Conference Session

History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

.‘One More Thing’ was tailored to prompt further discussion during the Q&A sessionimmediately following an ‘AppTalk’. For this activity a student was assigned to share a topicarticle immediately following an ‘AppTalk’. The topic was directly relevant to the presentationpreceding the activity. ‘One More Thing’ often yielded a useful discussion for the students orgenerated more involved questions for the presenter. The activity was intended to avoid thepassive atmosphere for the audience by assisting students to engage.Based on the activities described above, scientific journal articles were a primary resource forthese assignments. Therefore success in these assignments was heavily dependent on thestudents’ ability to read journal articles