Building Student Capacity for High Performance Teamwork

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is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. For two decades he taught capstone design courses with multidisciplinary teams and developed instructional materials and assessments that enhance student team success. He is a Fellow of ASEE and an active consultant on engineering design education. Mr. Ronald R Ulseth P. E., Iron Range Engineering Ron Ulseth directs and instructs in the Iron Range Engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota and he teaches in the Itasca Community College engineering program in Grand Rapids, MN. He was instrumental in growing the Itasca program from 10 students in 1992 to 160 students in 2010. In 2009, he worked with a national development team of engineering educators to develop the 100% PBL curriculum used in the Iron Range model. He has successfully acquired and managed over $10 million in educational grants including as PI on 7 grants from NSF. He has been in the classroom, teaching more than 20 credits per year to engineering students for more than 20 years. His specific areas of expertise are in active learning, faculty development, and learning community development. He has been awarded the 2012 Progress Minnesota award, 2012 Labovitz Entrepreneurialism award, and 2012 Innovator of the Year award from the Rural Community College Alliance all for his work in developing the Iron Range Engineering program. His degrees are in civil engineering (B.S., University of North Dakota), and mechanical engineering (M.S., University of Central Florida). He is licensed as a professional engineer in the state of Minnesota

Using Case Study Research as an Active Learning Tool for Demonstrating the Ability to Function on Multidisciplinary Teams

“…Since the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 accreditation, efforts to satisfy Criterion 3(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams have resulted in a large literature on the topics of team-based learning, 1 collaborative learning, 2 learning organization, 3 effective teams, 4,5 intrateam communication, 6 team skills, 7,8,9 implementing design projects, 10 assessing learning level, 11 and improving students' ability to function in teams. 12 To make sure students can satisfy this requirement, engineering programs try to provide team-oriented design projects through a student's college education starting from freshman year and culminating with a capstone design project in the senior year.…”