Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirk D. Dolan, Michigan State University; Yinjie J. Tang, Washington University; Wei Liao, Michigan State University

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Biological & Agricultural

Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. His extension appointment to assist the MI food industry gives opportu- nities to visit many food factories and hold workshops on various food safety issues. His research and teaching are in thermal processing, inverse problems, and parameter estimation under dynamic conditions. He teaches an undergraduate engineering class on biological fluid processing and a graduate engineering class on numerical techniques and parameter estimation using MATLAB.Dr. Yinjie J Tang, Washington University I did my PhD in chemical engineering at University of Washington. I worked on DOE GTL projects during my postdoctoral period in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (with Dr. Jay

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

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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

communicate effectively; (h) the broad educationnecessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic,environmental, and societal context; (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability toengage in life-long learning; and (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues. Often thesenontechnical skills do not receive as much emphasis in undergraduate engineeringeducation and instead must be learned on the job, learning "soft skills the hard way" 2.Opportunities do exist in current engineering curricula to better integrate the developmentof these nontechnical skills into students' experience. These include team projects incapstone design and freshman design courses, engineering study abroad courses, servicelearning projects in both