Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Silvia Husted, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

development processes in thestudied Design and Development of Food Products and Processes capstone course2-5.Assessment of creativity was grounded on the Consensual Assessment Technique6 (CAT), whichis based on the idea that the best measure of creativity regardless of what is being evaluated, isthe assessment by experts in that field. Therefore, a group of experts in the FE field were invitedto evaluate capstone course final projects and developed food products by means of the CreativeThinking VALUE Rubric, which is made up of a set of attributes that are common to creativethinking across disciplines1, 7. Possible performance levels were entitled capstone or exemplar(value of 4), milestones (values of 3 or 2), and benchmark (value of 1). Instructor

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann D. Christy, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

bioenergy, biological engineering, capstone design, HVAC, thermodynamics, waste management, and professional development. Ann was the chair of her department’s academic affairs committee for ten years, over- seeing their undergraduate programs in engineering, construction systems management, and agricultural systems management. She has won multiple teaching awards at the departmental, college, university, and national levels. She is experienced with undergraduate program assessment and accreditation, having served both the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission and the American Council for Construc- tion Education as a program accreditation evaluator. She leads an extension program called ”Barn Again” about the