Distinguished Lectures

Session # 2303 - How People Learn: Incorporating Theory and Research into Instructional Practice

Salt Palace Convention Center
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
10:30 a.m. – Noon

Dr. James W. Pellegrino
Professor, Psychology and Education
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Learning, Instruction and Teacher Development
University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr. Pellegrino's lecture will focus on how the scholarship of discovery and the scholarship of teaching and learning can be can be combined to produce a more informed faculty member of the future. Dr. Pellegrino is a pioneer in the uses of technology and media to create meaningful learning and instructional environments. He has been engaged in research and development activities related to children's and adult's thinking and learning and the implications for assessment and instructional practice for over twenty five years.

Dr. Pellegrino is currently a Distinguished Professor in Psychology and Education and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Learning and Teacher Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Pellegrino is internationally renowned for his research efforts on human learning and memory, individual and developmental differences in human cognition, and his work on applications of cognitive research and technology to the design of learning environments and assessment designs for K-16+ educational settings. He received his B.A. from Colgate University with a major in psychology, and his M.A. and Ph. D. in experimental and cognitive psychology from the University of Colorado.

Sponsoring Division: Educational Research & Methods

Session #2305 - Library Systems as if Users Mattered

Salt Palace Convention Center
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
10:30 a.m. – Noon

Roy Tennant
Manager, eScholarship Web & Services Design for the California
Digital Library

Libraries provide access to a diverse range of resources that seem to defy building simple user interfaces. But there are nonetheless things that can be done to make library systems easier to use and more effective. And in a Google world, librarians must get good at creating such systems or be content with being ignored by all but an ever smaller minority of information seekers. Come hear what libraries can and should do to better fulfill their missions, in a presentation aimed at both librarians and library users.

Mr. Tennant is an award winning, internationally recognized pioneer in digital library development and Internet training. As User Services Architect for the California Digital Library, he works to explore new methods of resource discovery and scholarly publication. Mr. Tennant has written and edited four books (one in press) and published dozens of articles. Since November 1997 he has written the monthly column "Digital Libraries" for Library Journal. He also developed the popular network publication Current Cites, which provides monthly reviews of information technology literature, and has been published continuously since 1990.

Supporting Division: Engineering Libraries Division

Session # 2390 - K-12 Engineering: The Future Is In Our Hands

Salt Palace Convention Center
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
10:30 a.m. – Noon

Dr. Jacquelyn Sullivan
Co-Director, Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, and
Director of K-12 Engineering Outreach
College of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr. Sullivan will address the imperative for engineering education to begin as early as elementary school as a component of basic literacy. An engineering education provides the skills to thrive in a global, change-driven society. Engineering experiences in the K-12 setting are compellingly effective at integrating science and math, and building upon the wonder of hands-on, scientific inquiry to prepare youngsters for a world where change and complexity are the rule. Exploring engineering much earlier in life will broaden access to the American dream, and provide people from all backgrounds opportunity to share in that dream. Through K-12 engineering, the Statue of Liberty's torch could begin to light the way for all youth within our borders. Challenges abound as university engineering and K-12 educators begin working together to create seamless K-16 engineering experiences that spark the imaginations of youth and give them the means to embrace the challenges of tomorrow. Together, let's explore the opportunities this new frontier presents, and the models being implemented as we ride the crest of the wave to arrive at destinations today unseen to us.

Jacquelyn Sullivan is founding Co-Director and Director of K-12 Engineering Outreach for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, focused on integrating hands-on engineering throughout the K-16 learning experience. Dr. Sullivan had 13 years of engineering and leadership experience in industry prior to joining CU's College of Engineering. At CU she initiated an extensive K-12 engineering outreach program for teachers and under-served youth. She currently leads a multi-institutional initiative to create an online, searchable, standards-based, digital library collection of K-12 engineering curricula, as well as Department of Education and NSF grants that promote in-classroom K-12 engineering instruction. She received her Ph.D. in environmental health physics and aquatic toxicology from Purdue University.

Session #3305 - Computing Through the Curriculum: An Integrated Approach for Engineering

Salt Palace Convention Center
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
10:30 a.m. -Noon

Dr. Thomas F. Edgar
Associate Vice President of Academic Computing and Instructional Technology Services (ACITS) at the University of Texas at Austin

Many engineering departments are wrestling with the following questions:

• When should computing be introduced to the engineering student?
• Should formal computer programming be taught to all engineering students?
• Which software tools (MATLAB, spreadsheets, etc.) should be included in the curriculum?
• Is a course on numerical methods required?

Dr. Edgar's lecture will focus on the integration of computing throughout the engineering curriculum: Why, how, and where it is headed. It is desirable that the computing experience for undergraduates in engineering should have continuity and that it be coordinated from course to course. Background information includes a survey of recent B.S. engineering graduates on computing practices in industry.

