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Allison Kipple; Dieter Otte

101 Work in Progress: Blending Contemporary Research in Sustainability and Fundamental Skills for Graduate Success into a Team-Taught, Introductory Graduate Course Allison Kipple and Dieter Otte Northern Arizona UniversityAbstractA team-taught graduate course titled, “EGR501: Topics in Sustainability” is required for allstudents pursuing a Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.) degree at Northern ArizonaUniversity. In the past, the course tended toward a seminar presentation style, with minimaltechnical depth and a light work load for the

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Devlin Montfort; Shane Brown

Education 334the explanatory and predictive power of their understanding. Synthetic models are key tounderstanding why it is more difficult to acquire conceptual understanding. Vosniadou writes,“[w]e argue that many science concepts are difficult to learn because they are embedded withinscientific framework that violate fundamental principles of the naïve, framework theory ofphysics within which everyday physics concepts are subsumed” 12.Chi’s Types of LearningMichelene Chi’s describes three types of learning that are of key importance in scienceeducation: belief revision, mental model transformation and categorical shift 14. Chi states thatbelief

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Kenneth W. Santarelli

newgraduates from other areas difficult. The model that is evolving provides only upper divisioninstruction from the degree granting institution. Upper division instruction is provided through theuse of interactive live-broadcast lectures and classes that combine students from the distant and maincampus locations. A regional university center hosts the laboratories required for upper divisionstudents and is centrally located with respect to the population distribution. This approach requiresthe development of partnerships with the region’s community colleges to provide the explicit lowerdivision curriculum that students require to meet their degree objectives.This paper will describe the model in its current state of evolution and report on its

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J. S. Shelley P.E.

classwanted the Elluminate sessions to continue even after broadcast capability in the studioclassroom was restored.The motivation for writing this paper is three-fold. First, after streaming the dynamics class outof necessity, I discovered I liked it and preferred it to broadcast. Study and introspection iscontinuing to determine why streaming was preferable to broadcast. Second, recognizing thispreference, and noting that about a third of the students also share this preference, questions arisethat must be answered to determine the appropriate role for streaming content in a standardEngineering curriculum. Third is a recognition that fundamental assumptions made in previousresearch are in error. That research effort needed to be concluded and a new

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A.M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

344 The Relationship between Self Efficacy, Critical Thinking, Grades, and the Quality of First Year Engineering Students A.M. Vollstedt and E. L. Wang University of Nevada, RenoAbstractIt is hypothesized that four qualities including strong content knowledge, good critical thinkingskills, high self efficacy, and a high cognitive thinking level define a successful student. In aneffort to increase these qualities in first year engineering students at the University of Nevada,Reno, new course content was developed for a pair of first-year classes, which also

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........................................................................................................................................... 76“The Dismantling of the Engineering Education Pipeline” Amelito Enriquez, Kate Disney, & Erik Dunmire .................................................................................... 88“Blending Contemporary Research in Sustainability and Fundamental Skills for Graduate Success into a Team Taught, Introductory Graduate Course”* Allison Kipple & Dieter Otte .................................................................................................................. 101“Remembering the Past to Inform the Future: Engineering and the Holocaust” Marilyn A. Dyrud.................................................................................................................................... 103Session RR: Recruitment and

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John M. Murray; Roger A. Greener; Heong-seok Kim; William T. Murray

(men, birds), the four-leggeds, nations thatspring from the ground, and those that live in the water. Even the rocks and stars are worthy ofrespect11-20. Education can play an important role in illuminating this integrated worldview byexpanding our circle of understanding and action to include complex, self-organizing,interdependent systems, inspiring a sense of place through holistic, regional study, andintroducing ourselves to the land.Understanding the energy basis for man and nature21-24 is equally fundamental to sustainability inthe wild, rapidly changing American West since, over the long term, the biogeosphere mustoperate primarily on renewable solar, tidal, and deep earth energies. These bountiful energiesmanifest themselves in