Workshop
Schedule; July 12 - 15, 2009; Ruston,
Louisiana
Links to Course Materials
Other Important
Information
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1:45 |
· Van pickup from Monroe Regional Airport – David Hall
and Mark Barker · Pick up for dinner at 7:45 p.m. – David Hall and
Mark Barker |
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July 12 - Sunday Afternoon
and Evening (Introduction and Getting Boe-Bots ready)
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12:15 |
Pick up for lunch at 12:15
– John and Maryanna Easley |
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12:30 |
Van pickup #1 from Monroe Regional
Airport – Mark Barker |
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1:45 |
Van pickup #2 from Monroe
Regional Airport – David Hall |
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4:40 |
Van pickup #3 from Monroe
Regional Airport (Dean’s Car) – John Easley |
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4:45 |
Pick up at hotel for transport
to LA Tech – Mark Barker and David Hall |
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5:00 – 5:15 |
Meet & greet, name tags
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Ropp Center |
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5:15 – 5:25 |
Welcome – Stan Napper |
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5:25 – 5:45 |
Introductions – Jim Nelson · Introduction of LA Tech personnel · Introduction of visitors (name, institution, very
brief background) |
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5:45 – 6:20 |
Dinner provided (buffet
style meal) |
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6:20 – 6:40 |
Overview of LWTL by Stan
Cronk (as dinner continues) - video1, video2, video3
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6:40 – 6:50 |
Workshop overview – David
Hall and Mark Barker
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6:50 – 7:00 |
Walk over to Bogard Hall
129 |
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7:00 – 7:10 |
Pass out kits and memory
sticks – David Hall |
BH 129 |
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7:10 – 8:00 |
· Boe-Bot parts; assembly - David
Hall
· Put parts in plastic container for easy access |
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8:00 – 8:55 |
Interfacing PBASIC with
Boe-Bot – Kelly Crittenden · Copy contents of memory stick onto laptops · Install
PBASIC and show location of PBASIC help
· Connect computer to Boe-Bot and identify Basic Stamp · Write a program that uses the DEBUG command (print
command) |
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8:55 – 9:00 |
Review van pickup schedule
for Monday morning and sign up for morning exercise pickup |
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9:00 – 9:10 |
Transport visitors back to
the hotel – Mark Barker and John Easley |
July 13 - Monday Morning
(Boe-Bots and a taste of the LWTL approach)
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5:50 - 7:00 |
Morning exercise at LA Tech
Intramural Center - optional J
- David Hall · Pick up at hotel at 5:50 · Arrive at Intramural Center at 6:00 · Meet back at van at 6:50 · Arrive back at hotel at 7:00 · NOTE: You could shower at the intramural center and
walk to Bogard Hall if you want to exercise longer (10 minute walk) |
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7:30 – 7:40 |
Transport participants from
hotel to LA Tech – John Easley and Mark Barker |
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7:40 – 8:00 |
Breakfast provided |
BH 129 |
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8:00 – 9:50 |
· Organization of course materials on memory sticks and
LWTL website – David Hall (20 min) · 120 Class 3: breadboarding and PBASIC
programming – Krystal Corbett (30 min)
· 120 Class 5: KCL
– Jim Nelson (30 min)
· 120 Class 5: servos, PULSOUT,
Boe-Bot movement – Kelly Crittenden (30 min)
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9:50 – 10:05 |
Drinks and treats |
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10:05 - 11:50 |
· Class 5: variables;
Class 6: around
pencil exercise – John Easley (40 min)
· 121 Class 3: Capacitors;
121 Class 12: photoresistor &
RCTIME, scope – Mark Barker (40 min)
· Write a program that makes the Boe-Bot avoid a
flashlight - (25 minutes) |
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11:50 – 1:00 |
Lunch at the “Dawg House”
-– Mark Barker and John Easley drive vans (participants pay for this
meal) |
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July 13 - Monday Afternoon
(fabrication of pumps)
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1:00 – 1:55 |
Getting ready for pump
project · Overview
of pump project – Mikey Swanbom (15 minutes)
· 120 Class 11: Pump presentation
and safety
– David Hall (20 minutes)
· Drawing the parts (link 1, link 2) in SolidWorks, rapid
prototyping – Kelly Crittenden (20 min)
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BH 129 |
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1:55– 2:55 |
Fabricate and assemble
pumps using PP presentation |
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2:55 – 3:10 |
Drinks and treats |
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3:10 – 3:20 |
Pump testing - Glenn
Fardsalehi |
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3:20 – 3:40 |
Overview of other aspects
of ENGR 120 emphasizing pedagogy – Stan Cronk |
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3:40 – 4:45 |
Finish, test, and
troubleshoot pumps |
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4:45 – 4:55 |
Transport participants to
hotel – Mark Barker and John Easley |
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5:45 |
Transport participants from
hotel to restaurant - Mark Barker and
John Easley |
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5:55 – 7:00 |
Dinner at Ponchatula’s – New
Orleans style food -– Mark Barker and John Easley drive vans (participants pay for this
meal) |
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July 13 – Monday Evening
(fishtank project with focus on conductivity sensors)
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7:10 – 9:00 |
· Introduction
to fishtank project – Mikey Swanbom (20 minutes) ·
121 Class 8: switching relays · * 121 Class 8: switching
solenoid valves · RTD project – Hisham Hegab (20 minutes) ·
* 121 Class 11: temperature measurement
& RTD design · * 121 Class 12: RTD fabrication
process ·
Including fundamentals: material balance –
Stan Cronk (10 minutes) ·
* 121 Class 6: material
balance introduction
· * homework examples: 121 homeowrk 7 and 121 homework 8 · Including fundamentals: first law and heater
response time – Mark Barker (10 minutes) · * 121 Class 15: notes and 121 homework 14 · 121 Class 14: programming tips and a
starter program – David Hall 10 minutes)
· 121 Class 16: RTD circuit and calibration –
Mikey Swanbom (30 minutes)
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9:50 – 10:05 |
Drinks and treats |
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10:05 - 11:40 |
· Independent fishtank project work (example program 1, example program 2)
· As you work on projects, we will rotate through RTD
fabrication demos for groups of 4 – Hisham Hegab (15 minutes per group) |
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11:40 – 12:40 |
Lunch at the “Blue Light
Cafe” – a unique soul food experience
for the brave J 2nd lunch group:
“The Frothy Monkey” – local coffee shop that serves lunch (participants pay for this
meal) |
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12:40 – 12:50 |
Transport participants to
the hotel to drop laptops (and to change clothes if desired) |
