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Excellence in Undergraduate Education Program EUE
Abstracts – FY 10 10-01 Barry Kelly,
Department of Biological Sciences Brugam
Richard, Department of Biological Sciences Abusharbain
Elaine, Department of Biological Sciences Biology I
and Biology II Curriculum Development Award Amount
-$9,894 Animal
Systems (Biol 120) and Plant Systems (Biol 121) are the first courses that
Biological Sciences majors take at SIUE. These courses are being replaced with
Biology I (Biol 150) and Biology II (Biol 151) in order to offer a course
sequence that comprehensively introduces students to the major concepts in
biology. This change will follow the recommendations of the Illinois
Articulation Initiative will include an increased emphasis on ecology,
evolution, and molecular biology. Biol 150 is scheduled for introduction Fall
2010 and Biol 151 will be offered in Spring 2011.. We are requesting funds for the
development of this new course series. Course syllabi are in place and
tentative labs have been identified. This funding will allow us to identify
modify existing labs for the new courses, identify and revise lab exercises
for new labs, and assemble a lab manual. We anticipate that the revised
curriculum will increase student academic performance in these revised
courses as well as subsequent core courses (Genetics, Cell and Molecular
Biology). This course series change will also aid the transition of transfer
students to SIUE. 10-02 Devraj
Radhika, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Santanello
Cathy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Instructional
video design for health literacy course in the pharmacy curriculum Award Amount
-$2,420 This proposal is requesting EUE funds to
assist with development and design of an educational video case series to aid
in health literacy instruction of pharmacy students. Currently the School of
Pharmacy has a 3-hour required course entitled “Health Literacy and
Promotion” that addresses the health literacy problem by encompassing
the scope of the problem, discussing ways to identify low literacy patients,
providing tips on counseling patients with low literacy, and discussing how
to tailor written materials for low literacy patients. Active learning
strategies are used in addition to viewing a video developed by the American
Medical Association (AMA) Foundation for medical students and physicians.
This video does not adequately address health literacy from the pharmacists'
perspective, nor does it provide crucial patient-pharmacist vignettes that
clearly explain how to identify and tailor counseling to low literacy
patients. Consequently, it fails to meet the needs of pharmacy faculty for
effectively conveying to student pharmacists the pharmacists' role in
improving health literacy. Therefore a critical need exist for the
development of a video tailored to the situations pharmacists and student
pharmacists face. This will greatly augment the health literacy training for
pharmacy students and enhance the learning experience. The proposed project
is to create an instructional 15-20 minute video that includes approximately
five case studies that illustrate the problem of health literacy and how
pharmacists can effectively address this problem in the pharmacy setting.
Real pharmacists will be featured interacting with the actors posing as
patients challenged by limited health literacy in an actual pharmacy. This
health literacy video is expected to help teach pharmacy students how to
establish a patient-friendly environment that will maximize patient
understanding, improve patient compliance and reduce health care costs. 10-03 Chen
Jen-Shiun, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer
Simulation Experiments for Signals and Systems Award Amount
-$3,000 Signals and Systems (ECE 351) is a
required and fundamental undergraduate course for students in the electrical
and computer engineering (ECE) programs. The proposed project will develop
computer simulation experiments for selected, important topics in the course.
The experiments will serve three purposes: 1. They will help the students to
better understand the concepts and theories, including the underlying
mathematical equations and the interaction and effects of the variables and
parameters. 2. They will illustrate how practical signals and systems can be
designed and implemented. 3. They will introduce the students to the concepts
and techniques of computer simulation in Signals and Systems. New teaching
materials on computer simulation in Signals and Systems will be developed.
Computer Simulation as a topic will be added to the course. Course materials
for ECE 351 will be revised to incorporate the computer simulation
experiments' results. 10-04 Cho Sohyung,
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Program Lee H.
Felix, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Program Curriculum
Renovation using Product Life Cycle Engineering Award Amount
-$10,896 While the employment of advanced technologies
enhanced flexibility of manufacturing enterprises to produce highly
customized products with short lead-time, design and operation requirement
have become more complex. This has
resulted in increased emphasis on product life cycle engineering where
various engineering activities such as design, manufacturing and service work
together. Product life cycle engineering (PLCE) is considered as one of the
most significant tools for manufacturing enterprises to survive in today's
fierce competition. Therefore, there is an urgent need for SIUE to bring its
educational focus on the PLCE. The PDs of this EUE proposal plan to establish
a unique and state-of-the-art educational platform using internal and
external grants in the near future, with which student can practice the PLCE.
