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2002-2003 SUCCEED WORKSHOPS
Breakthroughs In Engineering Education
SUCCEED is pleased to offer the following workshops,
free of charge, to the Engineering Education Community. For more
information on how to participate in these workshops,
click here.
Teaching Effectiveness
Curriculum Development
Student Success and
Development
Faculty Development
Assessment
Technology In Education
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Length:
2 hours |
Student-Centered
Approach to Teaching |
| The goal of this workshop is
to provide faculty with tools and practice using them to unleash the
potential of these resources. Teaching tools that will be covered
include learning objectives, lecturing, questioning, multimedia
(chalkboard, transparencies, handouts, videotapes, websites, computer
software, etc.), out-of-class activities, active learning, use of real
world examples and exercises, and rewards. Learning assessment tools
to be covered include classroom assessment techniques, tests, grading
rubrics, standardized exams, and portfolios. Most of the workshop time
will be devoted to exercises that will provide practice using the
teaching and assessment tools. Instructor: Dr. Keith
Schimmel, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, NC A&T State
University |
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Length:
2 hours or Full Day |
Effective
Teaching with Technology |
| This workshop is targeted to
those creating/using technology for instructional purposes. Workshop
content includes how students’ learning styles and faculty teaching
styles can be enhanced and blended through technology. The workshop
shows examples and traits of effective web sites, discusses tracking
student usage with technology, describes methods and techniques to
employ when beginning to think about creating or using technology for
assisting learning, and the workshop can include a brief "how-to"
session with some software. This workshop is not designed to teach
specific software, but rather to address those issues that faculty or
site creators must consider when either using technology or developing
technology for the web.
Instructor: Dr. Nelson Baker, Associate Professor of Civil
and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech |
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Length:
2 or 3 hours |
Active Classroom Learning with Multimedia |
| The motto of the workshop,
which reflects extensive research on technology in education, is:
"Select first the best methods learning and teaching and then the
technologies to support those methods." The organization of this
interactive workshop parallels that of typical class period: (1) We
start with a warm-up problem to engage the learner; (2) follow with
brief presentations interspersed with cooperative group activities;
(3) and close with an assessment of the day’s lesson and activities.
The workshop includes: (1) Kolb’s 4-stage experiential learning cycle
linked with Gardner’s multiple intelligences and examples of inductive
and deductive learning; (2) multimedia learning modules with emphasis
on learning strategies; and (3) guidelines for courseware development.
Instructor: Dr. Siegfried Holzer, Alumni Distinguished
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech |
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Length:
3 hours |
Developing Quality Technology-Based Materials |
| This workshop is targeted to
engineering faculty and graduate students who are interested in
developing technology-based materials and using them to enrich and
enhance student learning. The presenter will discuss how faculty can
identify goals for the use of technology and tailor their materials
development efforts to produce appropriate products. Traits of the
effective use of technology in the learning environment will be
described in order to help the developer understand the expected
audience and how they might focus in on learning needs. Several
examples of best practices will be given. Instructor: Dr. Joe
Tront, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech |
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Length:
Varies |
Freshman Engineering Programs |
| This workshop can be tailored
to variety of purposes. It can range from an overview of a variety of
approaches to freshman engineering programs to a more indepth
discussion of best practices of a particular approach or set of
approaches. The instructor is able to provide contact information for
practitioners of different approaches in order to facilitate their
implementation at a new site, and given sufficient notice, may be able
to arrange for appropriate co-presenters.
Instructor: Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Assistant Professor of
General Engineering, Clemson University |
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Length:
1 hour |
Multidisciplinary Design Seminar |
| Abstract: This one hour
seminar will include a review of SUCCEED best practices in
multidisciplinary design, a summary of experience with a faculty
reward (mini-grant) system, and a discussion of emerging college-wide
paths to institutionalization. Instructor: Dr. David Ollis,
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State
University |
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Length:
3 hours |
Multidisciplinary Design Workshop |
| This workshop will include a
review of SUCCEED best practices in multidisciplinary design, a
summary of experience with a faculty reward (mini-grant) system, and a
discussion of emerging college-wide paths to institutionalization. In
addition, this workshop will include a detailed review and analysis of
three distinct multidisciplinary course structures and will involve
audience participants through development of their own new or modified
multidisciplinary course or project within the context of these
formats. Instructor: Dr. David Ollis, Distinguished Professor
of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University |
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Length:
2 hours |
Evolving Design Projects |
| This work involves the
integration of engineering design and practice throughout a chemical
engineering curriculum. The students work on a case study from their
sophomore through senior years. In this way, the students see how much
of the important material in the curriculum interacts. This research
also demonstrates how to handle a program of this type with a large
number of co-op students.
