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statement.Students strongly disagreed about the idea of using the calculators (70%), MP3’s (80%), or cellphones (79%) to disconnect when the professor or the class is boring, or when they do notunderstand the class.There was a high variability in the times students reported spent in activities like internet,messenger, playing games, or talking in the phone or cell phone. On average students said theyused a laptop to navigate through the internet for approximately 4.2 (SD 2.6) hours daily. Theyuse a messenger system for 3.7 (SD 3.4) hours daily, talk on the phone and cell phone 1.7 (SD Page 12.197.101.9) and 2.3 (SD 2.2) hours daily, respectively. In general, a
), and conducting a facilitateddiscussion with the team about constructing an action plan to deal with the perceived problem(s).This intervention was designed to provide relatively rapid feedback about team functioning, andto help team members understand more fully how individuals can influence the behaviors of theirteammates. However, over a three-semester assessment of this intervention, the conclusion wasthat the teams receiving this brief facilitated reflection-planning intervention did not functionmore effectively overall than those who did not receive this intervention.17 Page 12.266.5 We were (and are still) interested in improving
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focus area. This should lead to the problem(s) that will be addressed inthe presentation. The specific objectives of the work usually are stated in the Introduction.Remember to define any special terminology such as acronyms that will be used.3e. Review of Prior Studies SectionNearly all technical presentations build upon prior studies. Prior studies can be summarized as achronological review of relevant papers, theses, patents, etc., or presented in a table summarizingthe principal contributions. Alternatively, papers can be cited via footnotes, which are helpfulwhen space is limited. Provide a critique at the end of the review of prior studies in which youcritically assess the state-of-the-art. An effective critique should provide strong
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spring 2007 semesters is shown in the tablesbelow. The color coding indicates which tutor had responsibility for which subject(s). Thetutors designated "SI" held joint appointments with B2B and with Supplementary Instruction (SI)programs operating in Physics I, Chemistry I, and Calculus II.Table 1 Typical results demonstrating the effectiveness of tutoring supplemented by mentoring for Physics I in the spring semester. Spring 2006 Comparison of Tutored and Other Engineering Students (SI Class) Course: PHYS 2325 Tutored Group Other Group Total
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even share based on the team size. For each major assignment a correspondingnumber of points was associated with the peer review. Each team member could receive more orless than this point value based on the results of the review. For example, on a team with four students each member should contribute 25% of theworkload. If one team member only contributes 20% of the workload, then that student wouldreceive 80% of the peer review points associated with the assignment. Since this method is azero-sum proposition, other team member(s) on this team would receive more than the allottedpoints because they would have contributed more than their theoretical share of the work. Thiswas a way to provide limited extra credit to those team members who
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of this task has been a stepin the right direction toward engaging students in mathematics used to help solve criticalproblems in applications of interest. Additional tasks are currently under development.For additional information on the Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership, please visit:http://www.math.uab.edu/GBMP/.For additional information on the Mathematics Education Collaborative (MEC), please visit:http://mec-math.org/.References[1] Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership, Five-Year Strategic Plan. July 2006.[2] Blue, C. E., Blevins, L. G., Carriere, P., Gabriele, G., Kemnitzer, S. (Group Leader), Rao, V., and Ulsoy, G., “The Engineering Workforce: Current State, Issues, and Recommendations”. Final Report to the
of engineering students at the varying academic levels. The five main questions guiding this effort were: 1) What are the learning outcomes for these students during this experience? 2) Did this intervention aid in recruiting and retaining engineering students? 3) Did this intervention influence the engineering students to apply and get involved in undergraduate research? 4) Has this intervention influenced the career path of the students (i.e. graduate school or other research position)? 5) Is the intervention more effective at specific academic level(s)? In this effort, we have placed particular emphasis on transferring research to groups under-represented in
depending on the category. Bothpositive and negative student comments were given if both sets of comments existed in thecategory. Some student comments were found to fall into more than one category. If thisoccurred, the comment was coded in both categories.Table 2. Descriptions and examples of categories Category Description Example Statement(s) • [Kind-of interested in the Easy-Stir because] “I’m an artist and I know it had to do with paint and stuff, so…something that I do outside of Chemistry class, Items are
. The department covered theprinting cost of the posters. The posters are currently on display in one of our labs.The final report was an opportunity for the students to document what they have learnedabout their particular topic, describe the details of the algorithm(s) that they haveimplemented, comment on their performance and results, and give conclusions andrecommendations for future work. Students were asked to convey their findings in a clearand concise manner and were given guidelines about the technical report format tofollow.The final project was a very successful aspect of the class. The author tried to expose thestudents to real-world digital image processing applications by asking them to applytheory learned in class to solve
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integral was introduced by Gottfried Leibniz in 1675. The integral Page 12.806.5symbol he used, " ", was derived from an elongated letter S, standing for summa (Latin for "sum"or "total"). Newton was at times a very nasty man. Following the death of Leibniz, Newton isreported to have declared that he had taken great satisfaction in "breaking Leibniz's heart."Newton seemed to be characterized by a lack of publishing for much of his life. This may havebeen due to the fact that he was very sensitive to criticism. For example, the conflict he had withRobert Hooke over optics resulted in his ceasing all publications until after the death of Hooke
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. Page 11.1346.12AcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by the National Science Foundation through grant REC-0238392,Using portfolios to promote knowledge integration in engineering education. The authors wishto thank all members of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education for theinsightful reviews and comments that helped to shape this paper.References1. Lappenbusch, S., & Turns, J. (2005). Finding their place in TC: using a community of practice model to research emerging TC professionals. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Professional Communication, Limerick, Ireland.2. Guan, Z., Yellin, J.M., Turns, J., and Kumar, V. (2005). User-centered design of course-based portfolios for mechanical engineering
(p<0.05) relative to lecture formatfirst PBL unit and with learning overall was generally supported in the student interviews (Table3), although it was also clear that students had difficulty discriminating between student-directedlearning and simply being asked to work in groups. Two of the four students interviewed at the endof the first PBL unit believed the unit was “lecture-based”. Some engineers reported feelingoverwhelmed by the biology course content at the end of the first two units, but it is also possibletheir assessment was colored by a certain temptation to default to the biology student(s) rather thanassume responsibility for the new content. Quiz scores at the end of the second unit did notindicate that the majority of