As an initial step to establish the educational platform, we first propose to
renovate the IME curriculum by including the main topic of the PLCE. If
successful, this EUE project will offer the following benefit to engineering
students: · Enhanced
understanding of PLCE from design and manufacturing to retail process. · Top-class
hands-on experience that deals with advanced technologies such as RFID and
Web Server. · Improved
exposition to manufacturing design and automation using the state-of-the-art
hardware and software resources, which will be a significant advantage for
students to be highly competitive engineers. · Managerial
insight on effective operations of manufacturing facility, which is
coordinated by application of PLCE. 10-05 DeSpain
Jessica, Department of English Language & Literature Rare Books
and Manuscripts in Undergraduate Education Award Amount
-$4,141 Rare and archival materials have become
a hallmark of effective undergraduate research programs across the country.
These primary sources give students a hands-on experience with history and
broaden their understanding beyond the canonical authors presented uniformly
in their class anthologies. Although SIUE has stellar primary sources
available for undergraduate use in the Lovejoy Library, as yet, the English
Department has not incorporated them into its curriculum. This project
proposes 1) an evaluation of the resources available in Lovejoy Library and
the surrounding area that will be valuable to all of the University’s
humanities departments as they prepare to add rare materials into their
syllabi , 2) the creation of a senior assignment course in the English
Department that teaches students how to use rare books and manuscripts in
their research, as well as how these rare materials correlate with new
digital technologies, 3) the design of a website and library exhibit that
raises awareness of SIUE’s Special Collections and their innovative use
in the classroom. 10-06 Fries Ryan,
Department of Civil Engineering Zhou Huaguo,
Department of Civil Engineering Civil
Engineering Traffic Signal Education Award Amount
-$9,324 Traffic signals are a key device to
transportation engineers. As students learn about these tools, a tragic
signals lab is proposed to offer hands-on experience. The focus of this
proposal is to seek funding to support student participation in installing a
traffic signal lab and evaluating the impact on undergraduate learning.
During the project, undergraduate students in civil and electrical
engineering will create simple circuit boards that mimic the logic of
existing traffic signals. In the civil engineering curriculum, six
undergraduate courses are offered in the transportation engineering field,
four of which can directly benefit from this project. Using the traffic
signal lab during these four courses is expected to impact approximately 90
undergraduate students per academic year. It is anticipated that these
students will gain a better understanding of the operation of traffic signals
when taking a hands-on approach using the proposed traffic signals lab. 10-07 Glassman
Jack, Department of Physics Foster
Thomas M., Department of Physics Development
of a curriculum and manual for a new Physics course Award Amount
-$7,7933 To develop a curriculum and write the
manual for a new laboratory-based Physics course. 10-08 Gordon
Chris, Department of Construction Creation of
Sustainable Construction course Award Amount
-$7,000 Currently, there is great demand for
knowledge of design and construction practices that reduce the social and
environmental impact of the built environment. This demand is being reflected
in rising standards of what constitutes a “green building” and
more formal expectations of knowledge of these practices. The emergence of an
updated LEED 2009 requirement for green building professionals, as explained
below, requires green building experience or documented educational
preparation to attain accreditation as a green building professional. This
educational preparation is not formally available in the Dept. of
Construction's curriculum. Hence, the PI is proposing initiation of a new
course in Sustainable Construction
to prepare students to enter this emerging field. 10-09 Hanson
Laura, Department of Theater & Dance The Theatre
Experience Award Amount
-$1,500 This project would supply professional
theatre experiences to the members of the five New Freshman Seminar sections
of THEA 111: “The Dramatic Experience,” scheduled for fall 2009.
This course introduces students to the nature of live theatre, enabling them
to become more astute and appreciative audience members, to increase
aesthetic awareness of theatre as an art form, and appreciate the role of the
arts in human history. Since theatre is a live performing art form, it is
essential that those studying it experience theatre firsthand; this is truly
student involved learning. Professional theatre is of an entirely different
caliber than those these students may have seen on the high school or even
college level. Members of the class will discuss and write critiques of
productions viewed, using material they have learned in class to evaluate.