Instructor: Dr. Douglas E. Hirt, Associate Professor of
Chemical Engineering, Clemson University |
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Length:
2 or 4 hours |
Peer Mentoring: The MAPS Approach |
| MAPS (Maximizing Academic and
Professional Success) is designed to improve retention of first-year
engineering students. The objectives of this program are to help
students successfully transition into the academic environment,
acquire the skills necessary to improve and enhance learning, and
enjoy a positive and successful first-year experience. This workshop
is designed to help participants learn strategies for developing,
implementing, assessing, and continuously improving a retention
program that specifically utilizes peer mentoring. A starter "tool
kit" of tools and materials will be provided to participants. Actual
assessment results and lessons learned will be also shared with the
audience.
Instructors: Mrs. Catherine Blat, Director of MAPS Program,
and Ms. Patty Tolley, Assistant Dean for Student Development and
Success, The William States Lee College of Engineering, University of
North Carolina at Charlotte |
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Length:
2 or 4 hours |
Supplemental Instruction |
| Supplemental Instruction (SI)
is a non-remedial program that utilizes peer assisted review sessions
and targets historically difficult academic courses. Although
Supplemental Instruction (SI) has been used nationally for decades, it
has only recently been applied to engineering courses. It has been
used in non-engineering and pre-engineering courses and with varying
degrees of success. This workshop is designed to help participants
learn strategies for the development, implementation, assessment, and
continuous improvement of this program. Actual assessment results and
lessons learned will be shared with the audience. Instructors:
Mrs. Catherine Blat, Director of MAPS Program; Ms. Kathleen Nunnally,
Associate Director of Faculty Outreach and Academic Support; and Ms.
Patty Tolley, Assistant Dean for Student Development and Success, The
William States Lee College of Engineering, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte |
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Length:
2 hours |
Bridge Programs: The STEPUP Approach |
| Established as a transition
program for minority engineering students, STEPUP (Successful
Transition through Enhanced Preparation for Undergraduate Programs)
has proven to be a very useful vehicle for improving retention of this
group of underrepresented students in engineering. The program focuses
on front-end preparation, along with continuous support through the
senior year in the form of advising, counseling, mentoring, and
tutoring. The result is that students who participated in this program
had a much higher retention rate than those who did not. This workshop
will discuss elements of a successful program, assessment results, and
lessons learned in developing and continuing such a program.
Instructor: Dr. Jonathan Earle, Assistant Dean for Academic
Programs, University of Florida |
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Length:
1 day |
Developing an Effective Faculty Development
Program |
| A comprehensive faculty
development model has been designed and implemented on the SUCCEED
Coalition campuses. The model has six components, including
infrastructure needed to support faculty development (coordination at
the college level, links with existing university faculty development,
incentives and rewards) and program elements (learning opportunities,
new faculty programs, graduate student programs). This one-day
activity includes a short seminar on developing an effective faculty
development program plus individual consulting assistance to campuses
wishing to initiate or improve their faculty development programs.
Instructor: Dr. Richard Felder, Hoechst Celanese Professor
Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University or
Dr. Rebecca Brent, Co-director of the SUCCEED Faculty Development
program |
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Length:
2-3 hours |
Evaluating and Rewarding Teaching Scholarship |
| In this session we define the
scholarship of teaching and learning, outline criteria and methods for
assessing and evaluating its quality, review case studies of
scholarship in engineering education, and discuss ways in which
educational scholarship might be included in the faculty reward
system. Participants will have an opportunity to evaluate successful
and unsuccessful grant proposals for education-related research and
will be helped to identify possible research projects of their own and
to formulate preliminary proposal outlines. Instructors: Dr.
