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

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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

Outreach, recruiting, and retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alicia A. Modenbach P.E., University of Kentucky; Sue E. Nokes, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

this proposed arrangement is four-fold. (1) Students will be preparedto make a more informed decision regarding their selected area of specialization, leading to amore straightforward path to graduation. (2) Content will preview topics and information thatstudents will see again in upper-level engineering courses, providing a scaffold framework to aidin their transition to becoming more autonomous and engaged learners. (3) Students willpractice working with open-ended problems in a low-stakes environment, building theirconfidence for making sound engineering decisions. (4) Students will begin developing aportfolio of design experiences in a variety of areas to draw upon as they progress through thecurriculum, leading to a broader, systems

Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marybeth Lima P.E., Louisiana State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

100(1): A-27.Lima, M. 2013. Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities: Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press.216 p.Lima, M., and W. Oakes. 2013. Service-Learning: Engineering in Your Community. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. 336p.Passino, Kevin M. 2016. Humanitarian Engineering: Advancing Technology for Sustainable Development. 3rd edition, Bede Publishing, Columbus, Ohio, 785 pages Ward, Andy D., Kerry Hughes Zwierschke, Carol Moody, and Ann D. Christy. 2007. Developing Sustainable Solutions for Impoverished Communities in South Africa: A Student Centered and Service Learning Capstone Design Experience." American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual Meeting. ASABE Paper

Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann D.. Christy, Ohio State University; Oladiran Fasina, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

by grades on their portfolioassignments over four years are summarized in Figure 1. The average annual score did not fallbelow 80% on any outcome, reflecting the fact that these were materials specifically selected bythe student to show their mastery of the appropriate learning outcome, and that many of thesematerials had already received instructor feedback in the courses for which they were initiallysubmitted. 100% Meangradeforportfoliosection 95% 90% Year1 85

Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Foutz P.E., University of Georgia; Christopher Ward

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Biological & Agricultural

, provides the foundationof the investigation outlined in this manuscript(Nussbaum, 2008). A form of discourse found inmultiple fields of education primarily due to itsrelationship with critical and higher order thinkingand argumentation supports  articulating the reason for approaching a Figure 1. The general structure of Toulmin’s problem in a particular way, framework that provides a logical process for  justifying the approach using data and/or analyzing how a student constructs an information to support the reasoning, and argument and for determining how the  providing the principles that establish

Conference Session

Outreach, recruiting, and retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deepak R. Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Ryan Drew Anderson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jeyamkondan Subbiah P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Ashu Guru, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Nathan C. Rice, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Biological & Agricultural

largest crop grown byfarmers in the Midwest according to USDA (2016). In addition to food production, corn grain isused for ethanol production, feeding livestock, and the distillers grains from the ethanol plantsare high value feed for the beef cattle industry. The FEW Nexus is briefly illustrated in Figure 1.The system as a whole interacts with the environment through the use of water, energy, andemission associated with the various processes in the system. Teaching students how thesesystems work and how they are connected will greatly influence upcoming generations ofagricultural producers and consumers. Being mindful of the larger system will encouragesustainable practices that are more aware of the environmental impacts of their decisions

Conference Session

Outreach, recruiting, and retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Biological & Agricultural

– whichallowed grouping students into multiple risk categories based upon a small set of pre-enrollmentdata – with our insights into key success predictor courses. Specifically: What grades, onaverage, do different risk category students earn, in each of our key success prediction courses?A related question was as follows: To what degree are students in each risk category achievingthe success threshold grade in the key courses? We believed that answering these questionsmight help us better support at-risk students in multiple ways, including (1) providing data-basedadvice on which courses to focus on; (2) providing insight into how course scheduling mightimpact performance (by comparing first vs. second semester performance in key courses); (3)helping

Conference Session

Outreach, recruiting, and retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Foutz P.E., University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

24,000 acres in 2007 with almost all of this change occurring on the western 1/3 portion of the county. The eastern half of the county remained rural, and agribusiness was the primary business. Taking advantage of this situation, a local developer designed a subdivision adjacent to an active dairy farm where the residents of the subdivision could use part of the farm for gardening and could purchase milk and produce from the farmer.Ten first-year first-semester students who enrolled in this FYOS course were asked to use thiscase study and develop hypothetical Farming Subdivision. The Farming Subdivision was to bea large single-family housing community where the residents became the actual owners andoperators of a farming operation. The