Enhancing EML in First Year Programs

Kim Bigelow, University of DaytonPatsy Brackin, Rose-Hulman

Kristina Ropella, Marquette University

Session GoalsTo collect best practices and generate new ideas for enhancing EML in First-Year Programs to: Provide a basis for a guidebook on EML in First-

Year Programs Inform the design of a 2016 workshop on EML in

First-Year Programs Potentially identify an EML in First-Year Programs

working group

Plan for this Session Introduction of Participants (10 minutes) Review of KEEN Framework (5 minutes) Hands-On Example of a Quick First-Year Exercise

and How it Maps to Framework (15 minutes) Review of Some Fun First Year Design Programs

and How They Map to Framework (15 minutes) Breakout and Small Group Discussion on what

EML can look like at the first-year level (30 minutes)

Report Outs (15 minutes)

ComplimentarySkills

reinforce the development

of an Entrepreneurial

Mindset

Design Challenge

• Nurses monitoring patients in the intensive care unit need for the bedside monitors to automatically alarm when a patient’s heart goes into an abnormal rhythm.

• You need to develop an algorithm (a series of rules) that a monitor will use to automatically alarm when appropriate.

At Rose-Hulman, freshmen in Introduction to Design are told to walk around campus and take pictures of what they see.

The University of Dayton’s EGR 103 Engineering Innovation course was first offered Fall 2008.

It is structured to represent, and has many similarities to, our year-long senior design capstone course

The course is structured around real-world problems presented by community partners.

Promising projects havebeen advanced in subsequent senior designcourses.

One easy, effective activity to get students recognizing opportunities is “The Bug List”.

CLASS ACTIVITY FOR INTRO TO DESIGN EXERCISES• What is one thing that bugs you in

your every day life? • Think-Pair-Share• Instructor narrows topics down to

three that will likely generate interesting solutions

• Class votes and that is used for activity

HOMEWORK – ADAPTABLE TO MANY DIFFERENT PURPOSES• Ex. Talk to 5 parents of small children and ask what daily tasks

bug them; What are 5 things that bug you about your dorm room• Pick one to focus on; think about how to find current best

solutions; explore them – is this still a problem to solve?

How might we Enhance the 3C’s in First Year Programs?

Pick a specific class: • What unique activities, assignments, and assessments do

you already use that would be helpful to share with others?

• What can you envision doing differently?

Each person should work individually for about 10 minutes.

Share your ideas with your groupSuggest ways to improve ideas

(10 minutes)

As a group, select two ideas to present to the entire group.

1. Which idea has the easiest implementation?2. Which idea has the potential for the most impact?

For each, what makes this idea especially appropriate for implementation at the first-year?

We will provide all participants with copies of all cards.

Thanks for your help in implementing EML!