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Excellence in Undergraduate Education Program
1996 Awards

EUE Abstracts - FY 96

Coordinator's Note: The following is a list of EUE awards for FY 96. They are listed by Award Number, Project Title, Project Director, Award Amount, School, College or Administrative Unit, Department or Unit, and an abstract which was released in the award announcement.

96-001
WSIE Computerized Editing System
Frank Absher
$3,740
Fine Arts & Communications
Mass Communication

This proposal will fund the purchase of a computer and related software to allow WSIE News to convert to computerized editing.


96-003
Mentoring Program
Rodney Adams
$4,280
Student Affairs
University Housing

The purpose of the Faculty/Staff Mentoring program will be to bridge the gap between university faculty and staff members and students. Through this program a series of lectures and events will be planned which are designed for educational and social interaction among groups. Through this program students will view faculty and staff as human beings rather than unapproachable entities. This program will alos provide students with a chance to network.


96-005
Fork-Lift Assisted Art Work
Dan Anderson
$15,000
Fine Arts & Communications
Art & Design

The acquisition of a new piece of equipment in the form of a forklift that will enable all undergraduate art students in 3-D classes the opportunity to create architectural scale sculptures and vessels.


96-009
Music Education Clinic/Bi-State Band Festival
John Bell
$13,550
Fine Arts & Communications
Music

That the Department of Music engage renowned conductor/educator Dr. Donald Hunsberger, Professor of Conducting and Director of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and Mr. Phil Mattson, internationally acclaimed euphonium artist for a three day series of concerts, master classes, and clinics.


96-010
Russian Masters Recording Project
John Bell
$14,000
Fine Arts & Communications
Music

That the SIUE Wind Symphony contract with Mr. Bruce Leek, a professional recording engineer/producer and one of the leaders in the field of classical recording, to undertake a recording project utilizing state-of-the-art digital technology with the aim of producing a professional quality compact disc of the SIUE Wind Symphony


96-011
Improving Technical Report Writing
Raghupathy Bollini
$6,000
Engineering
Electrical Engineering

This proposal is concerned with improving the writing skills in the School of Engineering. Dr. Julius Brown will review and critique student writing. He will also provide assistance to the faculty in improving writing assignments.


96-015
A "Readings-Base" for IS 388
Stephen Brown
$3,868
Fine Arts and Communications
Music

IS courses tend not to fit conventional texbooks. I propose to create a computer-stored data-base of readings from which course-specific readers could be generated for each offering of IS 388.


96-017
Lectures by Dr. Alfred Bader, Chemist and Art Enthusiast
Virginia Bryan
$6,350
Sciences
Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry wishes to invite Dr. Alfred Bader, founder of Aldrich Chemical Co. and art enthusiast and entrepreneur as a visiting scholar and the Probst Lecture speaker during the spring Semester, 1996. The 1996 Probst Lecture series will be scheduled to coincide with the 4th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, coordinated by the Department of Chemistry and the local section of the American Chemical Society, at which he will give the plenary lecture.


96-020
USITT Convention - Fort Worth, TX
Brian Conner
$3,600
Fine Arts & Communications
Theater and Dance

A request for funds to allow seven students and a faculty member to attend the United States Institute for Theatre Technology's annual convention in Fort Worth, Texas. The students will be actively involved in attending and presenting workshops at this event.


96-026
Retention via Trained Course Tutors
James Eilers and Sadegh Khazaeli
$27,000
Sciences
Chemistry

Compared to past years, in the fall 1994 our beginning courses, as well as those ofthe other sciences and mathematics, had a sharp decrease in student success rate. We think that part of the problem is that more students than in the past need intense "one on one" or small group learning situations and frequent positive reinforcement. Our tutoring program was overwhelmed and unable to cope with demand. We propose improving the success rate in our freshman/sophomore service courses through making available "Course Specific" tutoring services and small group discussions led by "trained" Graduate Assistants and able junior/senior students. Each course (Chem 120, 121, 241) will be assigned a team of tutors. Each team will be led by a graduate assistant and given additional training in the course material. We will also try to provide tutors with sensitivity training and training in the subtle art of identifying and responding to the real needs of their tutees.


96-028
Circuit Board Fabrication Technology
George Engel
$13,940
Engineering
Electrical Engineering

With growing pressure from ABET upon engineering schools to place greater emphasis on design, it is important that we provide our undergraduates with the tools they need to acquire hands-on design experience. Professional circuit design requires the use of quality circuit boards. At present, our students have no quick, safe, inexpensive, nor simple method to fabricate circuit boards. To address this deficiency, we propose purchasing a computer controlled milling and drilling machine capable of producing single- and double-sided boards which can be fabricated in 60 minutes or less by the students themselves.


