Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Merton Stwalley III, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

interest inthe ongoing activities of the agricultural industry. These exercises will incorporateoff-road vehicle balance and design elements, robotics and programming, andunmanned aircraft systems and instrumentation. These lessons will be piloted at acareer center run jointly by three local public school corporations, near theuniversity. Details of the lesson planning strategy, physical lab activities, andoverall learning objectives will be presented.KeywordsAgricultural Instruction, Hands-on Learning, High School, Lesson Plans, STEMIntroduction Throughout the world, the popular press is currently filled with articles describing theshortage of workers in all segments of industry following the pandemic of 2020-2021. This isparticularly

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Toluwalase Opanuga, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

twenty-eight undergraduateagricultural and biological engineering students’ self-ratings of their proficiency level withlearning objectives following weekly assignments in a process engineering course. Theseresponses, in conjunction with results from the learning-objective based grading of students’work by the teaching assistant were analyzed to determine patterns in students’ learning needs asthe semester progressed. Examples of inferences about students’ struggles that the instructordrew from the results of students' self-ratings and actions that the instructor made or plans to takeare discussed.I. IntroductionUniversity instructors write course learning objectives, and they may even use these as a guide todesigning their instruction as

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmine Carey Balascio P.E., University of Delaware

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

a team whose members together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives.” In view of the positive creative design experience and teamwork training that studioculture provides to architecture, landscape architecture, and art & design students, why notconsider the use of studios in engineering programs?Conversion of Lecture/Lab Format to StudioThe author has taught a variety of engineering, engineering technology, and landscapearchitecture courses in his nearly 40-year career. In 2014, the author’s home Department ofBioresources Engineering, housed in the University of Delaware’s College of Agriculture andNatural Resources was disbanded, and his faculty line was

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lucie Guertault, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Thomas Dalton Stephenson Jr.

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

reflectiveactivities such as discussions.ConclusionData collected by this study has provided our department with a valuable perspective on thelearning preferences of the undergraduate engineering student and faculty populations. While werealize that this was a small sample size, based on the data collected we can conclude from thisdata set that students and faculty exhibit a large variety of learning preferences. A statisticallysignificant difference in the learning preference distributions of faculty and BE students wasfound for the Active/Reflective scale. For the other scales, the populations exhibit similarpreference distributions. Future plans for this study include scaling this study to includeBiological Engineering students, Engineering Technology or

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Jesu Raj Pandya, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

future, the project team plans to conductexperiments with other variations of photoperiod. General observation of the trial indicated thatthe longer photoperiod helped the peanut plants to grow more vigorously with the increasedphotoperiod. The seed inoculation was randomized for each zone in Figures 3a and 3b, locationsdesignated as A indicates inoculated seeds, and B indicate non-inoculated seeds. For both trials,gypsum was added to the soil after the flowering of the plants. The peanuts were hand harvestedroughly five and a half months after planting for both FarmBot beds (April/May –September/October timeframe). The harvest from each plant was counted and weighed.4.0 Harvest Data AnalysisIrrigation was discontinued two weeks before the

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heydi Han, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Hector Palala, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Deepak R. Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

-basedinteractions. However, digital tools have been a good ally for community building andteamwork activities. Students were engaged with the activities in the classroom that includedguest lecture speakers, group discussions, and active participation toward a specific topic duringthe semester. However, data on Canvas shows that all students actively took part in creatingvideos, forum discussions, surveys online, and online group projects when they were asked touse digital tools. As their instructors, we could see their positive participation in digital and in-person modalities planned to increase classroom community and teamwork.We learned that while technology often gets blamed for reducing in person interactions, it canalso be used to facilitate them