Since many students come from smaller communities without access to the arts,
especially live professional theatre, this program offers an opportunity to
enrich their college experience and introduce them to the cultural resources
of the 10-10 Hershberger
Edmund, Department of Management & Marketing 2010 AMA
International Collegiate Conference Case Competition and Exhibit Award Amount
-$6,420 Spring 2010 semester will be the fifth
year for the SIUE Marketing Association' s participation in a marketing case
competition sponsored by the American Marketing Association, an
internationally recognized organization of marketing practitioners, educators
and students. The case competition tasks each participating university with
the challenge of a solving the sponsoring firm's marketing problem. Past
clients have included high profile clients such as Krispy Kreme, Michelin,
Kwik Trip, the City of 10-11 Hildebrandt
Kristine A., Department of English Language and Literature Expanding
Interdisciplinary Connections in the Teaching of Linguistics at SIUE: Two New
Courses Award Amount
-$5,050 This project focuses on the creation of
two new Linguistics courses to be offered through the Department of English
Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE)
during the 2010-2011 academic year: Language
and Ethnicity (to be cross-listed with the Black Studies program) and Language Endangerment and Death (to be
structured with collaboration from faculty in multiple departments in the
College of Alls and Sciences). The goals of these new courses are two-fold:
First, they will promote interdisciplinary pedagogy in the form of
Linguistics courses that will actively reach into domains of socio- cultural,
political, economic and geographical thought, allowing for collaboration
between faculty in different departments, and appealing to a wide range of
students from diverse undergraduate backgrounds. Second, these courses will
include an innovative, interactive and publicly attractive form of student
assessment in the form of webpage and poster projects, that will promote the
courses to the wider university and local community, and build up the rest of
the Linguistics program, particularly the undergraduate component, at SIUE. 10-12 Hildebrandt
Mark L., Department of Geography To Establish
a Climatology Minor at SIUE Award Amount
-$6,118 The Department of Geography currently
has approximately 130 undergraduate majors, many of whom have expressed an
interest in Minoring in Climatology. At present, no such minor exists even
though many courses are already in place towards such a minor. This project aims to establish an actual
Minor in Climatology, including the altering of a pair of courses already on
the books and the development of a new course: Climate Change that will
expose our students to the issue of past as well as contemporary climate
change. This minor will provide our students with the tools to address future
issues of climate change. 10-14 Jarosz
Krzysztof, Department of Mathematics & Statistics Math 120
& Math 125 Students manuals Award Amount
-$2,520 The two biggest classes offered by the
department are Math 120 (College Algebra) and Math 1 25 (Precalculus). Last
year we offered total of 56 sections of these classes taken by nearly 2,000
students. Tenured or tenured track faculty members taught only two sections;
instructors, lecturers, and Teaching Assistants taught the remaining 54
sections. In this setting it is crucial to establish clear and uniform
standards for all of the sections. I plan to prepare Students Manuals for
both classes. The manuals, approximately 70-80 pages each, will include a
sample quiz/test with solutions for each section in the textbook, typical
homework assignments, as well as extra problems, class rules, a sample of a
final exam, and other information. The Manuals will be sold to students in
our Bookstore or available on-line. I ask for one course release time from
teaching to work on this project. 10-15 Jarrell J.
Calvin, Department of Theater & Dance Guest
Artists fromm Award Amount
-$3,463 In this proposal I am requesting $30,278.00
to bring Maestro Juan Miguel Mas, and the Danza
Voluminsa Dance Company from 10-16 Kaplan David
H., Department of Physics Thomas M.
Foster, Department of Physics Continuation
of Development of Waves Physics Curriculum and Learning Materials Award Amount
-$8,473 Waves and wave motion are pervasive
throughout the Universe and throughout an extremely wide range of physical
phenomena and technological applications, including for example, all modern
communications technologies. Thus, success in upper division physics and
engineering courses now depends on a solid foundation in wave physics. For
this reason, it is now widely recognized that a special course dedicated to
the unified study of wave phenomena early in the undergraduate physics
sequence offers major pedagogical advantages as well as significant
advantages for addressing a recent, but entrenched national issue in
retaining physics students. Recognizing the need for more extensive
training in this important area, the University has approved, and the SIUE
Physics department plans to offer regularly, beginning in Spring 2010, a new
expanded 4 crh course on the physics of waves. This new course will be
required of all SIUE physics majors. As there is no text suitable for such a course
currently on the market, with EUE support, the author has developed detailed
modular text and learning materials for it. This proposal is for funding to
allow the author to continue this work during Summer 2009. With an
anticipated sabbatical leave during the Fall of 2009, this will allow
remaining needed detailed source text and learning modules to be ready for
the first offering of the new SIUE Waves Physics course. 10-17 Karacal S.
