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Excellence in Undergraduate Education Program
2003 Awards

EUE Abstracts - FY 03

Coordinator's Note: Abstracts of proposals funded in the FY 03 EUE Program are presented below. At total of 62 proposals were submitted; total requests were $704,177. Thirty-eight proposals were funded, or partially funded, for a total of about $342,590.
Cem Karacal

03-02

Lenora-Marya Anop, Department of Music
A Balancing the Musical Body
Award Amount - $10,400

The International Foundation for Performing Arts Medicine states that 80% of professional musicians report suffering some kind of injury as a result of playing their instruments. This negative side effect of a professional music career is now starting to be recognized as an issue to be addressed alongside students’ musical training so that they can not only obtain a job, but then also sustain a career over several decades without being hampered or completely stopped by injury. The implementation of movement education for all students (not just those who have already been injured) for the purpose of creating and maintaining physical health needs to be included in professional music education. The Ron Fletcher Work (RFW), a Pilates-based discipline, would be an ideal physical wellness program in the Music Department, which to date does not address the topic of performance related injury or recovery outside of the private applied studio.

I propose to bring Sara Avery, a Ron Fletcher Work (RFW) teacher/trainer, to SIUE for eight visits during the 2002-03 academic year (four visits per semester). She will work with our students in two different capacities: 1) work geared toward injury prevention and 2) work focused on injury rehabilitation.

The RFW is an ideal way to teach movement in correct alignment to musicians for the purpose of developing~ properly balanced musculature, which can help prevent injury and rehabilitate existing injury. Mr. Fletcher developed floor and standing work (done away from the special Pilates equipment) in order to make the work more accessible, to emphasize that the work is done within the body and not just against the resistance of the machines, and to allow the student to apply what he has learned more directly to his daily activities.

03-04
Lisa Colbert Bandele, Dept. of Theater and Dance
Black Theater Workshop
Award Amount - $4,000

To develop a Black Theatre Workshop which will be open to all students who are interested in learning more about the history and performance of Black Theatre. This program will span the entire year and will include theatre workshops, script analysis, field trips to see Black Theatre, and student public performances.  We will have several guest artist seminars featuring prominent African—American theatre artists from the St Louis and Illinois area. Also, I will encourage students to write their own plays, and I will give them an opportunity to have them produced through ­the workshop.

Students in the THEA112a (Acting I), and THEA29O sections 001 and 002 courses, will be able to get credit for participating in the Black Theatre Workshop as actors, designers, or crew members. There are already several students from THEA112a’s Fall and Spring courses who are actively participating in Black Theater Workshop in its current state.

03-06
John Bell, Department of Music
Wind Symphony Carnegie Hall Performance Tour
Award Amount - $39,500

Proposed is a performance by the SIUE Wind Symphony in New York City’s Carnegie Hall. This will be a five day and four night residency professionally produced by a noted New York agency.  In addition to the performance, the students will visit museums and other artistic venues and attend a concert of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

03-07
Dallas Browne, Department of Anthropology
Natal-Durban Travel Study
Award Amount - $41,150

This proposal requests funds to reduce the cost of student and faculty participation in a travel study program at the University of Natal-Durban in South Africa. The program involves six weeks of the summer term for approximately 20 students and two faculty members. Students will take ANTH 411-Urban Anthropology and PHIL 390-Global Environmental Issues taught by SIUE faculty. Classes will be aimed at developing an appreciation for issues of culture and environmental ethics that arise in Durban’s densely populated and multi-cultural industrial environment. Faculty and students will be assessed through normal avenues and each, through appropriate channels, will bring dimensions of this international experience back to the University community 

03-08
Kathleen Bueno, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature
Cuernavaca Travel-Study Program
Award Amount - $16,900

This EUE grant requests support to reduce costs for students participating in an international travel-study program in Cuernavaca. Mexico. The Cuernavaca program will entail five weeks of cultural and linguistic immersion scheduled for summer 2003. Students participating in the prom-am will be registered for credit in FL 491 and SP 302. Through course work intercultural seminars and excursions, the students will enhance their language skills and develop intercultural competence. The program, if funded, will lay the groundwork to establish continuing study abroad programs organized by SIUE and opportunities for continued learning will be facilitated through distance Learning.

