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Excellence in Undergraduate Education Program
1997 Awards

EUE Abstracts - FY 97

Coordinator's Note: The following is a list of EUE awards for FY 97. 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.


97-005
School of Engineering Tutoring Program
Ronald Banks
$10,260.00
Engineering
Electrical Engineering

A tutorial program focused on increasing School of Engineering student retention rates through an integrated approach will be developed. Emphasis will be placed on minority, women and evening students to result in increased classroom performance within mathematics, sciences and core engineering courses.


97-006
Undergraduate Outdoor Sculpture
Eric Barnett
$5,000.00
The University Museum

Awards will be given to students for creation of outdoor sculpture. Support for purchase of some of the materials.


97-008
Music Education Clinic
John Bell
$13,730.00
Arts & Sciences
Music

Dr. Donald Hundberger, Professor of Conducting and Director of the Eastman Wind ensemble and Mr. Phil Mattson, renowned classical and jazz euphonium artist will be funded for a three day series of master classes, clinics, and concerts.


97-012
Color Figures for Physics Guide
Richard Boedeker
$1,000.00
CAS
Physics

The use of color (found in many of the newer texts) greatly increases the information available in figures. This project is awarded seed money in order to initiate copies of the color figures contained in material supplementary to the course text in Phys 211. This supplementary material will be purchased by the students in order to establish a revolving fund.


97-013
Modularized Electrical Circuits Course
Raghupathy Bollini and Luis T. Youn
$21,230.00
Engineering
Electrical Engineering

Several methods are being explored for increasing the student performance and retention in the introductory electrical circuits course. Modularization of the existing course will be initiated in order to provide critical attention to the students with difficulty in learning the material and also to possibly decrease the penalty for students who repeat the course.


97-014
PCR for Undergraduate Teaching Labs
Mark Bolyard
$6,000
CAS
Biology

Undergraduate teaching laboratories and research experiences will be improved by providing access to an apparatus for performing the polymerase chain reaction (a PCR machine), which is standard equipment for molecular biology / genetic engineering labs. The PCR machine will also be used heavily in ecology and environmental science.


97-017
Interactive Learning in Foreign Languages
Kathleen Bueno
$36,850
CAS
Foreign Languages

Purchase of 10 Macintosh computers and related software to enhance active learning for approximately 500 students who come weekly to the Foreign Languages Training Center is being funded by EUE. These funds will be used to purchase hardware, software, site licensing, as well as minimum labor and furniture required to make the room operational. Academic Computing will install the equipment and train our staff.


97-020
Two Week Study Tour of Toluca, Mexico
M. Robert Carver, Jr.
$10,000
Business

Ten students and two faculty advisors are being funded to participate in a two-week international business study tour of Toluca, Mexico.


97-025
Earthquake Engineering Tutoring Program
Brad Cross, C. Lin, N. Panahshahi
$4,825
Engineering
Civil Engineering

A computer program for the IBM-PC that will enable students to tutor themselves in the subject of earthquake-resistant design will be developed. In particular, the translation of earthquake ground motion into a load and the effects of these loads on a building frame can be shown well on a computer. Graphics showing how the ground will move, along with how that introduces forces into the structure of a building, will be provided. The techniques that are used to determine these forces will be displayed, allowing students to interactively answer some qualitative and quantitative questions regarding the processes shown.


97-027
Slides: Cross-Cultural Art History Course
Pamela Decoteau
$382.50
CAS
Art & Design

In an attempt to be more diverse in the content of our Introduction to Art courses, several faculty have attempted to integrate non-Western art into our beginning courses. To do this, slide preparation is being funded for faculty to use. One or two student workers will be hired to catalogue, type labels, and mount in permanent slides 875 slides which are already purchased on non-Western art. (i.e. African, Middle-Eastern, Oceanic and Micronesian, Central and South American and Native North American). This will require 90 hours at $4.25 per hour.