Cem, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Program SIUE Engineering
Summer Course inn Award Amount
-$13,000 In 2007, SIUE Industrial and
Manufacturing Engineering program started a dual-diploma program in
Industrial Engineering with Istanbul Technical University (ITU). At present time,
the flow of students is one way from ITU to SIUE. The engineering students at
SIUE do not take advantage of this strong alliance with ITU by visiting their
campus to gain valuable international experience. The dual-diploma program is
a successful reflection of the technological globalization idea. By exposing
students to technical education in two separate institutions and expanding
their perspective not only in academics, but also in life style, language,
and culture, we are hoping to produce graduates who have global perspective
on technical issues and familiar with systems and peoples other than their
own. To provide a similar opportunity to SIUE students, I would like to take
about 10 of our engineering students to ITU for a summer course. The Managing
Engineering and Technology course, IME 430, is a popular technical elective
enrolled by all engineering disciplines and offered only in summer semesters.
Together with a colleague at ITU, I am planning to offer the course at ITU in
summer of 2009. Since our student population won't be able to afford the
travel and living expenses by themselves, EUE support is sought for this
endeavor. The project is expected to have a lasting impact on participating
student's world view and professional perspective. 10-18 Liebl Faith
L. W., Department of Biological Sciences The Impact
of the Laboratory Experience on Student Outcomes in Neurobiology Award Amount
-$3,840 Neurobiology (BIOL 444) is a course that
examines how the nervous system functions. The course is divided into a
lecture (BIOL 444a, 3 credits) and an optional lab (BIOL 444b, 1 credit)
portion. I have developed the laboratory with the following objectives: 1) to
allow students to conduct a hypothesis- driven experiment to perforce how
science is discovered, 2) to develop the student's ability to analyze and
integrate new information, and 3) to enhance his/her critical thinking and
writing skills. Therefore, I would like to implement a novel experiment to
give students the opportunity to discover the relationship between olfactory
memory in the fruit fly, Drosophila
melanogaster, and the proteins that partly mediate memory in mammals,
glutamate receptors. It is hoped that by taking the laboratory portion of the
course, student outcomes will improve. That is, students will better
understand the lecture and lab material and further develop writing and
critical thinking skills. This will be assessed by comparing student course
grades (between students who take lecture only versus students who take both
lecture and lab), comparing student pre- and post- tests, and evaluating
summative student evaluations. 10-20 Mann J.
Debbie, Department of Foreign Languages and Literaturee Award Amount
-$4,040 This EUE grant requests support to
reduce costs for seven students and one faculty member participating in an
international travel-study program in 10-21 Nwacha
Barbara JK, Department of Art & Design AIGA
Biennial Design Conference Award Amount
-$2,000 AIGA (American Institute Graphic Arts-the
professional design association) will hold its biennial conference October
Thursday 8—Sunday 11, 2009, at the 10-22 Panico
James, Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders FRIENDS and
Family Day Workshop: Families, Professionals, and Friends Working Together Award Amount
-$2,100 Undergraduate students majoring in the
field of speech-language pathology spend a significant amount of time in the
classroom learning basic concepts and fundamental information regarding
various speech and language disorders. Specifically, three of the relevant
courses they are enrolled in are SPPA 442 (Voice and Fluency Disorders), SPPA
446 (Clinical Methods and Observation), and SPPA 452 (Assessment Procedures).
However, it is not until the second semester of their senior year that they
get an opportunity to work hands-on with clients in a clinical setting.