03-09
Peter J. Bukalski, Dept. of Theater and Dance
DVD for Peck 0409
Award Amount - $280

A prior EUE grant allowed the department to equip Peck 0409 (the room in which THEA 111 and other theater courses are held) with a large screen TV and VHS playback unit. This was done because the monitors supplied by AV were too small for students to see details (the room holds 60 students) and because equipment was used on an almost daily basis, sometimes straining AV’s resources. Other EUE grants allowed the department to acquire a videotape teaching collection.

We would now like to equip the room with a DVD unit and associated switching equipment. Some productions we would like to add to our collection cost considerably more in VHS than in DVD. For instance, Richard Burton’s Hamlet costs $89.95 in VHS (much more than we normally pay for a tape) but only $29.95 in DVD. Having a DVD unit in the classroom would allow us to expose students to a greater variety of educational materials.

03-10
Martha P. Carlton, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Designing the Program and Completing the Application Process for the IL Director Credential Program
Award Amount - $3,000

The purpose of the proposed project is to support the creation of a Director Credential Program at SJUE. Every year, with more and more parents, especially mothers, seeking employment outside the home, the demand for high quality childcare services grows. While the number of childcare facilities has increased to meet this demand, the quality of those facilities is often in doubt. Until now, there was no dependable way for parents and other agencies to know if the administration at a particular center actually knew how to best educate young children. With the recent creation of the Director Credential Program, it will soon be much easier to recognize quality within private centers throughout the state of Illinois. The process has just begun statewide to establish programs within colleges and universities to offer the appropriate degrees leading to the Director Credential. It is the goal of the Early Childhood program at SIUE to be the first statewide to offer this credential at the Bachelors’ level. In order to develop this new program, it is necessary to analyze the contents of all of the courses within the early childhood degree program and determine how each fits into the content requirements for the Director Credential Program. It is obvious at this point that at least two new courses will have to be created, along with organizing the supervision structure for the internship requirements. These two requirements will necessitate the cooperation of several different departments (e.g. Educational Administration and the School of Business) in order to ensure quality of content within the new classes. This grant will cover one month’s salary for the Project Director during the summer for the purpose of pursuing all of the above activities in order to complete the application process for beginning the Director Credential Program at SIUE.

03-11
Denise DeGarmo, Dept. of Political Science
Department of Political Science Virtual Data Web Site
Award Amount - $7,441

As a member of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville -joins with over 400 other institutions in their commitment to provide access to a vast archive of social science data for the purpose of research and instruction. As the gatekeeper to these and other data resources, the Department of Political Science has an unique opportunity to encourage student use of available data resources while incorporating social science data into its curriculum. Unfortunately, several obstacles have prevented the Department from taking full advantage of this opportunity. First, although data sets are available to students, once the data is accessed it often needs to be reformatted, manipulated or cleaned before it can be used for research or instructional purposes. Rarely do students possess the necessary capabilities to perform such tasks. Second, while members of the faculty have the capabilities to make the necessary data transformations, the department does not have a computer with the power and specialized software required to translate data across formats and present the data in a standardized way for student use. Finally, to date, there has been no effective means by which to coordinate and centralize such an undertaking by Political Science faculty. Therefore, to ensure greater student access to data sets while incorporating social science data more fully into the Political Science curriculum, this proposal requests funding for the development of a comprehensive virtual data web site through which students can download relevant data sets for both course and research use. The anticipated benefits of this undertaking include: 1) increased exposure, access and integration of data resources in Political Science courses thus enabling instructors to enhance undergraduate education and curriculum; 2) further development of critical thinking and analytical skills; 3) the synthesis of theory and practice; and, 4) the provision of important resources for the university community as a whole.

03-13
John DenHouter, Dept. of Art & Design
Plein-air Landscape Trip
Award Amount – $6,023

During June 2003 thirteen SIUE undergraduate art students can enroll in a three-week course (June 2 - 20) devoted to drawing and painting the landscape en plein-air (on location). After a preparatory week of studying the history and tradition of plein-air landscape painting and learning various techniques and approaches we will fly to Traverse City, Michigan. Here we will spend a full week drawing and painting the coastline, dunes, inland lakes, forests and towns of northwest Lower Michigan. This experience will provide our students the unique opportunity of participating in a long standing American artistic tradition of traveling to a select region to interpret the landscape in the company and fellowship of a small group of like-minded artists.

