The number of international students in our undergraduate engineering classes has duplicated in the last 10 years. Nowadays, the undergraduate engineering classes at Purdue have approximately one international student per every three domestic students.

Students come to the science classroom with pre-conceived ideas about different science phenomena. To make sense of the physical world around them, students construct internal representations known as mental models.

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) has emerged as a key area of research in educational technology and learning but we have limited understanding of how and why technologies support collaborative learning.

There have been repeated calls to improve engineering education, but are we doing everything we can to promote student success and improve student learning? Are we translating the ample research about effective teaching into actual classroom practice? What can we do to bridge the research-to-practice gap and accelerate the adoption of evidence-based teaching practices?

Children's activities mark the end of National Engineers Week.

In this talk, McMullen and Winkler will discuss their artistic and interdisciplinary collaborative practices as faculty in the Electronic and Time-based art program. Through a presentation of three current projects – Soybots, the Algorithmic Gardener and 20/x – they will describe their approach to/strategies for generating images, interactions and conversations around emergent technologies and cultural imaginaries.

The theme of this seminar is data management.