97-033
Integration of EDA into EE Curriculum
George Engel
$15,770
Engineering
Electrical Engineering

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is vital to a strong global electronics industry. Over a million dollars in state-of-the-art EDA software, generously donated by the Mentor Graphics Corporation, has already been acquired by the SIUE Electrical Engineering Department. Unfortunately, due to a lack of resources, the software is currently largely underutilized. To address this problem, funding to train and support graduate students who will aid faculty in integrating this software into the classroom was awarded. By incorporating the latest design automation tools and techniques into the undergraduate curriculum, we are working to prepare engineering students for the high-technology markets in the next century.


97-034
Awareness Beyond Facts: A Cognitive Focus
Patricia Farabee
$479.95
CAS
Instructional Services

This project is designed to fill a void in resources experienced by reading instructors on the Instructional Services staff. Software will be made available for students to work on developing critical thinking or any reading skills except rate enhancement.


97-036
ABle Retention Program
John Farley and Marvin Finkelstein
$11,150
CAS
Sociology

This proposal is to continue the ABle Program, a successful retention program for at-risk students majoring in Sociology. In most cases, when students were enrolled in that program, they achieved significant improvements in their GPA over their cumulative average, and the great majority are retained and graduate.


97-039
Focus on Undeclared Students
Sharon Hahs
$3,750
CAS

At SIUE and nationally, students who have declared a major are retained at higher rates than undeclared students. CAS will conduct focus groups for undeclared students in Fall, 1996. Topics will include a) experiences at SIUE to date, b) how to enhance their efforts in selecting a major, and c) their ideas on how best to foster the desired characteristics and capabilities of CAS graduates. Students´ connections, input, and awareness should foster the overall goal of enhanced retention rates of undeclared students.


97-044
Manhattan Woodwind Quintet Residency
James Hinson
$5,000
CAS
Music

The Manhattan Woodwind Quintet will be contracted for a two-day residency at SIUE to include performances, workshops, and master classes involving woodwind students and open to all music students and faculty.


97-045
Writing Through the Curriculum Workshop
Maurice Hirsch
$2,500
Business

A writing-through-the-curriculum workshop will be conducted for new School of Business faculty who have been hired since the last workshops were held. This continues the School´s emphasis on critical thinking and communication. Faculty skills and personal involvement in this effort are necessary in order for this emphasis to remain a core part of the School´s organizational culture.


97-046
GBA 490 Training in Feedback and Grading
Maurice Hirsch
$550
Business

The School of Business has GBA 490 as an exit requirement for students to demonstrate appropriate critical thinking and writing skills through papers submitted. Over the last five years of working with this requirement, the Course Administrators have seen that their is a divergence within the faculty readers on what feedback to give and what grades to assign. A new curriculum for the course raises different issues for faculty readers. This project will fund a short workshop to develop common feedback and grading expectations.


97-048
American College Dance Festival (ACDFA)
J. Calvin Jarrell
$4,350
CAS
Theater & Dance

This project funds SIUE as a host university for the Great Lakes region of the American College Dance Festival (ACDFA) March 5-8, 1997. The intent of this project is to be a collaborative venture with the Katherine Dunham Center for the Performing Arts (KDCPA).


97-049
Guest Artists: Michael Mizerany, Mary Ann Rund
J. Calvin Jarrell
$3,600
CAS
Theater & Dance

This project brings Michael Mizerany (former SIUE dance student and current L.A. dancer/choreographer) and Mary Ann Rund (former SIUE student and current dancer/choreographer in St. Louis) to SIUE as guest artists in the fall semester ´96.


97-051
Campuswide Full-text Access to Journals
Charlotte Johnson
$53,500
Lovejoy Library
User Services

This project will provide 24-our access to thousands of full-text journals using the campus network and the Internet. Undergraduate students will be able to search, evaluate and acquire journal articles from the computer labs, their residences and workplaces, as well as from within the Library. Funding was approved for subscriptions to the journals.


