Since June of 2017 – SARA Ambassadors conduct weekly activities on-site, in-lab, with the help of our team (average participation 7-10 students per week). These research groups were the first to work with us in integrating SARA activities within their labs; in fact, many activities, including Journal Clubs, were initiated in these labs.
Since January 2018 – an average participation of 8 students every 2 weeks. The students already want more!
Publications:
Two articles and two oral presentatations at the 2018 conference for the American Society For Engineering Education (ASEE):
Lala, P., Langevin Harnois, F., El Boussaidi, G., Desrosiers, C. & Laporte, C. (2018). « Providing sustainable scientific writing support for graduate engineering students by creating a local scientific learning community ». In 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (Salt Lake City, UT, June 24-27, 2018).
Langevin Harnois, F., Harrison, J., Lala, P., El Boussaidi, G., Desrosiers, C. & Laporte, C. (2018). « Promoting good scientific communication habits by leveraging the community of practice within a single research group ». In 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (Salt Lake City, UT, June 24-27, 2018).
And the students love it!