Tentative Schedule

Shaping the Future of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics,Engineering and Technology Education

Managing Reform

Assessing Success

Harnassing Technology

Tentative Schedule

Last Modified: May 19, 1998

Thursday May 28

2:00 - 4:00 Registration at the Cornhusker Convention Center

4:00 - 5:00 Opening Session. Shaping the Future of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education: Some Second Thoughts. Melvin D. George and Robert F. Watson

5:00 - 5:45 Small Group Response: Plans, Visions, Solutions

6:00 - 6:30 Reception with Poster Session

6:30 - 8:00 Banquet

8:00 - 9:00 Keynote: The Centrality of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education, Luther Williams, Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation.

9:00 - 10:00 Informal Reception, Cash Bar

Friday May 29

8:00 - 9:45
Plenaries: The K-12 / University Interface

A. The TIMSS Results: Inplications for Undergraduate SME&T Education, Gilbert Valverde, Associate Director US National Research Center - TIMSS.

B. National Education Standards and Undergraduate Education: Possibilities for Mutual Influence, Joan Ferrini-Mundy, National Academy of Sciences.

9:45 - 10:00 Break

10:00 - 10:55 Plenary: Congress, Science, and Educating the Two Cultures, Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers (R-MI), chair of the National Science Policy Study.

10:50 - 11:50
Parallel Sessions:

Calculus and Pre-Calculus Reform, Deborah Hughes-Hallet, Harvard Univ.

Engineering Criteria 2000: New Freedoms, New Requirements, Dayne Aldridge, Auburn U., Chair of the Commission on Engineering Accreditation

The Challenge of Shaping the Future: What We Do Determines Who We Are, Carol Mitchel, University of Nebraska-Omaha

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:30 -3:00
Workshops on Technology and New Pedagogy, UNL campus:

Learning in Context and on a Need-to-Know Basis, A. Malcom Campbell, Biology, Davidson College

Testing using the WWW, John Orr, Math & Stat, UNL

Low Tech Methods for Large Class Active Engagement Teaching: A Brains-on Demonstration and Discussion of Peer Instruction, Eric Mazur, Physics, Harvard University

Active Learning in Large Lectures using Multimedia, John Scheer, Health and Human Performance, UNL

Dean's Session, Dean Brian Foster, UNL

Long Term Results of Teaching Innovations in a Large Introductory Geology Class, Sanford Kaplan, Geosciences, UNL

Cooperative Learning in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, Karl Smith, Civil Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota

Multimedica and Distance Learning in Engineering, George Meyer, Biological Systems Engineering, UNL

Just-in-Time Teaching with the Web, Andrew Gavrin, Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University

Breadth before Depth in Introductory Computer Science, Charles Riesedel, Computer Science, UNL

NSF-DUE Proposal Development, Robert Watson and Frank Wattenberg, NSF

Computer-Intensive Physics, Robert Fuller, Physics, Steven Dunbar, Mathematics and Statistics, UNL

3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 4:15

4:15 - 5:15

Parallel Panels:

A. The Industry/Business/Government Viewpoint: Paul Kenyon, Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Omaha, NE; David Murphy, Midwestern Higher Education Commission; Louis Pugliese, TCI, Denver, CO; Dorothry Heidemann Nelson, Novartis Consumer Health, Lincoln, NE.

B. NSF Funded projects. Discipline Based and Institutional Based Reform: Bruce Birkett, UC Berkeley; Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Harvard University; James Swartz, Grinnell College.

5:15 - 8:00 Dinner on your own

8:00 - 9:30
Evening Program (open to the public)

The Mars Exploration Program, Thomas C. Fraschetti, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Saturday May 30

8:00 - 9:00 Plenary: Assessment in SME&T Education Reform: Examples, Process and Context, Susan Millar, Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation and Dissemination Center, University of Wisconsin.

9:00 - 10:00
Workshops on assessment and the management of educational change:

Project Nova: Creating Change in Higher Education, Paul Adams, Linda Kallam, and Germaine Taggert, Fort Hays State University

Change at Veryfine College: Managing Educational Change in Colleges and Universities, Alice Krueger and Deborah Jordan, HPC at McREL

Sustaining Change in Educational Institutions, Dan Jesse, McREL

Making It Count: How to Evaluate Educational Reforms Meaningfully, Joshua Gutwill and Eileen Lewis, UC Berkeley

Thinking about Learning within an Assessment Framework: Exampes from a Large Introductory Chemistry Course, Brian Coppola, Univ. of Michigan

Learning How to Learn: A "Great Ideas" Winner, James Gregory and John Rivera, Texas Tech Univ.

NSF-DUE Proposal Development, Frank Wattenberg, NSF

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15 -11:30 Institutional / Discipline groups formulate plans and recommendations.

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:05 - 2:00 Planning recommendation reports

2:00 - 3:00 Plenary: New Directions at NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education, Frank Wattenberg, DUE-NSF.