96-030
ABle Retention Program
John Farley and Marvin Finkelstein
$11,350
Social Sciences
Sociology

This proposal is to continue the ABle Program, a successful retention program for at-risk students majoring in Sociology, which was funded by a combination of the Excellence in Undergraduate Education Fund and the Minority Recruitment and Retention Fund (administered by the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs) during the 1990-91 and 1991-92 academic years, and by teh Minority Fund again in 1994-95. In most cases, when students were enrolled in the program, they achieved significant improvements in their GPA over their cumulative average, and the great majority were retained to graduation.


96-033
Music Dept. Recording Studio Digital Upgrade
Rick Hayden
$9,950
Fine Arts & Communications
Music

That the Dept. of Musics acquire additional equipment and software necesary to facilitate the use of previously acquired digital recording equipment in the SIUE Music Department Recording Studio, thereby upgrading the studio from 2-track to 16 track digital recording.


96-035
Clarinet Master Class
James Hinson
$1,000
Fine Arts & Communications
Music

To invite George Silfies, (principle clarinet of the St. Louis Symphany) for a day of master classes involving clarinet students and open to all music students. Lecture/performances, student participation, and recruiment are all proposed benefits.


96-040
Visiting Scholars - Mizerany and Mosley
J. Calvin Jarrell
$5,000
Fine Arts & Communications
Theater and Dance

To bring Michael Mizerany and Paul Mosley to SIUE for two separate 2 week residences in the Fall 1995. They will teach classes and choreograph for our dance students.


96-043
SETO Production Program
Lynn Kluth
$3,950
Fine Arts & Communications
Theater and Dance

Continuation of the Student Experimental Theater Program: a program of dramatic works, dance concerts, musicals, and experimental productions developed and staffed by students who may or may not be majoring or minoring in the Departmetn of Theater and Dance.


96-047
Educational Use of the SIUE Arboretum
Frank Kulfinski
$6,000
Sciences
Biological Sciences

Three undergraduate research assistants will conduct a campus arboretum survey (species and location), which will then lead to a mapping of trees of the campus. The inventory and maps will be most useful to (principally) Biology students in a number of courses which deal with identification of species, morphology of tree parts, use of tissues in undergraduate tissue culture research, and in comparative taxonomy.


96-050
Slides and Videos for Printmaking
Robert Malone
$4,000
Fine Arts & Communications
Art and Design

Last year I requested $4,000 as the first part of a proposed three-year project. The project focuses upon the acquisition of slides and videos for the new printmaking studios in the Art and Design Building. The first request was fully funded and I am happy to say that the initial selections have been made; the project is under way. For your convenience, I have attached a copy of that request. At this time I wish to request funds for the continuation of this project. Students and faculty seem to think that this is a good idea and I would like to see it expanded. I am requesting another $4,000 for printmaking slides and videos.


96-051
Building International Awareness
Kathryn Martell
$1,580
Business

A series of videotapes on important international management and trade topics to be incorporated into management courses (MGMT 441 and MGMT 461) in teh BSBA program. Tapes will increase students´international awareness and become better global managers.


96-053
Strategy Competition
Joseph Michlitsch
$5,502
Business
Management

This proposal seeks funds to enter a student team in an international stategy/policy competition using a business simulation in which the team manages the entire business competing with others in the industry. Managing the business requires students to draw upon their knowledge gained in the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Program. As such, the strategy competition creates active learning and helps students coordinate their formal education with actual, proactical experience for their future.


96-056
Videos for Skills Lab
Marguerite Newton
$2,847
Nursing

This proposal is requesting monies to purchase videos for two of the nursing skills laboratory courses in the curriculum. These videos will be used to present the skills in a realistic manner and setting. This will allow students to understand the skills and tehn demonstrate them in a lab setting. This will build student confidence and improve clinical performance.


96-058
Group Study Facilitator/Student Mentor
Sharon North
$3,600
Assitant VP for Admissions and Retention
Instructional Services

The Instructional Services mathematics Resource Area provides a location for students in Academic Development mathematics courses (AD 065, 075, 085, 095) to study individually or in roups. Research has verified that group study is an effective learning tool. A student worker will be trained in techniques for forming and directing student groups. The student worker would also act as a mentor providing encouragement and guidance to the students utilizing the area. Student wages for the nine month academic year are being requested.


