Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Josh Ramey, Colorado School of Mines; Judy Schoonmaker, Colorado School of Mines; Sarah M. Ryan, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

introductory biology course into an active learningexperience that resonates with a wide range of undergraduate students. Backward course designled to an innovative curriculum that (1) is based on biology’s big ideas, (2) has measurablelearning outcomes, and (3) encourages development of higher order thinking skills. Our studioclassroom design maximizes interactions; cantilevered workstations distributed throughout theroom encourage student-instructor and student-student interactions. Group discussions occur atwhiteboards as students solve problems, create concept maps, plan experiments and interpretexperimental data. Workstation computers and dual monitors support whole-class instruction aswell as student-led group explorations. The classroom design

Conference Session

Outreach, recruiting, and retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Evan Curtis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

beadapted to meet the unique characteristics and motivations of students enrolled in AE or BEdegree programs. For example, course instructors can connect theoretical course content to real-world examples. Meeting the challenges of a growing world population will require broadeningparticipation in agriculture and biological engineering. Promoting the potential of these fields tosolve real-world challenges related to food, water, energy and healthcare will help inspire thenext generation of agricultural and biological engineers to meet these needs.IntroductionThe fields of agricultural and biological engineering represent a distinct facet of engineeringapplied to living things (1). Growing from agricultural engineering in the early 1900s, programsnow

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammara Ramírez Apud L., Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Judith Virginia Gutierrez Cuba; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

order to further promote them and help students detect, bymeans of specific argumentation scaffolds during problem solving17, inconsistencies in theirargumentations due to inadequate premises. Hence, in this work we built several PSLEs forsubsequent semesters to further engage and support students in learning how to solve problemsby practicing solving problems5.MethodologyPSLEs were developed by following the design activities proposed by Jonassen2: 1) first weinteracted with the instructors of the studied courses to identify and articulate problems relevantto the discipline; 2) working with corresponding instructor, we analyzed problems, first bycreating a causal model of the problem space; then we conducted an activity theory analysis