Working uninterrupted and without distractions for seven days in an inspiring environment noted for its physical beauty and artistic heritage, the students will benefit from the sense of purpose, community, and camaraderie which develops when traveling and working as a group. This environment will promote a free exchange of ideas, information and critical analysis often times not possible in a studio/classroom setting.

During the final week of the course we will return to campus and produce work, which reflects our experiences. The culmination of the trip will be an exhibition of selected work to be displayed on campus during the fall 2003 semester.

03-15
Therese Zoski Dickman, Library User Services
Performing Art DVDs: Establishing a Core Collection
Award Amount - $1,600

This project seeks $1,600 to acquire 84 performing arts DVD titles. DVDs were introduced into the SIUE classroom last year; yet only 20 titles are currently available from the Library. DVDs offer many advantages for performing arts class instruction: superior picture and sound quality; additional research material following a featured performance; and easy cueing. DVD technology has become an accepted and reliable format. Music, theater and dance faculty worked with the Fine Arts Librarian in creating a list of recommended DVD titles to support the curriculum. These titles will be available from the Audio-Visual Services Department of Lovejoy Library. Smart classrooms are equipped for DVD projection and 8 DVD players are available from Campus Services for faculty use; students can also view a DVD in the Self-Instruction Room of the Library. Information about the DVD titles will be accessible from the Library’s online catalog and to the nation through the Wor/dCat database. An article describing the project will be published in Lovejoy Imprints, and statistics will show how many DVD titles circulate from the Audio-Visual Services Department. This project will establish a core collection of DVDs to enhance performing arts undergraduate instruction at SIUE. 

03-18
Carolyn Epple, Women’s Studies
Future Teachers Learning From Master Teachers
Award Amount - $19,112

The project requests funding for a wide array of Women’s History Month activities at S1UE for March, 2003, as well as seed monies to implement campus wide and yearlong activities targeting women’s issues. Women’s History Month (WHM) provides larger contextualizations of women’s ongoing stratification in society, by generating awareness of women as historical agents, raising consciousness, and facilitating empowerment. WHM activities will include workshops, numerous opportunities for students to meet and discuss in depth issues with visiting scholars, a variety of outside speakers from across the disciplines, film screenings, health fair, as well as events showcasing SIUE and regional experts on women’s issues. We will also network with the University Center Board, University Housing, Student Affairs and other existing programs, to develop and incorporate gender and diversity-related activities into year-round. campus-wide permanent events. Because women’s stratification in society is more complex than simply gender, WHM will also explore the multiple intersections of gender with ethnicity, disability, sexuality, class and globalization. We seek nothing less than to provide the entire SIUE community creative opportunities to learn about women’s roles in history, their systemic subordination and therein enhance all students’ education and, awareness.

03-20
Tom Foster, Rebecca Lindell, and Kim Shaw, Dept. of Physics
Kits and Software for Interactive Astronomy Lecture
Award Amount - $9,330

Over 200,000 students take introductory astronomy nationwide. Even after instruction, most of these students (and most people in general) harbor many incorrect ideas about the universe. Here at SIUE, our teaching success is no different. This is a critical failure on our part since many of our astronomy students are education majors who may teach their naïve beliefs to their students. We have an obligation to do better in our astronomy courses.

The Interactive Astronomy Lecture Project is designed to bring pedagogically useful small ­group activities into the lecture ball. Nationally there are group activities and pedagogically useful laboratory activities, but the synthesis of the two is rare. To bring activities into the university lecture room requires equipment to permit the students to explore their pre-existing ideas and reinforce correct ideas. It will also require a packet of activities to be sold in the bookstore. Finally, the project includes an evaluation plan to examine students conceptual and affecting change as a result of the new curriculum.