Richard Felder, Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical
Engineering, North Carolina State University and Dr. Rebecca Brent,
Co-director of the SUCCEED Faculty Development program |
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Length:
Half-day |
Helping New Faculty Members Get Off to a Good
Start: A Workshop for Administrators and Mentors |
| Robert Boice has shown that
most new faculty members take roughly four years to become reasonably
productive in research and effective in teaching. Appropriate
mentoring and support can help new faculty members become what Boice
calls "Quick Starters," reaching full productivity and effectiveness
in 1-2 years. Mentoring is itself a skilled and complex craft,
however, and when poorly done it may do more harm than good. This
workshop is designed to help administrators and senior faculty members
develop effective support programs for their new faculty, increasing
the likelihood that they will become quick starters. Instructors:
Dr. Richard Felder, Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical
Engineering, North Carolina State University and Dr. Rebecca Brent,
Co-director of the SUCCEED Faculty Development program |
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Half-day |
Career Development Workshop for New Faculty |
| New engineering faculty are
required to make many choices that affect their academic career and
personal life. This session is intended to encourage faculty to
identify suitable career goals and specific objectives and begin to
develop a plan for achieving them. The components of the NSF Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) program will be used as a model for
developing a plan. Elements of a career plan will include:
establishing a research program, developing into an effective teacher,
understanding the university environment, balancing your life,
developing as a professional, and managing your time. Critical issues
will be discussed and advice from peers and senior faculty will be
shared. Instructors: Dr. Tim Anderson, Professor and Chair of
Chemical Engineering, University of Florida and Director of SUCCEED |
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Length:
2 hours |
Establishing Trust in Educational Research |
| Excellence in the use of
assessment appears in pockets at most institutions and is not the norm
for most programs. This workshop addresses the barriers to the
development of assessment strategies and the use of results within
Engineering Education, the culture of assessment and how that culture
interacts with norms of organizational trust. It offers strategies for
discovering solutions to develop and create that trust.
Instructors: Dr. Joseph Hoey, Director of Assessment, Georgia Tech
and Dr. Eleanor Nault, Director of Assessment, Clemson University |
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2-4 hours |
Planning the Assessment of Engineering Education
Research |
| This workshop is for faculty
that are working for positive change in their classroom who want to
think more about how to study that change and report it. This will be
particularly useful for faculty that would like to study educational
innovation with the same rigor they apply to their engineering
research. Faculty will develop a model assessment plan in order to
prepare them to develop a similar plan for their own research.
Instructors: Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Assistant Professor of General
Engineering, Clemson University |
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Length:
2 hours |
Structuring and Unifying Employer Feedback in a
College of Engineering |
| Getting a clear picture of
the strengths and needs for improvement of an institution's graduates
is perhaps the most important goal in any program that seeks to gather
employer alumni feedback. A basic problem in such assessment relates
to variety of data sources and types of feedback used to appraise
employability of an institution's graduates. Even if there are
multiple sources of feedback data, the feedback sources frequently do
not provide information that be understood, interpreted, or that forms
a cohesive pattern of evidence. To address this problem, have
developed a structured process to unify sources of feedback the
employability of graduates colleges of engineering. In this workshop
you will learn about collection methods and instruments for gathering
feedback from employers of full time and co-op students.
Instructors: Dr. Joseph Hoey, Director of Assessment and Dr. Jack
Marr, Professor of Psychology, Georgia Tech |
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2 hours |
Using Focus Groups to Gather Employer Information |
| The Accreditation Board for
Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires all accredited engineering
schools to make assessments of the capabilities of their engineering
program graduates. One suggested source of program outcome assessment
data is feedback from employers concerning the work performance of
engineering graduates. This workshop describes a protocol that
engineering faculty can use to plan and conduct focus group sessions
with corporate recruiters coming to their campuses. Instructors:
Dr. Michael S. Leonard, Professor of Industrial Engineering, Clemson
University |
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Pseudo-Asynchronous Distance Education Delivery |
| The purpose of this workshop
is to assist faculty in the development of engineering courses for
combined in-class and offline/distance delivery. Modern communication
technology provides opportunities for improving course organization
and efficiency, creating audio-enhanced content delivery (including
interactive and self-evaluative student experiences) and revising
faculty and student interaction. Details of these generic improvement
features are demonstrated with existing applications that use an
easily learned, commercial multi-media development product.
Interactive assistance will be provided so attendees may plan the
development process for a course of their choosing. Instructors:
Dr. Carl F. Zorowski, Reynolds Emeritus Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, North Carolina State University and Dr. Thomas H. Brown,
Faculty Associate, Institute for Transportation Research and
Education, North Carolina State University |
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2 hours |
Introduction to Synchronized Streaming Media |
| Abstract: In this hands-on
workshop, participants will gain a basic understanding of technical
and pedagogical concepts involved in creating and distributing
synchronized streaming media lectures. Using PowerPoint presentation
slides of their own course material, participants will build a
synchronized multimedia project from beginning to end. Attendees will
also hear about the best practices in both the development process as
well as the pedagogical approaches to using these presentations.
