ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Conference Theme: Engineering Education goes Online
Dates: April 17th, 2021 held virtually
The conference is co-hosted by the St. Lawrence Section Board Members and Cornell University.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Fees:
- Faculty and non-students: $20
- Students – Presenter: $10 per poster
- Students – Attendee only: $0
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The conference will be held using ZOOM and will be primarily composed of two technical sessions, a student poster session.
Awards and Rubrics
The following will be awarded at the conference. Rubrics can be viewed in the link for each award.
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- Best paper award for full papers
- Best diversity paper award for full papers
- Best poster award for student posters
CALL FOR PAPERS
You are cordially invited to submit an abstract for a paper, extended abstract, or student poster to share at the 2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section’s Annual Conference.
We welcome all those who are interested (faculty, researchers, graduate students, post-docs, and undergraduates)! Suggested and potential topics include:
- best practices
- remote teaching and learning
- the hybrid classroom
- accommodating students’ and faculty’s unique needs in a time of crisis
- work to share related to engineering or engineering technology education beyond this year’s theme
Abstracts for a webinar workshop or panel presentation will also be considered.
If you had an abstract accepted for last year’s conference, we invite you to resubmit your abstract for the opportunity to share your work with an audience this spring. Please include a note explaining that it was accepted for the 2020 conference. Submissions from last spring’s conference will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
Requirements, recommendations, and formatting
Abstracts
- Abstracts should be less than 5000 characters in length, well-written, and succinctly summarize the work to be presented.
- All abstracts should be written in good English and proofread.
- Good practices indicate an abstract should contain enough new information, contain a clear objective and/or hypothesis, a clear and concise summary of essential methods, results, and conclusions.
- For work in progress, abstracts should disclose primary findings and should avoid promissory statements such as “experiments are in progress” or “results will be discussed”.
Papers and Extended Abstracts
Anticipated Schedule for Papers and Extended Abstracts
- December 7, 2020 | Abstract submission open
- Extended deadline: January 21, 2021 | Abstracts for papers and extended abstracts submission closes
- March 1st | Draft extended abstracts and papers due
- April 9, 2021 | Final extended abstracts and papers due
CALL FOR STUDENT POSTERS
Abstracts are now being accepted for student posters and lightning talks at the upcoming ASEE St. Lawrence Section virtual meeting in April. We welcome student presentations about undergraduate or graduate research projects, or students may put together a poster/presentation about a class project. Submissions can be from individuals or teams, and a variety of visual formats will be accepted for this virtual setting.
Abstracts should be less than 3000 characters, well-written and include the following:
- the goal of your project (design goal or research hypothesis or implementation goal)
- the process used in implementing the project
- a brief description of data collected
- the final outcome of your project
- the academic field/department or topic of your project
Presenters will have 5 minutes to present the highlights of their work followed by 5 minutes of discussion with an audience. Presenters can use slides, or a traditional poster or some other creative visual to accompany their presentation.
Anticipated Schedule for Student Posters
- March 15, 2021 | Abstracts for student posters closes
- April 7, 2021 | Final student posters due
CONTACT US
Conference chair: Kathryn Dimiduk – klc78@cornell.edu