Instead, much of the clinical information I provide to these students is
through personal experiences, video clips, and occasional guest speakers. FRIENDS, the National Association of
Young People who Stutter, is a non-profit organization created to provide a
network of support for children and teenagers who stutter, their families and
the professionals who work with them. This organization holds an annual
one-day workshop rotating through various universities around the country,
most recently being held on the campuses of Therefore,
having this workshop on the campus of SIUE would provide our undergraduate
students with a unique and innovative experience of learning from and working
with children who stutter and their families. Ultimately, this proposal would
affect approximately 70 undergraduate students who are enrolled within our
program. 10-24 Rigdon
Steven E., Department of Mathematics and Statistics Kniepkamp
Barbara, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Testing
Center for Mathematics and Statistics Award Amount
-$12,895 Most books in mathematics and statistics
now come with on-line testing/quizzing/homework software. For the books we
use in MATH 120, 125, and all three semesters of calculus (MATH 150, 152,
250), the software is called MathXL. To use this technology to the fullest
extent, we need a math testing center where students can come and sign in and
take tests or quizzes in a proctored environment. This will allow us to
continue the use of readiness skills tests for MATH 120 and 125 that was
begun in Fall 2006, and to use the quizzing software in MATH 120, 125, 150, 1
12a and 1 12b. These are some of the largest courses taught in the Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, and some of the largest courses taught at
SIUE. In Fall 2008, MATH 120, 125, and 150 had a combined enrollment of over
1500. This is the
second year of the three year project. 10-25 Rocha
Carolina, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Buenos Aires
Study Abroad Award Amount
-$12,000 This summer travel study project
requests funds to support 10 students and 1 faculty in 10-26 Schapman
Marc, Department of Music Sony –
5.0MP Handycam High-Definition Camcorder Award Amount
-$1,300 The purpose of this proposal is to
purchase a Sony High-Definition Camcorder to be used in all SIUE voice
program's applied lesson, voice performance class, voice studio class, and
SIUE Opera Theater's opera production. The camcorder will allow students to
receive visual feedback on their vocal technique and interpretation outside
of the classroom environment. The aural and visual feedback gained from this
camcorder will aid instructors in creating singers capable of competing in
the world of vocal performance, and this equipment will greatly enhance the
state of these courses. In addition, the camcorder will also be used to
create recordings of quality to promote the voice areas efforts and support
recruitment. 10-288 Formation of
Engineers Without Borders student chapter: Travel to Honduras 2010 Award Amount
-$3,555 This proposal is requesting EUE funds to
assist with the cost of travel/accommodations for engineering students to
participate in an Engineers Without Borders project in 10-29 Schmidt
Geoff, Department of English Language and Literature The
Writer-in-Residence Program Award Amount
-$7,000 The “writer-in-residence'' project
will bring one prominent writer to campus during the academic year 2009-2010.
This residence will last for two weeks. While we would love to have a
visiting writer stay for a longer period - a month, or a semester - we feel
that our best chance of attracting an important writer to campus is to
establish a shorter stay that can more easily fit into that writer's
schedule. During that time, the writer will be responsible for meeting with
all interested undergraduate creative writing students in intensive,
one-on-one tutorial sessions. The writer will lead at least one workshop at
the undergraduate level, and will conduct one seminar on matters of craft,
open to the public. The writer will give two public readings, one to be held
at the university, and one to be held at a local library, thereby strengthening
our ties with the community and serving as an effective recruiting tool. The
public reading will also generate local interest in co-sponsoring a
continuing reading series in years to come. 10-31 Shaul Kerry,
Department of Theater & Dancee Award Amount
-$4,000 The American College Dance Festival
(ACDF) is “the” yearly event in the 10-32 Sol Diane,
Department of Theater & Dance Native
American Performer Gerard Rancourt Tsonakwa Award Amount
-$2,984 This project would bring in Native
American performer, artist, and historian Gerard Rancourt Tsonakwa to SIUE in
November of 2009 to provide performances, workshops and lectures for majors
and minors (113, fall 2008) in the Department of Theater and Dance , as well
as the general education students who take THEA 111, The Dramatic Experience (365 students, fall 2008). The role of
cultural performance in theatre studies has gained momentum in recent years.