97-060
Teaching Aid for Triaxial Service Test
Chiang Lin, B. Cross, & B. Vaughn
$7,820
Engineering
Civil Engineering

An interactive computer program that will simulate the Triaxial Soil Test, which is the key experiment used in foundation design will be purchased. This program will be used in the Soil Mechanics and Foundation Design courses. The student will use the program to gain the necessary knowledge about this type of test often needed for the design of foundations. A benefit of using this program is to eliminate the problems a student would experience if the physical experiment was conducted. Such problems may include the frustration resulting from (1) the student's inexperience and (2) long testing time duration. Furthermore, the cost of equipping several test stations is avoided.


97-062
fisCAL Software for Case Analysis
Kathryn Martell & Tim Schoenecker
$1,914
Business
Management

Funding was approved to acquire a license to the fisCAL software package plus 98 copies of the manual Profiting from Financial Statements. This software will be used by students to analyze financial statements contained in various cases taught in MGMT 441. fisCAL, which is used widely in industry, enables students to perform various forms of financial analysis including ratio analysis, sensitivity analysis, pro forma statements, etc. Purchase of this software will provide students with a valuable skill they need to be competitive in their careers, enhance the quality of case discussions in MGMT 441, and provide a cross-disciplinary link.


97-063
Non-linear Video Editing System
Riley Maynard
$2,173
CAS
Mass Communications

This project will purchase a non-linear editing system which would permit our students 24-hour access to a high-tech unit. It would reduce the strain on our present one unit, reduce the number of hours for teachers and engineers to supervise, and increase the capabilities of student's editing functions.


97-065
Strategy Competition
Joseph Michlitsch
$4,240
Business
Management

This is the second year funding of a multi-year project approved last year. A student team will be entered in an international policy/strategy competition in which the team manages a computer-simulated business competing with others in industry. In managing the business, students are required to apply knowledge gained in the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Program. As such, the competition creates active learning and helps students integrate formal education with practical experiences for their future. This is a multi-year request because each year affects different students (the current senior class).


97-072
Adventures in Operations Management
Gertrude Pannirselvam
$350.00
Business
Management

Funding was awarded to purchase 10 copies of the manual for Adventures in Operations management (AOM). AOM is a tutoring and testing software that covers topics discussed in PROD 315 (Production and Operations Management) course. By using this software students can practice problems in various topic areas and have access to an on-line tutor and instant feedback on their solutions. The quick feedback and on-line tutor will motivate students and help improve their performance in the course.


97-079
Rebuild Steinway Piano
Linda Perry
$12,500
CAS
Music

Funding was awarded to rebuild one of the Department of Music´s concert Steinway pianos for use with the new recording facilities, music performance classes, and for student recitals.


97-081
Technology and Public Policy
Randy Rapp
$5,000
Engineering
Construction

Learning if the development of technology can be suitably controlled by the collective will of citizens expressed through the policies established by the United States´ legislative and executive bodies is a topic of interest to responsible Americans. Students must understand the link between technological developments and political mechanisms to be better able to someday serve in responsible private or public sector positions. An interdisciplinary study (IS) course comprising technology and public policy enhances undergraduates' opportunities to meet their General Studies requirements while seeking relevance and excellence in their education. Creating this IS course reinforces the foundation of interrelated knowledge upon which students can build the capacity for future service and learning.


97-088
SETO Production Program
Jack Smith
$3,950
CAS
Theater & Dance

Continuation was awarded for 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 Department of Theater and Dance.


97-089
EE 482 Laboratory Modernization
Scott Smith
$15,000
Engineering
Electrical Engineering

This EUE project modernizes the subject matter taught in EE 482, Microprocessor System Design to respond to constant and rapid technological advances in the computer industry. The new equipment will enable us to implement our teaching philosophy of stressing a complete understanding of fundamental material (using active laboratory experiences with simple, older systems already in the lab) followed by laboratory activities involving state-of-the-art concepts and technologies.


97-091
Jazz Festival Artist
Brett Stamps
$4,400
CAS
Music

This project provides an engagement of a world-class jazz performer/educator for two days of clinics, master classes, and concerts. The clinics, master classes, and concerts would be held in conjunction with the seventh annual SIUE High School Jazz Band Festival. All music students would attend clinics and master classes on such topics as the music industry, improvisation, composition, and performance technique. The appearance of a prominent guest artist on campus will provide instrumental music education and performance majors with a unique educational opportunity for musical enrichment and growth.


