Gretchen Miller

Groundwater Engineering part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Courses
Groundwater Engineering is a lecture-based course designed to provide graduate students with both the background information and quantitative tools they will need to work in the water management and environmental consulting fields or to conduct related research.

Activities That Support Student Success in Traditional and Online Introductory Geoscience Courses at Wake Tech part of SAGE 2YC:Workshops:Supporting Student Success in Geoscience at Two-year Colleges:Essays
I teach two introductory geoscience courses at Wake Tech, GEL 120: Physical Geology and GEL 230: Environmental Geology. I teach both courses in traditional, seated environments as well as online. All of our introductory geoscience courses (including the online sections) require both lecture and laboratory sessions and are 4 credit hour courses.

Uncertainty and Risk: Bringing the Geosciences into the Civil Engineering Classroom part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Essays
This essay page from the InTeGrate project explores integrating geoscience concepts—such as embracing uncertainty, holistic systems thinking, and observational science—into civil engineering education to improve problem-solving skills and design practices, particularly in sustainability and risk assessment contexts.

Collaboration Between Wake Tech and NC State to Increase the Number and Diversity of Geoscience Students part of SAGE 2YC:Workshops:Preparing Students in Two-year Colleges for Careers:Essays
I have been successful in recruiting several students into geoscience majors in recent years simply through enthusiastic teaching and identifying students who are asking the right kinds of questions. I keep an email list of interested students, and forward any relevant information regarding educational opportunities...

Research Opportunities for 2YC Geoscience Students Through a Partnership with a 4YC part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
Wake Technical Community College (Wake Tech) is the largest two-year college in North Carolina and has a highly diverse student body. Most of the ~700 students who take our geology courses each semester are ...

Inclusion in the Geosciences-Instructional Approaches to Access and Accommodation part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Afternoon Mini Workshops
A professional development opportunity for current and future K- Higher Education geoscience faculty on behalf of the International Association for Geoscience Diversity (http://www.theIAGD.org). Need strategies and ...

GEL 120: Physical Geology at Wake Technical Community College part of Math You Need:Implementations
This is an implementation case study page detailing how Gretchen Miller at Wake Technical Community College integrated the "Math You Need" (TMYN) modules into her GEL 120: Physical Geology course to improve students' quantitative literacy; it covers enrollment context, specific math modules used (e.g., unit conversions, graphing, slopes), pedagogical strategies like pre/post-testing and just-in-time instruction, and reports positive learning outcomes including over 10% average score gains and high student engagement across online and seated sections.