Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Leslie Crowley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

programtargeting the improvement of undergraduate engineering education. Faculty proposed large-scalerenovations of a specific undergraduate course or closely-related group of courses, with the goalof improving student engagement, learning outcomes, and faculty teaching experiences.Alternatively, faculty could propose to develop teaching technologies that would facilitate theimplementation of evidence-based teaching practices. Priority in funding was given to projectsthat would impact large numbers of students or provide critical interventions early in students’learning careers.“Live deep, not fast,” is an admonition coined in the early 1900’s by literature professor, critic,and editor Henry Seidel Canby 1. Faculty participating in SIIP were invited to

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma; Jitesh H. Panchal, Purdue University; Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Innovation Centre, COEP

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

competencies and learning objectives. QW3 and QW4 wereaddressed in this talk. In the globalized environment discussed above, one of the main tasks of aneducator is to prepare engineers who are capable of identifying and solving problems that do notyet exist with tools and methods that have not yet been invented. Hence, there is a need toeducate students to “learn how to learn” and to empower them to take charge of their owneducation. From the students’ perspective, this translates to identifying and obtaining thecompetencies needed to become a valuable asset for a dynamic career. Hence, the first step is tolet the students identify their personal goals for the semester. The objective in this talk was toprovide the participants an understanding of how