97-092
Jazz Clinics
Brett Stamps
$1,500
CAS
Music

This project provides engagements of nationally recognized jazz artists who perform at Jazz At the Bistro in St. Louis to conduct educational clinics at SIUE for undergraduate students. Clinic topics will include music industry, improvisation, composition, jazz history, and performance technique. many of the artists are graduates of other universities, the educational perspectives they provide should greatly enhance the education of our undergraduates. These people serve as role models for the music profession, provide inspiration for aspiring music teachers and performers and serve as a resource of knowledge and experience.


97-093
Recording Music Ensemble Rehearsals
Brett Stamps
$11,500
CAS
Music

This project will acquire a "play-back" speakers, microphones, amplifiers and DAT recorder to facilitate the recording of ensemble rehearsals in the new SIUE Music Department Recording Studio. The Recording Studio is used for professional level recordings, student recitals and concerts, audition tapes, rehearsal recording and such music courses as MUS 439 (Recording Techniques). This equipment will allow for the best use of the educational resources of the recording studio, as students would receive instant feedback, allowing them to hear what the instructor hears and enable them to make adjustments to improve the level of their performance.


97-094
Software for Weave Structure Designing
Laura Strand
$1,600
CAS
Art and Design

This project will purchase software for weave structure designing in my undergraduate classes. We need one cop of WeaveMaker and 12 site licenses for use in 202f, 384, 484, 584. Access to this program will enormously enhance the creative potential of individuals in weaving. This is an essential tool for offering students a competitive education in the field.


97-099
Problem Solving in Modern Physics
P. Narayana Swamy
$6,130
CAS
Physics

A set of problems with complete solutions, with commentaries and notes, will be developed for each of the ten topics in the standard modern physics course, to benefit students, as a complete monograph.


97-100
CIM Quality Simulation Software
Laura Swanson
$1,200
Business
Management

This project funds 20 copies of CIM Quality Simulation software manuals from John Keane and Associates for use in the production courses. CIM Quality simulates the manufacturing process, and allows students to test different approaches to improving quality. The students can judge the success of their choices by the company´s performance in sales growth and profit. The educational value of the simulation is to actively demonstrate to the students the function and performance of quality management systems.


97-105
Schubert Bicentennial Celebration
Sarah Turner
$1,900
CAS
Music

This project supports visiting artist John Wustman and five singers to present a song recital and master class honoring the Schubert bicentennial.


97-106
Active Learning for Color Imaging
Scott Umbaugh
$11,550
Engineering
Electrical Engineering

The enhancement of the Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP) Laboratory will integrate color imaging into the interactive laboratory exercises. Color imaging tutorials for active learning will be developed. This extension to the existing capabilities of the SIUE CVIP Laboratory will encourage undergraduate students to become involved in computer imaging applications research, and augment he potential for development of innovative teaching methods created by this environment.


97-109
Choices II Software
Judith Washburn and James Lynch
$3,000
Business
Marketing

This project funds the purchase of the Choices II database that consists of marketing and media information. Acquisition of this software will allow undergraduate students to research and complete professional reports and can be incorporated in at least six undergraduate marketing courses.


97-110
AMA Student Conference
Judith Washburn, J. Kaikati & R. Giacobbe
$866.67
Business
Marketing

This project funds 1/3 of the cost for 40 undergraduate students to attend the 36th Annual Student marketing Conference to be held in February 1997 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 and national companies and students from eight states.


97-113
Students´ Cooperative Study Group
Luis Youn
$1,100
Engineering
Electrical Engineering

Implementing cooperative study groups and self help groups will improve outcomes in EE 365, the first controls course in Electrical Engineering. The instructor will identify and invite students with strong math background and good computer skills to be group leaders. Group leaders and the instructor will meet regularly to identify common questions and problems for discussion in class.