03-22
Janette Handling, Instructional Services
An Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Award Amount - $7,920

The Writing Center has begun to develop its Internet presence, but we still have much to do before we can effectively assist students with online assistance with writing. We request (1) a graduate assistant to help us develop procedures that will allow students to submit papers for evaluation via the Internet as well as improve our use of the Internet, (2) software to help us create user-friendly Web pages, and (3) the services of a consultant to provide direction as we endeavor to expand Writing Center services to students who might find it difficult to come in person for assistance. The Internet provides new opportunities to share knowledge and information, but we need to develop materials and procedures to take advantage of this medium. This project will help us take an important step in the right direction.

03-24
Julie Zimmermann Holt, Dept. of Anthropology
Archaeological Flotation Equipment for Undergraduate Instruction and Research
Award Amount - $4,160

Funds are requested for the purchase of a flotation machine for the undergraduate archaeology program at SIUE. This machine will be used in undergraduate instruction and can be used in both field and lab courses. The machine will also be used in undergraduate research in senior projects, in independent studies, and in courses that require archaeological analysis and research. The undergraduate archaeology program at SJUE has never had flotation equipment, even though flotation has been a standard practice in anthropological archaeology since the so-called “flotation revolution” of the 1 960s and 1970s. Purchase of this machine will allow us to educate and train our students in contemporary archaeological methods, it will provide an active-learning experience for students interested in archaeological or related careers, and it will allow students to pursue their own research in areas such as prehistoric subsistence.

03-26
Kevin M. Hubbard, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Eng.
Enhanced Laboratory Capabilities for Active Student Learning
Award Amount -$18,500

Regional industry has consistently indicated the need for new engineering graduates to possess hands-­on experience in techniques associated with productivity improvement. In this proposal, the IME Program describes acquisitions and activities intended to equip its graduates with this experience. Specifically, the IME467-Total Quality and Taguchi Methods, IME483-Production Planning and Control, and IME490-Senior Project courses will be significantly upgraded by the incorporation of new laboratory exercises, and the creation of a new course, IME4xx-Plantwide Process Control, will be made possible.  To complement the acquisitions proposed for this project, the IME Program will purchase additional metrological and fabrication equipment ($10,000 as cost sharing), thereby maximizing the impact of the investments of both the EUE and IME Programs.

03-27
J. Calvin Jarrell, Dept. of Theater & Dance
Guest Artist – Nancy Allison
Award Amount -$3,600

The objective of this proposal is to bring NYC choreographer/dancer Nancy Allison to SIUE in the fall semester of 2002. She will be at SIUE for two weeks to teach master dance classes, as well as choreograph a dance on our students. This residency will give our students the opportunity to work with a professional choreographer from New York City and give them information about what the professional life of a dancer is like in NYC.

03-28
J. Calvin Jarrell, Dept. of Theater & Dance
American College Dance Festival - 2003
Award Amount - $3,640

The objective of this proposal is to acquire funding for 12 students and 3 faculty members to attend the American College Dance Festival during the academic year of 2002-2003. Attending the American College Dance festival is a significant educational and motivational experience for our dance students, which substantially contributes to the excellence in their undergraduate education.

03-29
Charlotte Johnson, Library User Services
Wireless LAN and Circulating Laptops for SIUE users
Award Amount - $14,250

This pilot study would let SIUE students and faculty use wireless laptop computers anywhere within the Library without the bother of connectivity or power cables. By checking out a laptop containing a wireless network interface card and pre-installed software from the Circulation Desk, users could have access to standard office software applications, as well as the World Wide Web and all of the Library’s online information resources.

The network will have the capacity to support 100 computers. Although the test will begin with 10 laptops, this number will provide sufficient data to determine if the proposed network meets technical expectations and how many additional laptops might be needed. It will also allow Library staff to study user response, usage policies and maintenance procedures and to compare these with those being published by other libraries that have completed similar projects.

03-32
Kangho Lee, Department of Music
Guest Artists/Scholars
Award Amount- $6,000

Although the SIUE music department offers the highest quality instruction in performance, music theory, and music history, our undergraduate curriculum does not offer any course in which these individual areas are integrated. This project is designed to expose students to internationally acclaimed Artist/Scholars who have successfully integrated performance with their knowledge of theory and history. It will consist of lecture/workshops and performances, and will benefit all music majors and minors. Moreover, the performance aspect of the project will be of interest to the entire university community. Finally, depending on the availability of resources and the demand, the project may result in developing such a course for our curriculum in the future.

