Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marybeth Lima, Louisiana State University; Nicholas Patrick Totaro, Louisiana State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

community need.These efforts were supported by the university-wide programs Communication Across theCurriculum, CxC (http://www.lsu.edu/academicaffairs/cxc/), which focuses on oral, written,technical, and visual communication skills, and the Center for Community Engagement,Learning, and Leadership (http://www.lsu.edu/academicaffairs/ccell/). Today, BE 1251 isdesignated by the university as communication intensive (technical and visual). BE 1252 isdesignated by the university as communication intensive (written and visual) and service-learning. There is a plan underway (see Future plans for details) to offer BE 1251 as a service-learning course.Increasing collaboration among instructorsThe faculty is collegial and long-term instructors of these

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Banner, North Carolina State University; John J. Classen, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

. Thetechnologies considered were a flush system versus ascraper system (which could be operated to collectwhole slurry or separate liquids and solids) for wastecollection, an existing lagoon for waste storage, acovered lagoon for waste treatment and an ammoniastripping column for nitrogen recovery. In addition tobuilding upon their previous course knowledge (wastetreatment, nutrient management, economic andenvironmental modeling, and technologies for resourcerecovery) the students were provided with a technicalreport which contained site-specific farm dataincluding soil maps/plots, a nutrient management plan,waste characteristics for different scenarios, andbudget sheets. It was important that all informationnecessary to complete the game was either

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University; Amy L. Kaleita, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

multiple datapoints, had determined that a major revision of the course was warranted, and we had agreed tolead this effort and redevelop the course. Complicating our plans for the Y3NM course werespace constraints that arose just weeks before the semester started – we had 50 students enrolledin the course but had teaching lab space for only 40, and due to campus-wide record enrollments,could not find a suitable lecture room to accommodate a joint lecture session. Again, thepossibility of video lectures was appealing, in this case because it would allow us to circumventthe lack of a large lecture room, transferring that function to a location of each student’s ownchoosing, and letting us focus instruction on two lab sections.Materials and

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Peterson P.E., University of Wisconsin, River Falls; Matthew Francis Digman, University of Wisconsin, River Falls

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

-regulate bymaintaining a common in-class schedule and suggested due dates.There are, however, several potential issues related to a flexible deadline approach. The first isthe planning fallacy, where learners underestimate the time it takes to complete a task [3]. Ifflexible deadlines are in place, students may not undertake the requisite self-regulating strategiesin order to complete the assignments. Another potential issue with relaxed deadlines is thetendency for students to mass (cram) their work in very few study episodes just before thetasks(s) are due. Citing several works, Fulton et al. [3] note that distribution of practice (i.e.,more frequent deadlines) results in better performance across a wide range of tasks.In our experience