96-060
Interactive Reinforced Concrete Design: Columns
Nader Panahshahi and C. Lin
$4,000
Engineering
Civil Engineering

Enhancement of teh CE 442 course, (Concrete Structures) is the primary objective of this proposal. It is proposed to develop a new educational tool (Interactive Concrete Column Design, ICCOD) to make concrete structure design a rapid and interacive learning experience. This tool will enhance the teaching effectiveness of the instructor by assisting him in making the learning encounter of the concrete structure design procedures an interactive, dynamic and stimulating experience for the student.


96-061
The Programmable Hearing Simulator
T. K. Parthasarathy
$6,800
Fine Arts & Communications
Speech Pathology and Audiology

The Programmable Hearing Simulators (PHS) are state-of-the-art, unique technology for teaching skills to assess the hearing function. Undergraduate students in Speech Pathology and Audiology curriculum spend a number of semesters learning these skills. Actual development and refinement of these skills would be enhanced by providing our students with a variety of auditory pathologies. Such students exposure would be possible in teh controlled situation of the lab equipped with Programmable Hearing Simulators.


96-063
Residence Hall Learning Environment
Karen Patty-Graham
$2,460
Assitant VP for Admissions and Retention
Instructional Services

The SIUE Residence Hall affords new students opportunities for sucess in a living/learning environment. This enriched environment will increase their likelihood of being retained at SIUE. To enhance those learning opportunities, this proposal will provide services and materials to students: student wages for peer tutorial assistance, software and graphing calculators to academic survival workshops which will be given by Instructional Servces staff in teh Residence Hall.


96-066
NEH-NSF Interdisciplinary Studies Project
Gerald Pogatshnik and Hugh Barlow
$33,783
Physics/Sociology
Sciences/Social Sciences

This request is to provide matching funds to develop five new Interdisciplinary Studies courses: Science in the Victorian Age, Music: Art & Science, Structures of Science and Civilization, Living Systems, and European Refugees and teh Transformation of American Science. This EUE grant will be used during the course development stage to support the Leadership Opportunities in Science and Humanities Education grant, which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Education in last year´s national competition.


96-069
Hartwick Classic Leadership Cases
Tim Schoenecker and Radcliffe Edmonds
$582
Business
Management

The applicants request a grant of $582 to purchase a set of 40 cases plus teaching notes from the Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute. The Hartwick Classic Leadership Cases link excerpts from famous texts, speeches, or incidents from history with contemporary articles on management and leadership isues. Selected cases from this series will be used in the General Busines Administration (GBA) courses and in Management 441. The pedagogical value of using these cases will be to provide a better link between liberal arts general education curriculum and the business curriculum.


96-072
Infrared Spectroscopy in Chemistry
Nahid Shabestary and Leah O´Brien
$28,963
Sciences
Chemistry

We propose to develop experiments which will demonstrate the application of FT-IR in molecular charaterization. This project involves the introduction of infrared spectroscopy to our undergraduate curriculum. The courses that are invlved in this proposal are the physical chemistry laboratory, inorganic laboratory, and instrumental analysis laboratory. The improvement of our teaching quality through the application of this new technology should stimulate interest of the students toward science and chemistry.


96-079
Innovative Concrete Projects - II
Luke Snell
$2,500
Engineering
Cosntruction

In this undergraduate research and development project, students will build on earlier successes in concrete construction. COncrete projects will be developed and entered in international competition through professional organizations for external assessment. The concrete programs will be placed in a booklet and distributed to interested construction and concrete leaders to showcase SIUE undergraduate expertise in the area of concrete construction. Last year EUE funded this project for $5000. This seed money allowed the department to obtain partial outsie funding. This year we request $2500 and hope to make this project self-sufficient for the following years.


96-080
Multimedia System for Finance
Jacky So and Rakesh Bharati
$5,000
Business
Finance

This proposal seeks to obtain hardware and softwre support to incorporate a multimedia instruction module in Finance. Multimedia applications offer an opportunity for active and enjoyable learning by seamlessly integrating data retrieval, analysis and graphical presentation of results through a user friendly interface. The proposal offers a unique opportunity to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction in Finance with the help of user-friendly technology.


96-081
Jazz Festival Artist
Brett Stamps
$4,400
Fine Arts and Communications
Music

That the Deaprment of Music engage a nationally renowned jazz artist for a series of master classes, clinics, recitals and concerts.


96-082
Educational Series Clinics
Brett Stamps
$1,500
Fine Arts and Communications
Music

That the Deparment of Music implement a series of educational clinics by visiting jazz artists who perform in the St. Louis area.


