Schedule

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Coordinators:
Steve Cramer, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Do attitudes follow behaviors or behaviors follow attitudes? Does it matter? Five best practices will be the focus of this session: learning in context, group-based learning, increased time on task, increased frequency of feedback, and positive classroom climate. Web 2.0 technologies have a special role. So begin to imagine your course in the google world.

Panelists:
Aaron Brower
Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning
University of Wisconsin

New engineering teaching assistants will move to their NEO workshops. All others will move to presentations that were shared at the national June, 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and the October, 2008 Frontiers in (Engineering) Education Conference. We believe that this new approach to the Teaching Improvement Program will demonstrate a broad engineering education context within which we have to privilege to contribute. We encourage you to become actively involved in "creating a culture for scholarly and systematic innovation in engineering education." See Phase I report introduced at ASEE.

If you have little or no experience with the new eCOW2 course management system or if you just want reassurance, this workshop is for you. Bring your laptop for this hands-on workshop. By the end of the workshop, you will have created an eCOW2 page for your course or, if your professor already has one set up, you will know the basics about adding resources, interactive activities, grades, and comments to students. You will also learn how to access the Technology- Enhanced Learning (TEL) support network.

Coordinators:
Paul Oliphant, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), IT Consultant
Tim Tynan, Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Lead Consultant
TEL Technology Consultants

Catch the vision of how technology can help your students learn! Create an e- learning environment by building on your eCOW2 (moodle)course management system. See how others are using more advanced functions. Bring your laptop and leave with some new features that will engage your students and help them learn. You will also learn how to access the Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) support network.

Coordinators:
Paul Oliphant, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Associate Director
Tim Tynan, Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Lead Consultant
TEL Technology Consultants

This forum will showcase work that your colleagues have shared at national and regional conferences including the June, 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and the October, 2008 Frontiers in (Engineering) Education Conference. Specific authors and paper titles follow.

Coordinators:
Classroom Learning and Instruction in High-School Precollege Engineering Settings: A Video-Based Analysis: Mitchell Nathan, Allen Phelps, Amy Prevost, Kyle Oliver
Competencies for Student-Support Staff and Engineering Librarians: Amy Kindschi, Anne Glorioso, Diana Wheeler
Developing Undergraduate Students' Design Skills Using On-Line Video Modules and Active-Learning Exercises: Greta Zenner, Katie Cadwell, Wendy Crone, Naomi Chesler
Student-Initiated Supplemental Training Curriculum for Support of BME Design Projects: Amit Nimunkar, Silas Bernardoni, Tyler Lark, Willis Tompkins
Understanding the Current Work and Values of Professional Engineers: Implication for Engineering Education: Christine Nicometo, Kevin Anderson, Thomas McGlamery, Traci Nathans-Kelly, Sandra Courter

This forum will showcase work that your colleagues have shared at national and regional conferences including the June, 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and the October, 2008 Frontiers in (Engineering) Education Conference. Specific authors and paper titles follow.

Coordinators:
The Use and Development of Evidence-Based Systems for Improving Learning in Engneering Classes: Jay Martin, John Mitchell, Sandra Courter
Development of Instructional Materials to Achieve Ethics across the Engineering Curriculum: Kristyn Masters and Sarah Pfatteicher
First-year Students as Interviewers: Uncovering What It Means to be an Engineer: Sandra Courter and Kevin Anderson
High-School Teacher's Beliefs about Engineering Preparation: Allen Phelps, Amy Atwood, Mitchell Nathan, Amy Prevost
Global Engineering Education Initiative through Student Organization: Ann M. Sagstetter, Lucas K. Vitzthum, Johnathan R. Meyer, Amit J. Nimunkar, John G. Webster

This forum will showcase work that your colleagues have shared at national and regional conferences including the June, 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and the October, 2008 Frontiers in (Engineering) Education Conference. Specific authors and paper titles follow.

Coordinators:
Work in Progress: A First-Year Introduction-to-Engineering Course on Society's Engineering Grand Challenges: Samira Azarin, Nicola Ferrier, Stephen Kennedy, Daniel Klingenberg, Kristyn Masters, Katherine McMahon, Jeff Russell, Susan Hagness
Important Lessons in Engineering Education Learned from Seven Years of Experience in Undergraduate Academic Support Programs: Jia-Ling Lin and Donald Woolston
The Integration of Mathematics into Precollege Engineering: The Search for Explicit Connections: Mitchell Nathan, Benjamin Stein, Amy Prevost, Allen Phelps
Industry-Student Partnerships in Development and Sharing of Education Content Involving Labview: John Webster, Silas Bernardoni, Amit Nimunkar, Tyler Lark
Best Practices for Presentation Planning and Visuals: Christine Nicometo and Traci Nathans-Kelly

The Technical Communication Program in CoE has been developing four online communication modules to pilot this fall in the College of Engineering. Our plan is to use these modules in our own courses to supplement our teaching; next semester, we will encourage their use in any engineering courses that require a substantial writing component, particularly the senior design courses. Our idea is that the modules will encourage skills transfer among courses, meaning ultimately a stronger, more consistent approach to communication across the College. This workshop will present preliminary views of two modules: "Macro- Organization of Technical Documents" and "Using Graphics Effectively in Technical Documents." We will share our learning objectives, provide a brief (10-minute) lesson on both topics, and then have the audience test some of the online quiz questions. This feedback will help us improve these modules before we launch them. This session will also be useful to new TAs or instructors who are grading undergraduate writing assignments and to graduate students who will be working on their own writing projects this year.

Coordinators:
Laura Grossenbacher, Director, Technical Communication Program
Christina Matta, Lecturer, Technical Communication Program