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July 14 - Tuesday
Afternoon (ENGR 122; presentations from visitors, thinking ahead)
1:10 – 1:20
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Transport participants to
Lincoln Parish Park
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1:20 – 2:40
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5 to 10 minute optional visitor presentations – we will have a laptop and projector if needed. Participants talk about how their university handles first-year students, some educational innovation that they have implemented, . . . |
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2:40 – 2:50
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Sensors used in LWTL
curriculum and skill set – David Hall
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2:50 – 3:10
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ENGR 122 Open Ended Design – Kelly Crittenden
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3:10 – 3:25
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Break
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3:25 – 3:45
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Student panel |
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3:45 –5:10
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Group vision for the future
– Jim Nelson
Imagine yourself teaching
first-year engineering students 15 years from now, considering the current educational,
national, global, . . ., trends that you foresee as drivers. Thinking from different
points of view (traditional, cyber, sci-fi, optimistic, pessimistic), what should first-year engineering education be like?
1.
By yourself,
write down things that come to mind on Post-It notes. (10 minutes)
2.
Share the
things you wrote down with the others at your table. (20 minutes)
3.
One table at a
time, stand up and briefly tell the entire group what you came up with. Put
your smaller Post-It notes on several giant Post-It notes hung around the
room, trying to keep similar ideas together. Subsequent tables please give
the general gist of your discussion and emphasize differences from tables
presenting earlier. (20 minutes)
4.
Everybody mill
around to make sure the small Post-It notes are categorized appropriately on
the big Post-It notes, and add titles to each grouping - just grab a pen and
add a title that you think is descriptive. One large Post-It may contain 3 or
4 smaller categories. (20 minutes)
5.
Each person
will be given five voting stickers. Please put your stickers on the
categories that you see as having the most potential for moving forward from
where we are now. (10 min)
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5:10–6:20
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Informal discussions on group vision while results being tallied
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6:00 – 6:50
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Southern style fish fry
(provided)
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6:20 – 6:30
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6. Discuss the results of the group vision as dinner continues
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6:30 – 7:50
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Take van back to hotel OR free
time to enjoy the park. Lincoln Parish Park is home to a small lake, a
technical 10 mile mountain bike trail, and a 3.5 mile beginner mountain bike
trail. We will have a limited number of bikes, one canoe, and 2 kayaks that
you can use. Biking on the advanced mountain bike trail is an extreme sport.
There is also a walking path around the lake, and you may choose to take a
run on the beginner or advanced mountain bike trail. The temperature will be
in the 90s. Our pavilion at the park is air conditioned J.
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7:50 – 8:00
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Transport participants to
hotel -– Mark Barker and John Easley
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July 15 - Wednesday
Morning (fun, keys for sustainable project-based education, participant
planning)
5:50 - 7:00
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Morning exercise at LA Tech
Intramural Center - optional J - David Hall
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Pick up at hotel at 5:50
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Arrive at Intramural Center at 6:00
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Meet back at van at 6:50
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Arrive back at hotel at 7:00
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NOTE: You could shower at the intramural center and
walk to Bogard Hall if you want to exercise longer (10 minute walk)
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7:30 – 7:40
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Transport participants from
hotel to LA Tech -– Mark Barker and John Easley drive vans
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7:40 – 8:00
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Breakfast provided
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BH 129
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8:00 – 9:15
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Group vision exercise - Jim Nelson |
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9:15 – 9:45
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Implementing the Living
with the Lab curriculum – David Hall and Mark Barker
* parts for curriculum |
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9:45 – 9:55
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Quick break
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9:55 – 10:05
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Where to from here? – Stan Cronk |
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10:05 – 10:35
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Write down ideas for making one or more of your courses more
engaging. Nothing ventured, nothing gained J (10 minutes)
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Share your ideas with others in your group. (10 minutes)
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Collect responses from the entire group. (10 minutes)
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10:35 – 10:45
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Transport participants to
restaurant
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10:45 – 12:00
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Eating, concluding
comments, assessment
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12:00 – 12:10
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Transport participants back
to hotel to collect bags
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12:25
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Van #1 leaves Ruston for
Monroe Regional Airport – Glenn Fardsalehi
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12:30 – 2:40
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Frothy Monkey Coffee shop
visit for those who are interested in continuing conversations or just
catching up on email. A van can take you anywhere you want to go in Ruston,
such as our local library (just let us know).
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2:40
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Van #2 leaves Ruston for
Monroe Regional Airport – Mikey Swanbom
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July 16 - Thursday Morning
5:00
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Van leaves Ruston for Monroe Regional Airport –
David Hall
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