YouTube extravaganza

Folks, we have had our last class, we shared our videos with the public, and final grades have been uploaded. Thanks so much for a fun semester, and enjoy your final youtube video products, as well as the other pieces of writing you have generated this semester. Good luck in the spring!

The Journey of Engineering Education, by Mark Carnes, Brianna Dorie, Yuchuan Deng, and Jing Chen


The Engineering Education Carol, by Noah Salzman, Preeti Rajendran, Jiabin (Emily) Zhu, and Bethany Fralick


Engineering Education Zone: by Meagan Pollock, Junaid Siddiqui, Sensen Li, and Roy Melton

YouTube tags

For those of you uploading your YouTube videos, please tag it somewhere with "engineering education", and "fall09-ENE-HP".  Those should both help us and help others find it.

Thanks!

Follow-up on Jamieson-Lohmann report

In class today, it seemed as though most people agreed that we should submit the feedback that you generated in class last week. Bri volunteered to champion the writing to submission, and Beth and Junaid agreed to help if we could do this in January. Most people agreed they could help if we did it in January, rather than yet this semester.

It also seemed there was agreement (I hope I read this correctly) in submitting the feedback both online and to Dean Jamieson directly, with perhaps a cover letter prefacing the feedback.

Things to do include

• put together an email list yet this semester
  
• drafting a cover letter
• revising the material written last week to be consistent in format and voice, no bullets etc.
  
• getting everyone's feedback, if it's going to come from the class
• actually submitting the final version. (W00T!)

Robin and I want to offer our availability to look at a draft, but we don't want to block the process, and offer it only if you collectively want our critical eye.  We're also fine if you'd like to just shepherd this through on y'alls own.  We would like a copy of this when you're all done just so we can bask in your amazingness. :-D

COOL.

Week 11 Reading assignments

Folks, here are the reading assignments we made for the readings next week.

Everyone read Reynolds as it came first. :-)

Then,
Bri, Emily, Hanjun, Meagan – Mann (2nd in timeline)
Mark, Beth, Qu, Sensen – Wickenden (3rd in timeline)
Tommy, Noah, Marisol, Roy – Grinter (4th in timeline)
Jing, Preeti, Junaid – Goals (5th in timeline)

Those reading Mann should read (Intro) pages 231-233 (background and Committee info), pg 240-245 (overview of aims/curriculum), pg 268 – 274 (Section VII type of instruction), Part II problems of education pg 276 – 312, solutions of education 314 - 340).

Readings are now posted in Blackboard.

Does the new commenting work?

Disqus has finally fixed their system, and seems to play nicely with Blogger again. Do the threaded comments work again? Let's try them out.... cross your fingers!

Comments sorta working...

Folks -- I returned commenting to the regular unthreaded-unDisqus way until I can figure out what is wrong.  I thought it better to give any semblance of commenting back in the interim so that you can share your comments and thoughts with your colleagues as soon as the mood strikes.  :-)

Until I can get the threading sorted out, when you comment on another person's comment, it's a good idea to refer to their name in your comment.  Like using @name in Twitter, if that's a helpful analogy.  Let me know if you have questions; leave them in the comments here, if you like.

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Fall 2009 snack list

Here are the names of the volunteers to bring snack this semester. Please remember we have someone allergic to both wheat and dairy, and we have at least 2 vegetarians (but who eat eggs, dairy, and fish).

Sept 3: Julia
Sept 10: Preeti
Sept 17: Jing
Sept 24: Moe
Oct 1: Sensen
Oct 8: Hanjun
Oct 15: Emily
Oct 22: Noah
Oct 29: Bri
Nov 5: Beth
Nov 12: Junaid
Nov 19: Qu
Dec 3: Meagan
Dec 10: Tommy
Exam period: Alice and Robin

Welcome!

This is a blog to collect online conversations from a course offered through the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. The course is the History and Philosophy of Engineering Education, ENE 590, and its current iteration is Fall 2009. Class members will be invited to post comments to discussion topics here, and other members of the engineering education research community are invited to participate, or lurk as they see fit. Whatever brought you here, welcome!