1. Mechanical Engineering Building Blocks to Success

2. Introduction Amy Magas

3. Purpose Purpose: To enhance communication between faculty and students on courses and curriculum Given: Develop a student-centered, internet-based educational information processing system

4. Goals Convey course information Promote active learning Promote ISU standards Provide feedback Promote standard rubrics Engage and encourage high school students Involve industry Link research and education Increase diversity

5. Our Groups Rubrics Base Groups Courses Curriculum Coordinators

6. Coordinator Group To take on a leadership role within MEBBS To develop a standard and professional format for webpages To keep our professors informed about our individual groups To take an active role in helping with our groups To help our individual groups to meet their goals. To convey suggestions from faculty to students To make sure other students learn how to use and evaluate web pages.

7. Skills Acquired Leadership Organization Resourcefulness Web Design Departmental Issues

8. Topics Rubrics Curriculum Courses Base Groups

9. Rubrics David Harrington Wee-Han Tan Adam Gudenkauf

10. What are Rubrics? Guide and Assessment Tool Criteria Listed Example of Basic Rubric

11. Why Have Rubrics? Outlines Grading Illustrates Expectations Encourages Higher Standards

12. Advantages Clear Expectations Consistent and Unbiased Grading Scale to Show Progress For Any Assignment Reusable

13. Rubric Examples Oral Presentations Research Papers Journal Writing Class Participation Homework Assignments Class Outline Math Journal

14. Easy to Use and Create Basic Method Links Page –Ten Step Method –Templates –Software Links

15. What We Have Learned Value of Rubrics HTML Group Project Management

16. Curriculum Information Introduction Flow Chart Course Topics Curriculum Feedback

17. Course Webpages Tom Duncan

18. General Overview Advantages Convenience Speed Accessibility Reusability Design of Pages Standard Format Professor Designed Student Oriented Ease of Navigation Development Time

19. Skills Acquired HTML Knowledge Network Speed ME Department Classes Networking

20. Examples Index of Classes Professor Molian’s ME322 Page

21. Recommendations “Recycling” One Student, One Professor

22. Base Groups Yoong-Guan Chen Martin Kurnadi

23. Base Groups History

24. Basic Elements of Cooperative Learning Positive Interdependence - “Sink or Swim” Face-to-Face Interaction - Students help and encourage each other Individual Accountability - Giving the comments back to the group on individual performance Small Group Skills - Leadership and communication help group to work effectively Group Processing - Groups to evaluate if they are achieving their goals and maintaining effective working relationships.

25. Webpage Elements Opinions Minutes Form Feedback from Students Feedback from Professors

26. Conclusion Cards Website In the future