96-084
Listsevr´s forthe Electronic Community
Mary Sumner
$19,857
Academic Computing

The proposal requests a server which would support the creation of Listserv´s for courses and programs in a variety of disciplines. A Listserv provides an electronic forum for students, faculty, and external particpants to join together in sharing interactions on issues, cases, and projects. The use of Listserv´s will use the capabilities of the campus area network to improve interactions among faculty and students and facilitte teh creation of a teaching-learning community.


96-085
Technology for Distance Learning
Mary Sumner
$13,111
Academic Computing

The purpose of this proposal is to provide faculty teaching in the distance learning classrooms with the technology they need to develop instructional presetnations using software tools and computer-based graphics. The use of instructional technologies to facilitate active learning, capture experiences, and encourage visual thinking will be important to the success of distance learning.


96-087
Lab Assistants/Software for Math
Patricia Traxler
$1,985
Assistant VP for Admissions and Retention
Instructional Services

Computer assisted instruction software will be expanded and additional graphing calculators will be incorporated into the curricula. Students need modes of instruction that are suitable in order for the increased emphasis on active learning, problem solving, applicaitons and highert hinking skills. Laboratory assistants will enhance the quality of instruction in our efforts to incorporate technology.


96-091
Students at a National ACS Meeting
Eric Voss and Leah O´Brien
$3,390
Sciences
Chemistry

The purpose of this proposal is to fund ten chemistry undergraduates to attend the Fall 1995 National American Chemical Society Meeting in Chicago. Attendance at the meeting will allow students to expand their horizons through dialogue with other chemists about their research, network with potential employers or graduate school representatives, and professional development through workshops. This experience will enrich students attending the conference, and also those they interact with upon their return to SIUE.


96-092
Building Sensitivity to Differences
Myrna Wacker et. al.
$7,600
Nursing

Nursing is faced with the need to address issues of sensitivity to differences. While clients come from diverse backgrounds, many students in teh School of Nursing have limited experience with diversity, which has sometimes created difficulty for them. In addition, health care issues facing nurses today are multicultural and multinational. This three-tiered proposal is a request to provide funding for A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE workshop which reaises awareness of sensitivity to issues of diversity as well as to fund faculty time for curricular analysis and development in this area. Further facilitation will be provided by School of Nursing faculty.


96-093
Multi-Arts Workshops
Richard Walker
$4,500
Academic Marketing Services

This proposal requests funds for three multi-arts workshops for undergraduate students in theater and dance and music. The workshops will focus on: incorporating contemporary issues into modern dance, careers in touring theater, and working with disabled artists. The workshops will be lead by the artistic directors of Momix, Nunsense II, and Famous People Players.


96-094
AMA Student Conference
Judith Wahburn, Jack Kaikati, and Ralph Giacobbe
$867
Business
Marketing

This proposal requests EUE funding for 1/3 of the cost for 40 undergraduate students to attend the 35th Annual Student Marketing Conference to be held in February 1996 in downtown St. Louis. Each student will be required to fund 1/3 of the fee and the SIUE Marketing Association will fund the final third. The conference provides a unique experience for SIUE students from all disciplines to interact with business professionals from local andnational companies and students from eight states.


96-095
Biology 120 Retention through Undergraduate Leaders
Gertraude Wittig and J. Thomerson
$14,440
Sciences
Biological Sciences

As a pilot project, at risk students in Biol. 120 will be identified and educational outcomes for majors, minors, general education and under represented students improved through additional instructional support. It will be provided by training undergraduate role models as laboratory leaders and small group tutors.


96-097
Heat Transfer Experiments Using Liquid Crystal Technique
Xiaojun Yan
$1,400
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

The objective of the project is to have one or two junior/senior students involved in the experimental heat transfer research using liquid crystal technique. The project will be part of ME 438/ME492 independent study in the mechanical engineering curriculum. Involved students will learn and perform heat transfer measurements using liquid crystal technique. The result of the project will be prepared for presentation or publication in professional journal or meeting.


96-098
Doctor Kilonewton
Colby Ardis
$6,800
Engineering
Civil Engineering

This proposal will help students, faculty and staff at SIUE become fluent in the International System of Units. The name International System of Units and the international abbreviation SI were adopted by the 11 General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1960. The American Society for Testing Materials developed in 1992 a "Standard Practice for Use of the International System of Units (SI) (the Modernized Metric System).". This proposal will continue the first organized effort that has been undertaken to help our community to prepare for the practice of SI.