Science, Engineering, & Technology Education Conference
Friday, January 13, 2006
Senate Chambers, Corbett Center

Please submit a one page abstract and a 3-5 page paper electronically as an email attachment, using WordPerfect, Word, or Adobe, to jwatkins@pathfinder.nmsu.edu. Abstract deadline is Monday, October 17, 2005, paper deadline is Monday, November 28, 2005. For instructions on paper formatting requirements, see http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/NMSU/sete/instructions.html

To assure a high quality conference, all papers will be reviewed. There will be an award for Best Paper. The author of the “Best Paper” will receive support to attend a national education conference. All papers will be published in the conference proceedings on the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Homepage. The URL for the Conference Web page is:
http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/NMSU/sete/index.html

Topics for Sessions:
• Effective use and assessment of technology as a teaching tool in science, engineering, mathematics, and technology education
• Overcoming institutional and disciplinary barriers in developing cross disciplinary classes, team taught classes or capstone design classes
• Strategies for assessing student learning; strategies for assessing teaching, peer reviews, peer observation, successful methodologies or instruments which can be used in the annual review or P&T process
• Combining research and teaching in the classroom
• Special challenges in STEM teaching