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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abby M Kelly, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; David Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Roger Michael Hoy, University of Nebraska; Evan Curtis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Angela Kaye Pannier, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Richard R. Stowell P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Biological & Agricultural

of the assignments, and the way in which student designs were evaluated, ascompared to the exercise at Bucknell University.RDC durationTo address the challenges of slow-paced, non-technical lectures, as well as the issue of time andproject management, we gave students just two weeks to complete the RDC (See Figure 1 for anexample timeline). Getting through all the major phases of design in only two weeks makes theexperience more challenging for students, gives a sense of urgency to what might be consideredslow-paced lectures, helps students to remain on schedule, and heightens the need for efficientproject planning and management of time and personnel.Figure 1: Two-week rapid design challenge schedule for Fall 2012 semesterAssignments

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo, National Taiwan University; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

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Biological & Agricultural

and Rus7 , and Bishop etal.8 . Since Spring 2010, the first author9 had been teaching a project-based robotics course forsenior engineering students at the University of Georgia (UGA) based on “Smart Teaching”principles from the book “How Learning Works” by Ambrose et al.10. In the Summer 2010, hehad the opportunity to visit the Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering Department of NationalTaiwan University (NTU) whereas a mutual interest in teaching robotics to undergraduatesemerged from discussions as a means of collaboration at the instructor and student levels.Considering the current trend of Open Courseware such as Coursera and EdX and various on-line universities such as Udacity, we took some planning steps in Fall 2011 to prepare for

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chehra Aboukinane; Daniel N. Moriasi, USDA-ARS; Ann L. Kenimer, Texas A&M University; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

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Biological & Agricultural

, distance education, learner-centered instructional design, delivery strategies, technological change, and international agriculture development and education.James Linder, Texas A&M University Dr. James Lindner is a professor at Texas A&M University, He earned his bachelor’s and M.B.A. from Auburn University and Ph.D. from Ohio State University. His research focuses on planning and needs assessment, distance education, international development, and research measurement and analysis. Page 23.613.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Fostering Creativity in