3:00 - 3:30 Summary Remarks, Robert Hilborn and Mel Thornton, Co-Chairs, Conference Steering Committee, UNL

3:30 Conference adjourns. Leave confernece evaluation forms and written comments.

Thursday May 28
2:00 - 4:00	Registration at the Cornhusker Convention Center
4:00 - 5:00	Opening Session. Shaping the Future of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education: Some Second Thoughts. Melvin D. George and Robert F. Watson
5:00 - 5:45	Small Group Response: Plans, Visions, Solutions
6:00 - 6:30	Reception with Poster Session
6:30 - 8:00	Banquet
8:00 - 9:00	Keynote: The Centrality of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education, Luther Williams, Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation.
9:00 - 10:00	Informal Reception, Cash Bar

Friday May 29
8:00 - 9:45	Plenaries: The K-12 / University Interface A. The TIMSS Results: Inplications for Undergraduate SME&T Education, Gilbert Valverde, Associate Director US National Research Center - TIMSS. B. National Education Standards and Undergraduate Education: Possibilities for Mutual Influence, Joan Ferrini-Mundy, National Academy of Sciences.
9:45 - 10:00	Break
10:00 - 10:55	Plenary: Congress, Science, and Educating the Two Cultures, Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers (R-MI), chair of the National Science Policy Study.
10:50 - 11:50	Parallel Sessions: Calculus and Pre-Calculus Reform, Deborah Hughes-Hallet, Harvard Univ. Engineering Criteria 2000: New Freedoms, New Requirements, Dayne Aldridge, Auburn U., Chair of the Commission on Engineering Accreditation The Challenge of Shaping the Future: What We Do Determines Who We Are, Carol Mitchel, University of Nebraska-Omaha
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:30 -3:00	Workshops on Technology and New Pedagogy, UNL campus: Learning in Context and on a Need-to-Know Basis, A. Malcom Campbell, Biology, Davidson College Testing using the WWW, John Orr, Math & Stat, UNL Low Tech Methods for Large Class Active Engagement Teaching: A Brains-on Demonstration and Discussion of Peer Instruction, Eric Mazur, Physics, Harvard University Active Learning in Large Lectures using Multimedia, John Scheer, Health and Human Performance, UNL Dean's Session, Dean Brian Foster, UNL Long Term Results of Teaching Innovations in a Large Introductory Geology Class, Sanford Kaplan, Geosciences, UNL Cooperative Learning in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, Karl Smith, Civil Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota Multimedica and Distance Learning in Engineering, George Meyer, Biological Systems Engineering, UNL Just-in-Time Teaching with the Web, Andrew Gavrin, Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University Breadth before Depth in Introductory Computer Science, Charles Riesedel, Computer Science, UNL NSF-DUE Proposal Development, Robert Watson and Frank Wattenberg, NSF Computer-Intensive Physics, Robert Fuller, Physics, Steven Dunbar, Mathematics and Statistics, UNL
3:00 - 3:15	Break
3:15 - 4:15 4:15 - 5:15	Parallel Panels: A. The Industry/Business/Government Viewpoint: Paul Kenyon, Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Omaha, NE; David Murphy, Midwestern Higher Education Commission; Louis Pugliese, TCI, Denver, CO; Dorothry Heidemann Nelson, Novartis Consumer Health, Lincoln, NE. B. NSF Funded projects. Discipline Based and Institutional Based Reform: Bruce Birkett, UC Berkeley; Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Harvard University; James Swartz, Grinnell College.
5:15 - 8:00	Dinner on your own
8:00 - 9:30	Evening Program (open to the public) The Mars Exploration Program, Thomas C. Fraschetti, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Saturday May 30
8:00 - 9:00	Plenary: Assessment in SME&T Education Reform: Examples, Process and Context, Susan Millar, Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation and Dissemination Center, University of Wisconsin.
9:00 - 10:00	Workshops on assessment and the management of educational change: Project Nova: Creating Change in Higher Education, Paul Adams, Linda Kallam, and Germaine Taggert, Fort Hays State University Change at Veryfine College: Managing Educational Change in Colleges and Universities, Alice Krueger and Deborah Jordan, HPC at McREL Sustaining Change in Educational Institutions, Dan Jesse, McREL Making It Count: How to Evaluate Educational Reforms Meaningfully, Joshua Gutwill and Eileen Lewis, UC Berkeley Thinking about Learning within an Assessment Framework: Exampes from a Large Introductory Chemistry Course, Brian Coppola, Univ. of Michigan Learning How to Learn: A "Great Ideas" Winner, James Gregory and John Rivera, Texas Tech Univ. NSF-DUE Proposal Development, Frank Wattenberg, NSF
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15 -11:30	Institutional / Discipline groups formulate plans and recommendations.
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:05 - 2:00	Planning recommendation reports
2:00 - 3:00	Plenary: New Directions at NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education, Frank Wattenberg, DUE-NSF.
3:00 - 3:30	Summary Remarks, Robert Hilborn and Mel Thornton, Co-Chairs, Conference Steering Committee, UNL
3:30	Conference adjourns. Leave confernece evaluation forms and written comments.