Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Jane Leung, University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

impacts of their work as professional engineers. The design challenges arestructured to take advantage of the large class size through project management trainingand multi-faceted project outcomes.The Capstone project for the 2009/2010 academic year is a collaboration with TheMustardSeed (hereafter MS), a non-profit outreach group that runs shelters, food andclothing banks and education and retraining programs for the homeless. The partnershipis aimed at assisting the MS’s educational division with GED studies and life skills. Asmany of the clients of the MS have difficulties with focus and with understanding andrelating to material, the students’ challenge will be to use their engineering knowledge todevelop physical or computer-based aids

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emilia Bratschitsch, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Annette Casey, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

. They are strongly interested in getting the best education they can.The main challenge in the coming years will be to cope with the area of conflict – deliveringconsistently high quality, while experiencing worsening conditions and rising costs.From our point of view the next steps should be a re-design of our degree program with aview to reducing the students’ workload and clearing outdated content out. We also aim toestablish optimum conditions for efficient project-based-learning. In addition, we need tocomplete our research into the reasons behind the high drop-out rate and implementcountermeasures. Finally, further harmonization of assessment criteria of external and internallecturers is also essential.AcknowledgmentsOur special thanks go

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Joseph, Pace University; Mabel Payne, Consultant

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

one disciplinary domain and the academic discipline is viewed as the other domain. In thiscontext, the issue is one of determining how best to align academic disciplinary learning with therelated work place practices for the student to adequately and sufficiently integrate theory withpractice, being mindful of the limits of any possible integration. That is, theory learnt may haveno current practical application or it may have several practical applications depending on itscontextual interpretation. Similarly, the practical application may have no sound theory or it maybe fully or partially described by a theory. Page 15.83.3Myers and

Conference Session

Culture, Society, and Co-op

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Jenkins-Stark, Iridescent; Tara Chklovski, Iridescent

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

objectives, design learner-directed experiments and assesslearning (figure 1). Topics are chosen based on participating engineers’ research and experienceTwo well established lesson plan approaches are utilized: the Learning Cycles lesson approach22and Inquiry-based instruction23. Engineers practice teaching using few technical terms, real-world analogies and multi-media to ensure understanding for audiences with limited education.Engineers learn to use assessment practices such as graphic organizers to ensure families makesignificant knowledge gains24. Engineers also design a pre/post assessment in order to measuretheir effectiveness. Weekly preparation includes a reading assignment, instruction planning andreflective practice. Engineers are