Instructor: Dr. Joe Tront, Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Virginia Tech |
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2 hours |
Developing Synchronized Streaming Media
Presentations |
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Introduction to Synchronized Streaming Media, this workshop will be a
hands-on environment where attendees will learn how to develop longer
SSM presentations, place them on a local server and make them
available for use over the web. Participants will need a laptop with a
CD-ROM drive in order to load software. Instructors: Dr. Joe
Tront, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech |
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3 hours |
Introduction to Evaluating, Selecting and Using
Computer Enhanced Learning Technologies and Digital Learning Materials
in Engineering Education |
| This workshop is targeted to
faculty who are interested in using computer based learning
technologies and digital learning materials in their courses. The
purpose of the workshop is to introduce faculty to a set of criteria
and methods useful in determining the utility of technologies and
materials in helping them achieve their course goals. The workshop
will focus on the different resources, including digital libraries,
and research available for faculty to use to locate and select helpful
computer based materials, as well as on how to evaluate those
materials. The participants will be introduced to various courseware
and learning technologies and a set of selection criteria.
Instructors: Dr. Joe Tront, Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Virginia Tech; Dr. Brandon Muramatsu, Project Director,
SMETE.ORG, University of California, Berkeley; and Dr. Flora McMartin,
Evaluation Director, SMETE.ORG/NEEDS, University of California,
Berkeley |
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3 hours |
A Practitioner's Guide to Evaluating, Selecting
and Using Computer Enhanced Learning Technologies and Digital Learning
Materials in Engineering Education |
| For those people who have
completed Introduction to Evaluating, Selecting and Using Computer
Enhanced Learning Technologies and Digital Learning Materials in
Engineering Education, this workshop will provide participants with
hands-on experience with applying the criteria and processes for
selecting courseware introduced in the first section of this workshop.
They will have the opportunity to interact with various digital
learning materials and learning technologies and test them against a
set of selection criteria. Additionally, participants will have the
opportunity to explore different methods of adapting existing
materials and learn about developing their own. Instructors:
Dr. Joe Tront, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Virginia Tech; Dr. Brandon Muramatsu, Project Director, SMETE.ORG,
University of California, Berkeley; and Dr. Flora McMartin, Evaluation
Director, SMETE.ORG/NEEDS, University of California, Berkeley |
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Implementation of a Laptop Program |
| Abstract: This workshop will
give an overview of the planning and implementation of a college or
university level laptop program including the following topics:
planning committee, vendor and hardware selection, communication with
students and parents, software image, student orientation and student
workshops, faculty development, courses where laptops are a good fit,
and technical support. Instructors: Ms. Laurie Sherrod,
Laptop Program Manager and Dr. Bill Moss, Professor of Mathematical
Sciences, Clemson University |
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| In Addition to the workshops
offered by SUCCEED, our colleagues from Foundation, Gateway and
Greenfield coalitions have developed workshops on the following topics
that are also available to interested campuses. These workshops may be
presented in conjunction with SUCCEED workshops or separately. |
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Teaching Effectiveness |
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Curriculum Development |
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Student Success and Development |
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Faculty Development |
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Assessment |
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Technology in Education |
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For more information about the Foundation Coalition workshops:
www.foundationcoaltion.org
For more information about the Gateway Coalition workshops:
www.gatewaycoalition.org
For more information about the Greenfield Coalition workshops:
www.greenfield-coalition.org
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The workshops and seminars
developed by the coalitions are available free of charge to interested
campuses. Multiple workshops can be selected to provide a full day of
activity. The traditional format is three 2-hour workshops, however
other formats can be arranged.
Host schools are asked to provide a local liaison, a suitable
location, audiovisual equipment, lunch and refreshments, and publicity
about the workshops to engineering faculty from the host and nearby
schools. The sponsoring coalition will cover the costs associated with
bringing the workshops to your campus and all materials.
To arrange for workshops on your campus, please fill out the form
at www.SucceedNow.org/orderworkshops
or send the following information to SUCCEED by mail, e-mail, or
telephone.
- Contact name
- Institution
- Contact telephone
- E-mail address
- Workshop(s) you are interested in hosting
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SUCCEED
University of Florida
PO Box 116134
Gainesville, FL 32611-6134
E-mail: succeed@che.ufl.edu
Telephone: (352)392-4000
www.SucceedNow.org/orderworkshops |
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