Mechanical Engineering Building Blocks to Success

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Mechanical Engineering Building Blocks to Success
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Introduction

• Amy Magas

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Purpose

• Purpose To enhance communication between
  faculty and students on courses and curriculum
• Given Develop a student-centered,
  internet-based educational information processing
  system

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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

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Our Groups

• Rubrics
• Base Groups
• Courses
• Curriculum
• Coordinators

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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.

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Skills Acquired

• Leadership
• Organization
• Resourcefulness
• Web Design
• Departmental Issues

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Topics

• Rubrics
• Curriculum
• Courses
• Base Groups

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Rubrics

• David Harrington
• Wee-Han Tan
• Adam Gudenkauf

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What are Rubrics?

• Guide and Assessment Tool
• Criteria Listed
• Example of Basic Rubric

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Why Have Rubrics?

• Outlines Grading
• Illustrates Expectations
• Encourages Higher Standards

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Advantages

• Clear Expectations
• Consistent and Unbiased Grading
• Scale to Show Progress
• For Any Assignment
• Reusable

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Rubric Examples

• Oral Presentations
• Research Papers
• Journal Writing
• Class Participation
• Homework Assignments
• Class Outline
• Math Journal

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Easy to Use and Create

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

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What We Have Learned

• Value of Rubrics
• HTML
• Group Project Management

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Curriculum Information

• Introduction
• Flow Chart
• Course Topics
• Curriculum Feedback

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Course Webpages

• Tom Duncan

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General Overview

• Advantages
• Convenience
• Speed
• Accessibility
• Reusability
• Design of Pages

• Standard Format
• Professor Designed
• Student Oriented
• Ease of Navigation
• Development Time

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Skills Acquired

• HTML Knowledge
• Network Speed
• ME Department Classes
• Networking

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Examples

• Index of Classes
• Professor Molians ME322 Page

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Recommendations

• Recycling
• One Student, One Professor

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Base Groups

• Yoong-Guan Chen
• Martin Kurnadi

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Base Groups

• History

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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.

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Webpage Elements

• Opinions
• Minutes Form
• Feedback from Students
• Feedback from Professors

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Conclusion

• Cards
• Website
• In the future