Cedarville Magazine, Spring/Summer 2015

28 | Cedarville Magazine C r a s h Course e A test drive of the classroom experience (without the final exam) COURSE TITLE Exercise Testing and Prescription for Special Populations INSTRUCTOR Dr. April Crommett Associate Professor of Exercise Science DESCRIPTION Exercise Science majors learn to assess risk factors for cardiovascular diseases for healthy adults, perform fitness testing, and design exercise programs based on the client’s risks. Students also learn how to modify fitness testing and exercise programs for individuals with special health needs like diabetes, pregnancy, chronic heart failure, and multiple sclerosis. BIG IDEA • Students learn to design exercise programs for individuals with special health concerns. • As part of the course, students are required to work with an individual throughout the semester who has a health concern and apply classroom learning to a real-world experience. • Students visit a local facility that provides fitness testing and programming for adults or children with special health concerns. Students may observe — and sometimes participate in — horseback riding for special needs children, water aerobics for arthritis patients, wheelchair basketball leagues, and group exercise training for cancer patients. • Students earn extra credit by participating in a charity event raising money for a special health need, such as the Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis, or the St. Jude 5K Walk to fight childhood cancer. They write a paper explaining the disease/disability, the sponsoring organization, and how the event affected their lives. LEARN MORE: cedarville.edu/kinesiology “I liked this course because it covered a wide variety of the diseases I hope to work with in my future career. This experience was unique for me because it gave me the opportunity to work with a client in a very hands-on way. I worked with Professor George Huff and helped to rehabilitate him after he was hit by a car while biking. And thanks to the knowledge I acquired from this class, I can continue working with him for another semester and head up his rehabilitation.” Annisa Albury ’15 Exercise Science Cedarville Travels to Detroit Auto Show, Meets Daytona 500 Champ Among the tricked-out, glamourous, and seriously supercharged new cars featured at the 2015 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit in January, there was a little blue car from Cedarville University that grabbed center stage. Cedarville’s Supermileage Team and its hybrid-electric car, Urbie, went to Detroit at the invitation of Shell, after competing in the 2014 Shell Eco-marathon Americas. Cedarville entered three cars in last year’s contest: Gold Lightning II and Sting in the Prototype Division and Urbie in the Urban Concept Division. The Eco-marathon challenges student engineers to design and build super energy- efficient vehicles, not known for speed, but for going as far as possible on the least amount of fuel. The Cedarville team returned to Detroit on April 9–12 for this year’s Eco-marathon. Advisers to the Cedarville team are Dr. Larry Zavodney, Senior Professor of Mechanical Engineering (second from right in the photo above), and Dr. Gerry Brown, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering (not pictured). 2015 Daytona 500 champion Joey Logano (third from right in the photo above) chatted extensively with the Cedarville team. “The quality of the cars, the craftsmanship, the engineering, and the creativity that goes behind these [vehicles] is really neat to see,” Logano shared with reporters. “I couldn’t do what those students have done — and still probably can’t. I’m just a race car driver.” Cedarville engineers impressed Logano with their fuel-stretching strategies. “What they’ve done to build their car and listening to how they saved fuel, it’s very similar to the way we save fuel under [the caution flag during a race],” he said. “It’s cool to talk to the kids from Cedarville.” Brad Keselowski, NASCAR’s 2012 Sprint Cup Champion and winner of the Auto Club 400 in Fontana, California, in March, also visited with Cedarville’s engineers. Then Keselowski took Urbie for a test-drive on the indoor track at the Cobo Center in Detroit. Nearly 1 million people worldwide learned about Urbie and Cedarville’s engineering program via media reports. NBC Sports’ MotorSportsTalk webpage offered coverage onUrbie, as didWJRT-TV, Channel 12, from Flint, Michigan. Stories also appeared in Dayton, Ohio-area news outlets including the Xenia Daily Gazette ; WDTN-TV, Channel 2; and WHIO-TV, Channel 7. Zavodney and the Supermileage team also met with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley. For more photos from the NAIAS, check out Cedarville photographer Scott Huck’s site: cedarville.edu/EcoPics . See photos and commentary from the 2015 Eco-marathon at cedarville.edu/Eco-marathon . Campus News