Thomas F. Edgar holds the Abell Chair in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Edgar received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His professional honors include the AIChE Colburn Award, ASEE Westinghouse, Meriam-Wiley, and Chemical Engineering Division Awards, ISA Education Award, and AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award. He has published over 200 papers in the field of process control, optimization, and mathematical modeling of processes such as separations, combustion, and microelectronics processing.

Supporting Divisions: Chemical Engineering, Computers in Education

Session # 3301- The Changing Face of Engineering

Salt Palace Convention Center
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
10:30 a.m. -Noon

Dr. Kristina Johnson
Dean, Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University

The last twenty years have seen enormous changes in engineering in part due to the Bayh/Dole Act, the authorization of National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers, a decrease in the number of students entering engineering, and an increase in its diversity. Dr. Johnson's lecture will examine the impact of these changes and explore their influence on the future face of engineering education.

Dr. Johnson joined Duke University in 1999 as Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before joining Duke, Dr. Johnson served on the faculty at the University of Colorado from 1985-1999, as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and as co-founder and Director (1993-1997) of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center.

Dr. Kristina Johnson has published over 140 refereed papers and proceedings, and is author on over forty-two patents. A fellow of the Optical Society of America, Dr. Johnson has helped spin-off four companies from research groups and sits on several corporate Boards including Mineral Technologies, Inc (MTX:NYSE), Dycom Industries (DY:NYSE), Guidant (GDT:NYSE), and Science Foundation Ireland. She also serves on the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee to the Engineering Directorate (Chair 2003-2004).

Session #3390 - What Will it Mean to be Educated in the 21st Century?

Salt Palace Convention Center
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
10:30 a.m. -Noon

Dr. Judith A. Ramaley
Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources Directorate
The National Science Foundation

Dr. Ramaley's lecture will focus on the growing complexity of life and work in the 21st century and how it places great demands on educators to foster cognitive sophistication, emotional maturity and social responsibility so that our students can function in an increasingly global and technological age. Dr. Ramaley will explore engineering education in our approach to the development of a liberal arts education suitable for the exigencies of our new century.

Dr. Ramaley is a nationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. At the national level, she has served on numerous boards and committees and she maintains a career-long interest in higher education reform and the role of the higher education institution in civic responsibility, community and economic development. In addition to her position with the NSF, Dr. Ramaley is a presidential professor in biomedical sciences at the University of Maine, Orono, and a fellow at the University's Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy. Prior to her NSF appointment in August 2001, she was President of the University of Vermont from 1997 until 2001, and President of Portland State University in Oregon from 1990 to 1997.

Dr. Ramaley received her bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1963 and her doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966. She served for two years as a post-doctorate fellow at Indiana University, she was an American Council on Education fellow at the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha, where she served as associate dean for research and development. In 1982, Dr. Ramaley became the chief academic officer at the State University of New York at Albany. She also served as executive vice president for academic affairs for two years and as acting president for one semester at SUNY-Albany. Dr. Ramaley was the executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas from 1987 to 1990. She also is a presidential professor in biomedical sciences at the University of Maine-Orono and a Fellow at the University's Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy. Prior to her NSF appointment in 2001, she was President of The University of Vermont from 1997 to June until 2001, and President of Portland State University in Oregon from 1990 to 1997.

Session # 3391- The Internet and How it is Changing Engineering

Salt Palace Convention Center
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
10:30 a.m. -Noon

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Dr. John Schneiter
President
GlobalSpec, Inc.

Dr. Schneiter's lecture will address the evolution of the Internet and its influence on design engineering. He will discuss how the Internet has essentially changed the quantity and quality of new design projects - leading to new pressures on engineers and ultimately impacting the products they design, their employers and customers. In just a few short years, the way engineers work and perhaps more importantly, the way they buy products has fundamentally changed. Information gathering for the engineer has gone from a time-consuming exercise of reading catalogs and magazines, researching in libraries and attending trade shows to staying put at a desk and using the Internet. Entire teams of engineers are taking advantage of the Internet to accelerate various stages of product development. Working in teams online enhances idea generation, product design and implementation, design-chain automation and product sourcing - each participant doing more from his own desktop and Internet connection.

John Schneiter is co-founder of GlobalSpec, Inc. and serves as President. He has over 15 years of general management, operations and project management experience, including 12 years at General Electric's Corporate Research and Development Center. He has also held positions at MIT, GTE Sylvania and Exxon Production Research Company. Dr. Schneiter received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds fourteen patents, has authored six publications and has numerous GE management awards including the GE Aircraft Engines Bush Engineering Award.

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