Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalind Wynne, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

presentation demonstratesreflective activities that support the natural connection between the brain structure and thelearning cycle.2 Activities such as reviewing ideas in journaling exercises for a mathematicallyrigorous engineering course will be addressed. These techniques are often limited to design-courses that develop “soft-skills” in engineers. Conventional courses, however, subscribe totraditional teaching methods with fewer opportunities for student reflection. Examples ofunconventional reflective journaling activities employed in an engineering course that addressedmodern physics concepts and semiconductor material topics will be highlighted in this paper.The teaching and learning model for this course was based on the established theory of

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Weber, Lake Superior State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

business majors as part of the teams if possible and/or consult other students/faculty withbackgrounds in environmental and social issues. The effects of such inclusions could then also beanalyzed.6. SummaryHelping students understand broader, non-technical issues, providing opportunities for them todevelop “soft” skills such as researching and presenting information, and facilitating makingconnections between class information and current technology are crucial to student success.This paper has described marketing-based presentations that are designed to do just that. Studentperceptions of the presentations were also summarized in terms of levels of agreement and classconsensus. Based on these results, for the given courses the presentations did