2013 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference (ASEE NMSC) was hosted by North Dakota State University, at the Fargo Holiday Inn, Fargo, North Dakota, from October 17-18, 2013.
Dr. Karl Smith, the center co-director, presented the luncheon keynote, “Opportunities and challenges in First-Year Engineering (FYE) programs”
Dr. Smith and Ms. Sousada Chidthachack, a Ph. D student in Math Education, attended the conference. Ms. Chidthachack presented a paper entitled “Engineering Students Learn ABET Professional Skills: A Comparative Study of Project-Based-Learning (PBL) versus Traditional Students” in the conference. The paper was co-authored by Marc A. Schulte, Forster D. Ntow, Jia-Ling Lin, and Tamara J. Moore from the STEM Center.
http://www.whavenlabs.com/ASEEConference/html/papers/ASEE-NMWSC2013-0021.pdf