Service

Selected Offices / Leadership Roles in Professional Organizations:

• National Science Foundation - Ad hoc review panel member and chair, 1995 to present
• ASEE Mechanics Division, Program Chair Elect, 2001-02
• ASEE North Midwest Section Campus Representative, 1999-01
• ASEE NDSU Campus Representative, 1994 to present
• ASEE North Midwest Section Chair, 1996-97
• ASEE Mechanics Division, executive member, 2000 to present
• The only member who was outside of the host institutions and was inducted to serve on the ASEE Regional Conference Organizing Committees at the University of Iowa, 1997 and University of Minnesota, 2000
• Member of the Program Committee for the International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice held in Australia, 1999
• ASEE Graduate Studies Division, Chair-elect, 1997-98
• ASEE Graduate Studies Division, Secretary/Treasurer, 1996-97
• ASEE New Engineering Educator Division, Secretary/Treasurer, 1994-96

Selected Leadership Roles and Committee Service on Campus:

• Leading a team of 15 faculty, staff, and administrators for the project, “Building A Caring Community of Leaders and Problem-solvers (CCLP): A National Model for Reconsidering the Role of Higher Education in Society.”

· The project proposal is under consideration by the Bush Foundation with a request for funding of $450,000 over a three-year period.

· Developed, conducted, and analyzed a survey of student engagement to study the impact of Cooperative and Problem-Based Learning. This was given to about 1800 students in 56 classes in Spring 2001 and over 7500 students in about 200 classes in Fall 2001.

• Chair of the Bush Foundation Project’s Committee on Problem-Based Learning (PBL), and Director of the Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning, 1999 to present. We have organized university-wide faculty development workshops and pedagogical luncheons in which over 250 faculty members have participated in the last two years.
• Member, Board of Directors, NDSU Research Foundation, 1999 to present
• Member, the NDSU Advisory Board for Student Affairs. 2000 to present
• Co-chair of the Board of Peer Review of Teaching, 2002 to 2003
• Member of the team to plan President Chapman’s visit to India for enhancing collaboration with NDSU, 2000-01
• Member, the Residence Life Advisory Board, 2002 to present
• Member, the Faculty in Residence Advisory Board, 1999-01
• Member of the University Information Technology Roundtable; 1996-98
• Member of the Technology Fee Advisory Committee; 1998-00
• Member of the Technology Enhanced Learning Committee; 1999
• Member of the President Chapman’s Inauguration Committee, 1999-00
• Member of the University Senate and the Senate Executive Committee, 1994-95
• College Marshal for commencements, 2001 to present

Selected Workshops/Seminars/Invited Presentation:

• “Does Teaching Imply Learning?” 44^th Faculty Lecture, April 2002.
• “Enhancing Student Learning,” a workshop presented to the graduate fellows of the NSF’s GraSUS program and high school teachers, October 2001.
• “Survey of Student Engagement: Results, National Comparison, and Faculty Recognition,” a university-wide pedagogical luncheon, September 2001.
• “Reforming Undergraduate Education: A report on faculty development activities at NDSU,” An invited presentation to undergraduate science and math teachers, Bismarck, ND, May 2001.

• “Enhancing Student Learning: Focus on Engineering Mechanics,” two workshops presented at Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, April 2001.
• “The Next Generation Principles to Enhance Student Learning,” A workshop presented at the Frontiers in Education, Kansas City, KS, October 2000.
• “Learning Materials for the 21^st Century,” An invited panel presentation at the ASEE North Midwest Conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 2000.
• “Recent trends in the US Undergraduate Education,” An invited seminar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, July 2000.
• “There Must be More to Life: Let’s Explore Together,” An invited Last Lecture Series Presentation, Residence Life, NDSU, April 2000.
• The Next Generation Principles for Enhancing Student Learning,” An invited seminar presented at University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, January 2000.

• Several other workshops on PC Based Measurements and Controls, Machine Vision, How to Make Classes Exciting and Rewarding, Funding opportunities with the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education, and Design optimization offered at NDSU and in the USA.

Recent Work Related to Statics

Statics is one of the first engineering courses taken by virtually all engineering and technology students in the US (over 100,000 students/year). With the help of the NSF Grant and support from colleagues, following items have been accomplished.

· Developed resource materials, “Statics: The Next Generation,” for teaching statics in a more interactive way. This has been published in electronic form by Prentice-Hall in 2001.

· Two faculty development workshops, "Enhancing Student Learning: Focus on Engineering Mechanics," were hosted by the Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, in April 2001. Over 25 faculty members participated in the workshops. On the scale of 1 to 5, 90 percent of the participants rated the usefulness of the workshops as "very high" (5), and other 10 percent of them rated it as "high" (4).

· Designed, developed, and implemented a web-based “National Statics Clearinghouse” database for statics instructors worldwide to post and access innovations related to teaching and learning of statics.

· Developed the first version of a web-based Math-Statics Baseline (MSB) Test for assessing impact of teaching strategies on gain in student understanding. About 1,500 students at NDSU and ASU have taken the test in the last two semesters.

· “Instructional Resources for Teaching Statics in the 21st Century,” received the best presentation award in the Mechanics Division Session at the 2001 ASEE Conference.

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