The participants will be:

1)         Jeffrey Solow, Professor of Cello at Temple University, will discuss various ways to integrate music history and performance.

2)         Marilyn McDonald, Professor of Violin at Oberlin Conservatory, will discuss early music 2 performance practice issues.

3)         Joan Panetti, Professor of Theory/Composition and Piano at Yale University, will discuss various ways to integrate theory and performance.

03-33
Debbie Mann, Dept. of Foreign Lang. & Literature
French Colonial Expansion and its Legacy:  Cultural and Ethnic Diversity in Contemporary France
Award Amount- $1,200

This proposal seeks EUE support to purchase resources that will help to expand the focus of course offerings in French to include coverage of French colonial expansion and its legacy in the culturally and ethnically diverse society of present-day France. Requested funds will cover the acquisition of video and audio materials that will enhance undergraduate students’ understanding of the forces behind overseas colonization by the French, the impact of this colonization on the cultures upon which it was imposed, and, especially, the lasting results and profound changes that this colonization has brought about in contemporary French society.

03-34
Tricia L. Martino, Academic Counseling, College of Arts and Sciences
Academic Recovery for Students on Scholastic Probation
Award Amount - $3,632

The proposal is to improve the assistance provided to students on academic probation or reinstatement from suspension. It is designed to increase the retention of students by helping them through the academic recovery process. This would be accomplished by supporting students in grade recovery, self-exploration, self-confidence and personal responsibility necessary to be successful in college. The project consists of three segments: improvement of communication with students in poor academic standing, continuation and expansion of academic success workshops and development of the Academic Choices and Transitions Program (ACT). The funding of this project could reduce the number of semesters students spend in poor academic standing, thus improving SIUE retention and graduation statistics.

03-36
Leah O’Brien, Department of Chemistry
Ab Initio Calculations of Radicals in Physical Chemistry Laboratory
Award Amount - $1,120

New experiments for Physical Chemistry Laboratory (Chem 365a,b) are proposed, which will utilize the Gaussian 98W and GaussViewW software programs. These programs are Windows compatible and capable of sophisticated ab initio calculations on multiple electronic states of molecular radicals (molecules containing unpaired electrons). These calculations can be used to predict molecular geometry (bond lengths, bond angles, etc.), term energies for multiple electronic states, dipole moments, and other spectroscopic parameters.

The initial project to be developed is high-level calculations on gas phase CuO and CuN. CuQ is well known from experimental observations and several high-level ah initio calculations are available in the literature for comparison. CuN, however, has not been observed experimentally nor has it been the subject of any theoretical calculations. Students will use the requested software to calculate bond lengths, term energies and vibrational frequencies for the lowest two electronic states of CuO and CuN. Using the known information on CuQ, students will be able to judge the accuracy of their ah initio calculations, from which they can estimate the accuracy of their predictions for the spectroscopic parameters of CuN

03-37
T. K. Parthasarathy, Department of  Special Education
Electronystagmography (ENG) for Balance Assesment
Award Amount - $8,760

Balance disturbance in the form of dizziness or disequilibrium affects people of all ages and walks of life. An estimated 5 million individuals a year are afflicted with dizziness (National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1991). The computerized Electronystagmography (ENG) represents the “state-of-the art” technology to objectively evaluate the status of the balance system in the inner ear. Diagnostic judgments, patient referral, and management intervention strategies (medical/surgical/rehabilitative) are made with greater reliability and validity when computer based ENG evaluation is considered (Coats, 1995). Furthermore, ENG can provide audiologists important information often missed in more recently developed imaging procedures and therefore continues to a be an essential part of the diagnostic battery of inner ear balance function (Jerger, 1999). Solid foundation and valuable hands-on experience in ENG would positively strengthen the quality of our undergraduate training program and facilitate in accurate detection and management of patients with balance dysfunction.

