Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tara Gupte Wilson, Wright State University; Ashley Nicole Venturini, Ohio State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

and graduateteaching assistant. Student reflections are a selection of comments submitted anonymously viathe university’s end-of-term Student Evaluation of Instruction surveys.Instructor reflection:The transition of this thermodynamics course to online learning went surprisingly well. Coursecontents (e.g., syllabus, schedule, PowerPoint files, assignments, and other resources) werealready well organized within the university’s Canvas-based Learning Management System(LMS). The course also already used a McGraw Hill eTextbook with adaptive e-Learningreading comprehension questions (LearnSmart) and online AI-graded homework sets (McGrawHill Connect); these features were particularly helpful for the newly online course deliverysystem. Students

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John J. Classen, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Alison V. Deviney, Biological and Agricultural Department, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Engineering Education, 2021Systems Thinking Tools in a Graduate Biological Engineering Class - A Work in Progress Author and AffiliationsAbstractWhen technological challenges involve complex systems that include interactions with othercomponents or agents, the system can exhibit unexpected and counterintuitive behavior. Systemsthinking is useful in such cases but is rarely taught in engineering courses that do not explicitlyinclude ‘systems’ or ‘systems dynamics’ in the syllabus. This work-in-progress describes anapplication of systems thinking concepts in an undergraduate and a graduate course inAgricultural Waste Management at North Carolina State University. Two specific systemsthinking tools were introduced to help