Mechanical Engineering Building Blocks to Success

Introduction

• Amy Magas

Purpose

• Purpose: To enhance communication between faculty and students on courses and curriculum

• Given: Develop a student-centered, internet-based educational information processing system

Goals

• Convey course information

• Promote active learning

• Promote ISU standards

• Provide feedback

• Promote standard rubrics

• Engage and encourage high school students

• Involve industry

• Link research and education

• Increase diversity

Our Groups

• Rubrics

• Base Groups

• Courses

• Curriculum

• Coordinators

Coordinator Group

• To take on a leadership role within MEBBS

• To develop a standard and professional format for webpages

• To keep our professors informed about our individual groups

• To take an active role in helping with our groups

• To help our individual groups to meet their goals.

• To convey suggestions from faculty to students

• To make sure other students learn how to use and evaluate web pages.

Skills Acquired

• Leadership

• Organization

• Resourcefulness

• Web Design

• Departmental Issues

Topics

• Rubrics

• Curriculum

• Courses

• Base Groups

Rubrics

• David Harrington

• Wee-Han Tan

• Adam Gudenkauf

What are Rubrics?

• Guide and Assessment Tool

• Criteria Listed

• Example of Basic Rubric

Why Have Rubrics?

• Outlines Grading

• Illustrates Expectations

• Encourages Higher Standards

Advantages

• Clear Expectations

• Consistent and Unbiased Grading

• Scale to Show Progress

• For Any Assignment

• Reusable

Rubric Examples

• Oral Presentations

• Research Papers

• Journal Writing

• Class Participation

• Homework Assignments

• Class Outline

• Math Journal

Easy to Use and Create

• Basic Method

• Links Page– Ten Step Method– Templates– Software Links

What We Have Learned

• Value of Rubrics

• HTML

• Group Project Management

Curriculum Information

• Introduction

• Flow Chart

• Course Topics

• Curriculum Feedback

Course Webpages

• Tom Duncan

General Overview

• Advantages

• Convenience

• Speed

• Accessibility

• Reusability

• Design of Pages

• Standard Format

• Professor Designed

• Student Oriented

• Ease of Navigation

• Development Time

Skills Acquired

• HTML Knowledge

• Network Speed

• ME Department Classes

• Networking

Examples

• Index of Classes

• Professor Molian’s ME322 Page

Recommendations

• “Recycling”

• One Student, One Professor

Base Groups

• Yoong-Guan Chen

• Martin Kurnadi

Base Groups

• History

Basic Elements of Cooperative Learning

• Positive Interdependence - “Sink or Swim”• Face-to-Face Interaction - Students help and encourage

each other• Individual Accountability - Giving the comments back

to the group on individual performance• Small Group Skills - Leadership and communication

help group to work effectively• Group Processing - Groups to evaluate if they are

achieving their goals and maintaining effective working relationships.

Webpage Elements

• Opinions

• Minutes Form

• Feedback from Students

• Feedback from Professors

Conclusion

• Cards

• Website

• In the future