03-38
John Peecher, Arts & Issues
Arts & Issues Series 2002-2003
Award Amount - $2,000

The services of four unique and highly acclaimed artistic groups, which lend themselves to enhanced educational programs for SLUE students, have been secured for the Arts & Issues Series for 2002-2003. The proposed project would provide funding to keep these four groups on campus one additional day to conduct at least one workshop per performing group for the benefit of SIUE students. In addition to the school-time performance of “Oh, Figaro” by the National Theater of the Deaf, the company would offer one work-shop (Jan. 29, 2003) for approximately 30 students (campus leadership and the theater/dance programs), with the focus of understanding situations relating to persons with hearing disabilities, both in the theater and in their personal and professional lives. Members of the Carlos Nakai musical group, comprised of persons of American Indian & Tibetan heritage, would conduct an educational workshop (Sept. 6 or 7, 2002) with approximately 30 students (music and campus leadership programs.) The workshop would focus on their ethnic cultures as they pertain to their music and the impact of their ethnicity on their personal and professional lives Members of the Takacs Quartet will meet with 80 students of the music program for a two-hour educational workshop (March 27, 2003). Pianist George Winston would lead an educational workshop (Sept. 25, 2002) for students of the music program & campus leadership program. The cultural, communication, theater, and music exchanges provided by these workshops would offer valuable learning experiences to undergraduate students at a modest cost by extending the stay of the performers for just one additional day.

03-39
Laura Perkins, Department of Speech Communications
Environmental Collaboration Initiative
Award Amount - $4,300

The Environmental Collaboration Initiative is designed to create opportunities for engaged learning across a number of academic disciplines. Faculty members interested in environmental sciences and studies will identify 30 undergraduate students to meet at a fall gathering. At this event, students and faculty members, as well as graduate students from Environmental Sciences, will design community action projects and research programs. Participants will form teams to carry out the work. In the spring, the participants will meet again in order to present their work in progress.

In addition to this more intense collaborative effort, students enrolled in undergraduate classes pertaining to environmental issues will have the opportunity to hear a series of expert speakers discuss pertinent environmental issues.

02-31
Rowena McClinton, Dept. of Historical Studies
Handbook for Secondary Education Majors
Award Amount $891

This proposal addresses the need for a Department of Historical Studies handbook for secondary education history majors. The compilation of this handbook will involve both the SIUE School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences. Therefore1 the contents will reflect standards and expectations of both institutions and NCATE standards. This guidebook will be of utmost importance in strengthening undergraduate program in history education because students will have a dependable and concrete source to which to turn when plotting one's way through choosing undergraduate history and education courses. These contents will supply the student guidelines, deadlines, teacher-training syllabi, courses to be taken in the School of Education and the Department of Historical Studies, forms for medical examinations, university supervising evaluation sheets, cooperating teacher/university supervisor evaluations, and the history university supervisor's statement of what is expected of every student who desires certification. The approximately 100 page printed items are to be disseminated when a student has passed the TAP text and has declared the history/education major.

03-40
Jerry Pogatshnik, Department of Physics
Data Acquisition Equipment for the Introductory Physics Laboratories
Award Amount - $8,440

This is a continuation of a two-year EUE grant that was funded in FY 02. The objective of this project is to provide modern data acquisition hardware and software for use in our introductory physics labs (PHYS 112, 206, and 212A,B). These lab courses enroll approximately 400 students each semester. The new systems will allow us to significantly improve our current computer-based labs in the area of mechanics. It will also allow us to develop new computer-based lab experiments in optics, waves, sound, and electricity and magnetism.

03-42
Sara Sawyer, Department of Biological Sciences
Marine Aquaria for Teaching Invertebrate Biology
Award Amount - $3,944

This request seeks funding for the purchase of two marine aquaria to support the teaching of invertebrate biology and marine biology. Invertebrate animals comprise greater than 95% of the known animals on earth. Many groups of invertebrates are either exclusively marine or have large numbers of marine representatives. Handling and observing live animals is the best way to learn about these diverse animals, and this requires marine aquaria. Two aquaria are necessary to maintain animals from the two major temperature environments found in the ocean (tropical and coldwater). These aquaria will be available for use in all the biology courses whose material includes marine organisms or marine ecology and so these aquaria have the potential of impacting a large number of students.

