Experiential Engineering Education

Closed during lunch

All events for Sunday, May 31 will take place at the University Club of McMaster – also known as the Faculty Club.  A map can be found by clicking here: http://ucmcmaster.com/About-Us/map.aspx

Presenters: Yaser Haddara, David Kidney and Walter Peace

Presenters: Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Robert Gorbet and Christopher Moraes

Presenters: Richard J. Aleong and David S. Strong

Presenters: Libby Osgood and Clifton Johnston

Presenters: Yaser Haddara, David Kidney and Walter Peace

Presenters: John Fagan and Kin F. Li

Presenters: Jake Kaupp and Brian Frank

Presenter(s): Art Heidebrecht

Presenters: Philippe Kruchten and David Strong

Presenters: Jake Kaupp and Brian Frank

Presenters: S. Bedi, A. Trivett, C.C.W. Hulls, K. Karim, W. Bishop, J. Grove, C. Rennick, J. Rathlin, J. Baleshta, A. Hurst, M. Robinson, S. Mohamed and M. Bristow

Presenters: John Donald, Erin Aspenlieder, Julie Vale, Karen Gordon and Ryan Clemmer

Presenters: Nancy Nelson

Presenters: Fabio Campi and Atousa Hajshirmohammadi

Presenters: Kevin Dunn and Terry McCurdy

Presenters: Elizabeth Kuley and Robyn Paul

Meet & Greet and Formalizing a Student Society

The CEEA member network has been steadily growing since its first conference in 2010 and as this network has grown, an increasing number of students have committed to engineering education, both as a research area and a profession. The primary goal of this workshop is to provide students attending the CEEA conference with an opportunity to network with one other. Participants will engage in a meet and greet activity followed by round table discussions of some successes and challenges that they have experienced in their education, or engineering education research. The secondary purpose of the workshop is to connect CEEA members, particularly student members, who may be interested in creating a Canadian Engineering Education Students’ Society. This part of the workshop will include a brainstorming session that will inform the possible goals, vision/mission statement, and future activities of a formalized students’ society, and will serve to gauge interest in the idea. This workshop is designed to build a network of students and other CEEA member supporters, aligning with CEEA’s goals of encouraging and supporting the development and sharing of best practices between Canadian engineering institutions as well as engaging students.

Closed during lunch

Professor Arshad Ahmad, McMaster Associate VP, Teaching and Learning.

Preparing Professionals and Leaders Using Community Engagement

Success and leadership in today’s global economy requires a sound foundation of disciplinary knowledge as well as a broader set of professional skills. As educators we seek to create learning environments where students can develop the needed knowledge and skills. Increasingly, research is pointing to experiences as a key to both deepen and broaden learning within our curricula. Community engagement offers many exciting opportunities for creating such learning experiences while students apply engineering knowledge and skills to develop solutions to meet compelling needs of the underserved. It can also help address other issues such as diversity and retention. These kinds of experiences have been shown to prepare students for leadership in industry and develop innovation and entrepreneurial skills. They also offer a way to leverage the resources within our universities and colleges to address needs of the underserved within our communities locally and globally. One of the successful programs in engineering community engagement is the EPICS Program founded at Purdue University. Lessons learned from the program will be highlighted along with how the program is used to meet programmatic outcomes across many disciplines. Researching findings from program will also be shared.

Cognition and Learning

Instructors and students both face daunting challenges. Instructors are under pressure to sufficiently cover course materials and teach important skills. Students are expected to learn a great deal of information and primarily guide their own learning outside of class. Thus, both instructors and students could benefit from easy-to-use strategies that support durable and efficient learning. Cognitive scientists have been systemically studying processes such as attention, memory and learning for more than 150 years. This rich resource of knowledge has been only recently applied to developing evidence-based interventions in education. In this talk, I’ll explore how cognitive principles can inform instructional design and critical issues in education to bridge the gap between the lab and classroom.

BUS 1: 5:30 pm

BUS 2: 6:00 pm

BUS 3: 6:30 pm

Buses will pick conference registrants up on campus to shuttle them to the Liuna Station Banquet Hall, starting at 5:30pm, with additional pick ups at 6:00 pm, and 6:30 pm.

Starting at 6:00pm, hors d’oeuvres will be served for the banquet reception. Registrants will receive one complimentary drink ticket, a cash bar will be available for further purchases.

Registrants will be asked to be seated for 7:00 pm for the start of the Banquet. At the conclusion of the Banquet, the buses will be shuttling conference registrants back to the hotels and to the main campus. http://www.liunastation.com/

For those driving the banquet hall address is : Liuna Station 360 James St N Hamilton, ON

Registration for the CEEA-ACEG Annual Conference will be in the lobby of the Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery (MDCL) – First Floor – Map: http://www.mcmaster.ca/uts/maps/mdcl1.html