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C r a s h
Coursee
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:
“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: See photos and
commentary from the 2015 Eco-marathon
at .
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