03-43
Jake F. Schaefer, Department of Biological Sciences
IWorkx and Labscribe equipment for the Human Anatomy and Physiology Course
Award Amount - $8,985

This proposal is a request for funds to purchase some computerized data acquisition units for the Human Anatomy and Physiology lab. The units (iWorkx Teaching Kits for Human Anatomy and Physiology) are designed for use by undergraduates and will give the nursing majors in that course valuable hands-on experience in monitoring many aspects of human physiology. The kits are designed to be included in labs covering the nervous, muscular, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems. We will be able to immediately use this equipment in roughly half of the labs in the two-semester course. Each kit connects to a computer (already available in lab) and gives real-time data capture and graphical display of the variables being monitored. While we currently cover these physiological systems in lab, there is a lack of activities that give this type of experiential learning experience. The acquisition of these units will go a long way towards improving student involvement and therefore understanding of the topics covered in lab.

03-47
Kimberly A. Shaw, Department of Physics
Electric and Magnetic Interactions Curriculum Implementation
Award Amount - $9,280

The Electric and Magnetic Interactions Curriculum is a radical departure from the traditional presentation of introductory physics. This curriculum uses many modern physics topics to teach the fundamental principles of physics. It relies on the students being actively involved in their learning and assists them in producing useful visualizations through moderate computer modeling activities. Both of these aspects are shown by research to produce better student comprehension of the material. The Department of Physics has made a unanimous commitment to teach this curriculum to a class of about 55 students in the coming academic year. To succeed in this endeavor, the department will need to develop several demonstrations of the more modern phenomena we will be discussing. We will also need to develop new laboratory exercises relevant to the new curriculum. We are excited by the prospect of teaching our students this innovative curriculum because it has the potential to address several issues in our current introductory physics courses. All of this is a major change for the department, so we have a rigorous evaluation plan in place, which will assess both learning gains, as well as cognitive and affective changes. If this experimental section is successful, the Department of Physics will adopt this curriculum permanently as its primary curriculum for its University Physics courses (the Phys 21 lab and Phys 212ab sequences).

03-49
Scott Smith, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Virtual Reality Application for Enhancing Rhythmic Perception of Music Students
Award Amount - $10,225

The proposed EUE project will investigate the use of the School of Engineering’s Virtual Reality laboratory to show and teach music concepts within a graphics enhanced full-musical context. Our combined expertise in computer graphics and music, as well as the equipment we each can provide, will allow us to create several computer programs combining these areas. These applications will allow us to better understand the opportunities and problems associated with this mix. A major objective of the project is to create an application, which can be used to help teach rhythmic concepts in both basic and advanced music theory classes.

03-53
Patricia A. Traxler, Instructional Services
Lab Assistants / Software Math
Award Amount - $2,898

Students need modes of instruction that are suitable for emphasis on active learning, problem solving, applications, writing mathematics and higher-order thinking skills. Laboratory assistants will enhance the quality of instruction in our efforts to incorporate technology.

03-54
Cheryle Tucker-Loewe, Academic Counseling
Pre-Entry Advisement and Registration Technology
Award Amount - $4,792

The Pre-Entry Advisement and Registration (PEAR) program instructs new freshmen in basic information required for academic success at SIUE. PEAR has the ability to affect both the recruitment and retention of new students. The material presented must of course be accurate; however, it must also be made interesting in order to impress these potential students. The requested equipment would enable the PEAR facilitators to better meet the needs of students and their families by providing a multi-media approach to learning.

03-56
Beatrix Ulrich, Department of Theater & Dance
Bernina Sewing Machines
Award Amount - $2,097

The Theater and Dance Department is requesting three Bernina 1008 sewing machines for use in the costume shop. The sewing machines would be a step towards making it possible for the students to do in class work and not need to share machines.

03-57
Jennifer Vandever,  Faculty Technology Center, Library
Faculty Summer Institute
Award Amount - $10,000

Last summer, to better help instructors understand and use web-based technology tools, the Faculty Technology Center (FTC) hosted a Faculty Summer Institute (FSI) on SIUE’s campus. Nineteen faculty members participated in last year’s program. The faculty members were exposed to a wide range of technology including classroom and web-based tools. The purpose of the FSI was to develop the technical and pedagogical skills needed to teach effectively in the web-enhanced or web-based environment. The FSI was supported by an Excellence in Undergraduate Education grant that funded equipment stipends, and tuition for an online course for the participants.

