How can students be actively involved in class, even if there are 200 of them in the room? What has the research shown regarding the effectiveness of cooperative learning? What are productive ways to involve students in teams in lecture, laboratory, and project courses? How should engineering curricula be structured?
These are some of the topics that will be tackled in a series of workshops and seminars on increasing effectiveness of teaching in engineering on Feb. 5 and 6. The workshops will cover active and cooperative learning at the university level; peer review of teaching; and engineering education in 2010. They will be held at the Paradise Creek Conference Center, at the Quality Inn in Pullman, and in ETRL 101 on the WSU campus.
Presenters will be Richard M. Felder, Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering North Carolina State University, and Rebecca Brent, Ed.D. President, Education Designs, Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Education, East Carolina University. Felder and Brent have presented well over 100 workshops and seminars to primarily engineering and science faculties on effective teaching, course design, mentoring and supporting new faculty members, and faculty development on campuses throughout the United States and in Europe, Asia, South America, and South Africa. They co-direct and facilitate the annual National Effective Teaching Institute under the auspices of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Pre-registration is required for the workshops. For further information, call Diana Thornton, Department of Chemical Engineering, 509/335-4332.
The event is co-sponsored by The Washington State University Office of Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; College of Engineering and Architecture and Associated Departments; Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology; and the University of Idaho Chemical Engineering Department.