While recorded images and audio tapings are helpful in understanding and
appreciating performance and global culture, theatre is best experienced in a
live setting. Additionally, Tsonakwa would be able to instruct and guide the
students in the various aspects of storytelling, masks, impersonation, and
Native American sign language in performance. Tsonakwa has agreed to provide
choreography for a piece using his art work for projections for Dance in
Concert during the fall semester. Students would be able to experience
physically and emotionally the impact their participation has on the audience
in this venue. The students in general theatre education would be able to
apply critical thinking skills during the lectures and performances, as well
as increase their knowledge of theatre and cultural performances. 10-33 Theodorakis
Christopher, Department of Biological Sciences/ Environmental Sciences Program Enriching
the senior colloquium with contact and seminars from scientists outside SIUE Award Amount
-$8,928 Students trained in biological sciences
often go on to serve in professions with high importance to society (e.g.,
doctors, dentists, pharmacists). Thus providing a quality laboratory learning
experience is of high merit. As part of the teaching of science, all senior
undergraduate students are required to enroll in either BIOL 492 or BIOL 497.
Typically, students in the Genetic Engineering and Ecology, Environment and
Evolution degree tracks enroll in BIOL 492, which require a capstone oral
research presentation. This promotes engagement because students have the
opportunity to design and/or interpret experimental findings. Biology 492- Colloquium
in Biological Sciences - is a two-semester course. In both semesters, seminar
speakers from outside (preferably) SIUE or from SIUE faculty give oral
presentations on their research for the first 8-12 weeks of the course.
However, because there is currently limited funding available to pay for the
travel of seminar speakers, the number of institutions from which speakers
can be invited is limited to local universities and other research
institutions. Such an opportunity would serve biology major seniors. There a
typically 20-25 students enrolled in BIOL 492 per semester. The specific aim is to invite colloquium
speakers from outside the 10-34 Thomas
Reginald, Department of Music New Music
Premiere Award Amount
-$5,000 The jazz program at SIUE has become well
respected in the educational area. SIUE jazz faculty members teach and
perform throughout the country and are associated with quality organizations
such as Jazz at 10-35 Traub Cindy,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Weyhaupt
Adam, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Implementing
Webwork: an online homework and assessment tool Award Amount
-$16,653 The learning of mathematics requires
that students become both proficient in the mechanics of using a new idea as
well as fluent in the conceptual framework for when and why that idea is
necessary. For large section math courses, the regular collection and
assessment of hand-written homework problems requires too much time to be
feasibly completed by the course instructor. The lack of a mechanism to
provide students with ample, timely feedback on mechanics forces many of
those teaching mathematics to assess mechanics during class time. This
reduces the amount of class time available to measure student understanding of
deeper conceptual ideas. We seek to implement the Webwork online
homework system to provide instant feedback and assessment of student work in
large section mathematics courses. The pilot implementation will occur in
Math 112A (Mathematics for Elementary Teaching: Number Sense and Algebra) and
Math 150 (Calculus 1). Webwork will provide our students an opportunity to
practice the mechanical calculation-based tasks, and receive immediate
feedback on their performance. This will, in turn, allow faculty members to
assess deeper concepts via in-class assessments. The impact of implementing a Webwork
system at SIUE is potentially widespread. Over 850 students per academic year
take Calculus I, while approximately 180 students take Math for Elementary
Teaching. In Math 112A, we estimate that 2-4 class periods per semester can
be recovered for instructional time by changing the method of assessing
computational skills. 10-37 Voss Eric
J., Department of Chemistry Wiediger
Susan D., Department of Chemistry Laboratory
Manual of Experiments for CHEM 135: Engineering Chemistry Lab Award Amount
-$13,000 The Engineering Chemistry Laboratory
(CHEM 135) is a first-year course that focuses on the principles of chemistry
for students planning careers in engineering fields. Due to the specialized
nature of the course, there is no commercially available Laboratory Manual of Experiments (and it is unlikely there ever
will be). Instructional materials for thirteen of the eighteen experiments
currently performed have been developed over the past few years by the
Project Directors (some with EUE support) and have been distributed to
students piece-by-piece throughout each semester. This proposal requests
support to write instructional materials for five new experiments, to revise
all experiments into a common format, and to compile them into a bound Laboratory Manual of Experiments for
CHEM 135. Proposed new experiments are 1) graphing data using computers, 2)
molecular shapes, 3) thermochemistry, 4) intermolecular forces, and 5)
equilibrium. Having one laboratory resource for all experiments will