Last summer’s FSI was well received. Twenty-seven faculty members applied for the available positions; nineteen faculty members were selected. These faculty members came from a wide range of disciplines and technology skills and each participant developed individual goals related to the application of technology to their teaching. They also participated in a cross-discipline group project. In the final evaluation of the program, participants recommended the FTC host another FSI this year. Also, continued follow-up with participants shows they are working steadily towards their goals of incorporating technology in their teaching.

This year’s FSI is similar to last year’s program and will be held June 5 — July 24, 2002. Participants meet for seven-weeks, attending various technology workshops, one day per week. FTC staff and other expert faculty and staff members will lead these workshops. There is also an option for five of the participants to work exclusively on WebCT projects, without the focus on other technologies. These five participants will work with an FTC staff member and FTC graduate assistants as they develop their course and course materials for WebCT. In between each weekly session, all participants take an online course hosted by FTC staff. This grant will fund equipment stipends for the twenty participants.

03-58
Eric J. Voss, Department of Chemistry
Digital Imaging of Live Chemical Demonstrations in Chemistry Lecture Course
Award Amount - $6,170

Historically, chemical lecture demonstrations had to be performed on a large scale in order to be effectively seen in a large lecture hall. For a typical solubility demonstration, several liters of heavy metal waste would be produced. Due to advances in the quality of small digital video cameras and the speed of current laptop computers, it is now possible to project magnified images of small-scale demonstrations using a high-quality video camera attached to a robust flexible neck. The requested camera may either be attached directly to a video projector, or better, may be used in conjunction with portable laptop computer. This Excellence in Undergraduate Education proposal seeks funds to purchase equipment to make possible the digital imaging of live chemical demonstrations in chemistry lecture courses. The video flex camera/laptop combination will improve the educational experience of thousands of students per year, and will also minimize waste disposal hazards and costs.

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Laura Wolff, Dept. of Economics & Finance
The Rain Forest Project: The Next Level
Award Amount - $24,700

This is the second year of a three-year EUE proposal that will allow SIUE to form a multi-faceted relationship for undergraduate education with Carara National Park, a transitional rain forest on the Pacific Coast in Costa Rica that is known for its biodiversity. In this second year, we will extend the relationship by offering a now developed interdisciplinary environmental studies course focused on service learning in the rain forest, by developing and offering new campus-based courses with field experiences in the rain forest, by developing and offering intensive study abroad courses on site in Costa Rica, and by creating longer term internship, undergraduate research, and field study courses with the staff of Carara.  Faculty from multiple departments are now participating in the leadership team and will be assisting in the design of the new courses and will be leading the field experiences.

03-60
E. Duff Wrobbel, Dept. of Speech Communication
Speech Communication Center
Award Amount - $7,246

Last year, The Speech Center received funding for the first of a projected three-year project. If successful, the costs of running the Center were to be shifted to other sources at the rate of 1/3 for year two, 2/3 for year three, and fully in year four. 2002 represents the second year of EUE-funded Center operation. Attached, please find the following as requested: 1) a brief report on the current status of the Speech Center; 2) an updated budget representing a slight increase in funding levels for salaries (due to both a State-mandated increase in wage levels and the second-year status of our current GA) and the 1/3 overall reduction as GAS assumes the ongoing costs of running the Center; and 3) the original, approved proposal, all of which remains relevant.

03-62
Bin Zhou, Department of Geography
Using the Economist as the Main Text in Teaching Economic Geography
Award Amount - $3,750

This proposal requests the EUE fund support an innovative experiment in teaching Geog3ol Economic Geography in 2003. The fund will be used for a one-year subscription to the Economist magazine. The magazine will be used as the main printed course material. This experiment has the potential to pioneer a new approach that shifts upper level college economic geography education from a static, history-and-theory-orientation to a dynamic, current event-driven format. In the proposed new teaching format, instead of using selected current events to support theories, I would like to use whatever theories to help students understand current events. Instead of relying on only micro-level analysis, I would like to adopt a more balanced approach that examines both micro- and macro-level factors. Instead of conducting geographic analysis in terms of industries and sectors, I would like to incorporate both sector analysis and country/regional analysis. Instead of pre-determining what to teach, the material covered largely depends on what is happening in the real world. For the new teaching format, the Economist seems to be a good media for such an experiment.