Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

the Fallsemester of 2001, a new ENGR0081 was enacted and linked to the first semester EngineeringAnalysis course ENGR0011. By linking the academic and advising courses, ENGR0081would now be a course in which lectures would provide information needed by the studentsto complete assignments in other courses.The syllabus of the ENGR0081 lecture sessions looks basically the same under both the newdesign and the old design. The major change is a linking of E/FEWP assignments fromENGR0011 with content and activities from ENGR0081, see Figure 1. ENGR0011 writingassignments require that students research their intended fields of engineering, discoveringand analyzing what engineers in various disciplines undertake and produce as well as whatthe ongoing

Conference Session

The 2017 Zone Best Paper Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eileen Haase Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Harry R. Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

over 32,000 times, an average of 232 views perstudent during one semester of Molecules and Cells.The Blackboard course site and syllabus links provide access to over 100 videos, animations, andsimulations. The videos are generally under five minutes and give the student a quick firstexposure to the terms and concepts which will be covered in more depth during the lecture.Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUBased on survey data, 30% of the students took advantage of these online resources. Thesimulations on Blackboard allowed students to work through multiple scenarios, such as theeffect of varying concentrations of an enzyme inhibitor on product formation, or the effect ofglucose on activation of the lac operon. We