certainly improve the quality of the education of students taking the
Engineering Chemistry Laboratory course. This project also includes the
development of electronic “pre-lab” materials that will lead to
better student preparation and increased safety. This project will enhance
the experience of more than 200 students during 2009-10, as well as many more
students in future years. 10-38 Wei
Chin-Chuan, Department of Chemistryy Computational
Biochemistry for Undergraduate Chemistry and Biochemistry Courses Award Amount
-$6,366 Biochemistry has advanced rapidly over
the past few decades. To equip our students with up to date skills and
knowledge, we propose the integration of computational biochemistry in our
current undergraduate biochemistry curriculum. Computational biochemistry is
an emerging field that is an indispensable tool for budding biochemist. Individual
modules will be carefully selected and embedded into lectures and laboratory
sessions. Students will benefit from these modules, which are design
primarily to aid the learning process. We plan to develop a comprehensive set
of computational modules that is multifaceted and can be applied to
biochemical, medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry. We will take advantage
of free online resource and Linux-based computation to allow deployments of
these modules and provide easy access for our students. This developing
effort will benefit students taking biochemistry lecture courses (CHEM 451,
459), biochemistry laboratory (CHEM 455), and general courses like
introductory chemistry for Nursing students (CHEM 120n&b and 124n&b). 10-39 Wolff Laura,
Department of Economics and Finance Demonstrating
Competence and Enhancing Knowledge and Skills for International Trade Award Amount
-$4,625 In Spring 2010, the Economics and
Finance department will offer a seminar focused on developing the specific
knowledge and skills necessary for students to sit for a credential in
international business, called the Certified Global Business Professional
(CGBP). The knowledge and skills area assessed in this credential were
developed by a nationwide process funded partially by the Department of
Education. Area businesses are facing increasingly complex supply chains,
distribution networks, and complications in financing trade at the same time
that concerns about security and global terrorism are raising the costs and
consequences of complying with new regulations facing both exports and
imports. This proposal will allow the students in the course to get real
world experience by attending a top 10-40 Zhang Judy,
Department of Chemistry/Environmental Sciences Program Development
of a New Course in Environmental Chemistry Award Amount
-$13,8322 Environmental Chemistry is an
interdisciplinary subject that has found many important applications in
environmental sciences and engineering and other aspects of human life.
Despite its relevance to chemistry, environmental sciences, and civil
engineering, currently there is no course offered at SIUE to teach
fundamental principles in this subject area. The purpose of this EUE project
is to develop an undergraduate course teaching environmental chemistry; eight
modules will be developed along with representative experiments. Upon
successful completion of this course, students from Chemistry, Environmental
Sciences, and Civil Engineering will learn fundamental principles that govern
chemical processes in natural and engineered systems and will be able to
employ quantitative approaches to solving environmental problems including
water quality modeling, environmental risk assessment, contaminant
remediation, and water and wastewater treatment. Given many job and research
opportunities in the area of environmental studies, this course will make our
students more competitive in their future careers in either getting an
industrial job or continuing their higher education. 10-41 Zhou Huaguo,
Department of Civil Engineering Fries Ryan,
Department of Civil Engineering Development
of Traffic Simulation and Animation Modules for Transportation Engineering
Undergraduate Courses Award Amount
-$8,600 The practice of transportation
engineering and planning has evolved substantially over the past several
decades. A new paradigm for transportation engineering education is required
to better deliver knowledge and latest practice in the area of traffic and
transportation engineering. Conveying complex transportation concepts can be
effectively achieved by exploring them through computer simulation and
visualization techniques. Visualization techniques are particularly valuable
in transportation education because most transportation policies and
strategies in the real world take years to implement with a prohibitively
high cost. Despite the advantages, visualization techniques, however, have
not been widely adopted in the education of transportation engineering. The
Department of Civil Engineering owns the licenses of three traffic simulation
software: Highway Capacity Software (HCS), SYNCHRO, and TSIS. They are going
to be used to develop a suite of simulation and animation modules. These
modules will be incorporated in the undergraduate transportation courses: CE
376 Introduction
of Transportation Engineering, CE 474 Computer Simulation in Traffic
Engineering, CE 475 Transportation Planning, etc. With the hand-on nature of
visualization techniques, we expect to improve students' understanding of
critical concepts and theories in transportation engineering.. |
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