investigator. He is Professor and Associate Head of Engineering Education at Purdue University.

**Marisa Orr** is the MIDFIELD Associate Director and Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. 

**Russell Long** is MIDFIELD Managing Director and Data Steward. He developed the stratified data sample for the R packages used in this workshop.

**Susan Lord** is Director of the MIDFIELD Institute and Professor and Chair of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego.

**Richard Layton** is the MIDFIELD Data Display Specialist and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman. He is the lead developer of the R packages used in this workshop.







## Publications {-} 

The MIDFIELD team has been exploring and presenting the stories in the MIDFIELD data for several years. To see a sample of our work, you can follow these links: 

- Lord SM, Ohland MW, Layton RA,and Camacho MM (2019) Beyond pipeline and pathways: Ecosystem metrics. *Journal of Engineering Education*, 108, 32--56,  https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20250 
- Lord SM, Layton RA, and Ohland MW (2015) Multi-Institution study of student demographics and outcomes in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the USA, *IEEE Transactions on Education*, 58(3), 141--150,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2014.2344622  
- Brawner CE, Lord SM,  Layton RA, Ohland MW, and Long RA (2015) Factors affecting women's persistence in chemical engineering, *International Journal of Engineering Education* 31(6A), 1431--1447, https://tinyurl.com/y6jq58xh  


[[For more information about MIDFIELD publications]](https://engineering.purdue.edu/MIDFIELD/papers_presentations.html){target="_blank"}    




## Licenses {-} 

The following licenses apply to the text, data, and code in these workshops. Our goal is to minimize legal encumbrances to the dissemination, sharing, use, and re-use of this work. However, the existing rights of authors whose work is cited (text, code, or data) are reserved to those authors.

- [CC-BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) for all text.  
- [GPL-3](https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/GPL-3) for all code.  
- [CC0](https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_use_for_data) for all data.  



## Acknowledgement {-} 

Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Grant 1545667 "Expanding Access to and Participation in the Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development." 

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