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Professor Karl Smith |
December 2006
"Best Engineering Education Practices"
College Conclave for Engineering and Technology Faculty
About the Conclave
Led by Professor Karl Smith
- Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
- Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor
January 5, 2007, 9 am – 4 pm
Lunch included
Karl Smith will discuss concrete ideas on how to be a more efficient and effective teacher. This workshop will focus on best engineering practices with an emphasis on:
- Cooperative learning
- Problem-based learning
- Innovation
- Assessing individual student participants
Read more about Karl Smith below or visit his web site.
Conclave Schedule
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction of Karl Smith |
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| 9:10 a.m. | Pedagogies of Engagement—Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning
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| 11:45 a.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. | Innovation in a Team Environment
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| 2:30 p.m. | Benchmarking Progress (1-2 hours)
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Karl Smith...
- Received a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
- Named the Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
- Co-PI on two NSF-CLTs - Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) and National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) and co-PI on a NSF-CCLI-ND - Rigorous Research in Engineering Education: Creating a Community of Practice.
- Serves on the National Advisory Boards for the NSF-CLT Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning; and the National Academy of Engineering's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education.
- Served as a guest editor for the Special Issue of the Journal of Engineering Education on The Art and Science of Engineering Education Research and is editor-in-chief of the Annals of Research on Engineering Education.
- Received numerous awards including: Distinguished Service Award, Educational Research and Methods Division, American Society for Engineering Education; Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education; Outstanding Contributions to Cooperative Learning Award; Cooperative Learning Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association; Fellow, American Society for Engineering Education; Ronald J. Schmitz Award for his outstanding continued service to engineering education through contributions to the Frontiers in Education Conference, ERM Division of ASEE and Education Society of IEEE.
- Published numerous articles on the active learning strategies of cooperative learning and structured controversy, knowledge representation and expert systems, and instructional uses of personal computers.
- Conducts workshops on building research capacity, active and cooperative learning, problem formulation and modeling, project management and teamwork, and building small expert systems.
- Conducted faculty development programs on cooperative learning for hundreds of colleges and universities. His work has helped thousands of faculty learn how to involve their students in more active, interactive, and cooperative learning both during class time and outside of class. The effects of the work are significant in terms of creating a sense of belonging and membership in a community, as well as much more engaged and deep learning.
- Published written eight books including How to model it: Problem solving for the Computer Age (with A.M. Starfield and A.L. Bleloch), published by Burgess International in 1994; Cooperative Learning: Increasing College Faculty Instructional Productivity (with D. Johnson and R. Johnson), published by ASHE-ERIC Reports on Higher Education in 1991; Strategies for Energizing Large Classes: From Small Groups to Learning Communities (with J. Cooper and J. MacGregor) published in Jossey-Bass's New Direction for Teaching and Learning series in 2000; and Teamwork and Project Management published in McGraw-Hill's BEST Series in 2003.