Tracy Volz

ORCID: 0000-0003-0907-9707
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Research Areas
  • Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
  • Biomedical and Engineering Education
  • Experimental Learning in Engineering
  • Problem and Project Based Learning
  • Design Education and Practice
  • Innovative Teaching Methods
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • Engineering Education and Pedagogy
  • Educational Assessment and Pedagogy
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Service-Learning and Community Engagement

Bridge University
2020

Rice University
1998-2020

Rice University's bioengineering department incorporates written, oral, and visual communication instruction into its undergraduate curriculum to aid student learning prepare students communicate their knowledge discoveries precisely persuasively. In a tissue culture lab course, we used self- peer-review tool called Calibrated Peer Review™ (CPR) diagnose gaps in skills on poster assignment. We then designed an active intervention that required practice the needed improvement CPR measure...

10.1007/s10439-017-1946-x article EN cc-by Annals of Biomedical Engineering 2017-11-03

Abstract Assessing Knowledge and Application of the Design Process in a First-Year Engineering CourseAuthentic, client-based projects form foundation one-semester freshman design course atXXXX University. The is an elective available for all students theSchool Engineering. First-year learn engineering process use it tosolve meaningful problems drawn from local hospitals, industry, community partners, XXXUniversity, international partners.The objectives are to (a) have practice designprocess...

10.18260/1-2--20094 article EN 2020-09-04

Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu an abstract Implementing Calibrated Peer Review™ to Enhance Technical Critiquing Skills a Bioengineering Laboratory Developed at UCLA, (CPR) is web-based tool developed help students improve their technical writing critiquing skills. In 2006 2007 we used CPR upper-level tissue culture laboratory course which conduct viability, attachment, proliferation assays using fibroblast cells. After...

10.18260/1-2--3128 article EN 2020-09-04

Young engineers entering an industry job are likely to be immediately placed into a division or team that is comprised of people from wide variety educational backgrounds. This will include other engineering disciplines and, depending on the industry, individuals with business, marketing, public relations, policy science work in progress describes our initial efforts implement and evaluate outcomes collaboratively teaching capstone design assigning interdisciplinary teams solve real-world...

10.1109/fie.2011.6142850 article EN 2011-10-01

Soft Skills - Keys to effective technical presentations. It happens many times in the oil industry. may even have happened you. Someone from R&D has just finished an oral report management about exciting, important project. But managers don’t appear grasp importance or understand concept presented. The result is no managerial enthusiasm with little support. What went wrong? Assuming that findings were potentially valuable company, perhaps presentation was ineffective. follows are...

10.2118/0210-022-twa article EN The Way Ahead 2010-06-01

Oral, written, and visual communication assignments have been successfully integrated into the curriculum in Department of Bioengineering at Rice University. Since most undergraduate courses developed last four years, opportunity existed to build a strong sequence activities individual courses. Faculty who specialize training from Cain Project were available collaborate course design, implementation, evaluation projects Seven eight core require projects; three popular track electives...

10.1109/iembs.2002.1053478 article EN 2002-01-01

Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu an abstract limited success. To improve the results, way constructive criticism on course was revised to include individual library papers. Feedback from students research reports, which were completed during evaluation not favorable (about 25% week class. These reports addressed indicated that this exercise very issues such as significant figures, error analysis, productive); quality papers...

10.18260/1-2--11909 article EN 2020-09-03

Abstract Panel Many engineering programs have recognized a need for discipline-specific writing instruction. Various methods been targeted to provide students with opportunities learn about technical professional practice as the context writing. Input from educators and industry professionals has helped develop instruction assessment. These valuable collaborations between classroom will help prepare write in setting.

10.18260/1-2--30856 article EN 2020-09-10
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