As an important indicator of greenhouse gas emissions, the carbon footprint (CF) has become increasingly important in recent years under the dual pressures of global warming and international …
A Combined Strategy of Additive Manufacturing to Support Multidisciplinary Education in Arts, Biology, and Engineering
This research presents results for the design and creation of supporting teaching materials using additive manufacturing. The materials are inspired by selected artwork of four animal species, which …
The Making of the Brave Sheep or … the Laboratory as the Unlikely Space of Attunement to Animal Emotions
Cohen (2003) argued that animals, humans, and objects must be appraised together as they form various, temporary clusters of active beings. In this article, drawing on material semiotics and …
CReST-Security Knitting Kit: Ready to Use Teaching Resources to Embed Security Topics into Upper Division CS Courses (Abstract Only)
Information Assurance and Security has been designated as a new knowledge area in the new ACM/IEEE-CS Curricula 2013. This is not a trivial task to accomplish, especially with lack of resources. With …
Learning Science in Grades 3–8 Using Probeware and Computers: Findings from the TEEMSS II Project
The Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle School Science II project (TEEMSS), funded by the National Science Foundation, produced 15 inquiry-based instructional science units for teaching in …
Pedagogical Fusion: Integration, Student Direction, and Project-Based Learning in a Materials Science-History of Technology Course Block*
Imagine a course block in which students discuss the cultural implications of 17th century iron working in North America in one hour, and design experiments to examine connections between composition …
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING (PjBL) WORKSHEET TO IMPROVE SCIENCE PROCESS SKILL FOR SEVEN GRADERS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN THE TOPIC OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
The science learning process is not only learn how to remember the materials, but also capable in science process skill and apply knowledge in scientific work. Through science process skill in …
Project-Based Science: Engaging Students in Three-Dimensional Learning
The biggest shift in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States 2013) is the focus on students making sense of phenomena or designing solutions to problems by using three-dimensional …
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Guidelines and materials to improve undergraduate teaching in the animal sciences.
Projected Program At the outset of the committee deliberations, we assumed that we were talking about a future program, to be adopted in ten years or more, when high school students might have …
Wayang kulit: A multidisciplinary project for engineering education
In engineering education integrative methods help students to establish the link between various engineering topics as well as enable them to see the relevance of the material being taught in …
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Student difficulties with basic concepts in introductory materials science engineering
We report on findings of a project to identify specific student difficulties in a university-level introductory materials science course for engineers. This is the first part of a larger project to …
Model-Driven Engineering of Serious Objectives for Subject-Specific Topics and Transferable Skills
Educational infrastructures face significant challenges including the need to rapidly, widely, and cost effectively introduce new or revised course material; encourage the broad participation of …