Marley, J. F., & Tougaw, D. (2018, July), Completing a Lab in 50 Minutes: Optimizing Student Attention Span  Paper presented at 2018 FYEE Conference, Glassboro, New Jersey. 10.18260/1-2--31390

\bibitem{asee_peer_31390}
  Marley, J. F., \& Tougaw, D. (2018, July), \emph{Completing a Lab in 50 Minutes: Optimizing Student Attention Span}
  Paper presented at 2018 FYEE Conference, Glassboro, New Jersey.
  10.18260/1-2--31390

Jennifer Felder Marley and Doug Tougaw.  "Completing a Lab in 50 Minutes: Optimizing Student Attention Span".  2018 FYEE Conference, Glassboro, New Jersey, 2018, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/31390 Internet.  26 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_31390}
  Jennifer Felder Marley and Doug Tougaw.
  "Completing a Lab in 50 Minutes: Optimizing Student Attention Span".
  \emph{2018 FYEE Conference, Glassboro, New Jersey, 2018, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/31390 Internet.  26 Dec, 2024

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author = "Jennifer Felder Marley and Doug Tougaw"
title = "Completing a Lab in 50 Minutes: Optimizing Student Attention Span"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Accommodating students’ relatively short attention spans is a significant challenge when designing a first-year engineering course.  It is increasingly difficult for first-year students to maintain their focus throughout a 150-minute laboratory session.  An alternative is to create laboratory experiences that provide students with self-contained hands-on experiences that can be completed within a traditional 50-minute window.  In electrical and computer engineering, this is challenging, since so many of the laboratories require extensive wiring and, possibly, programming. 

We describe a set of 24 hands-on laboratories in which students perform a significant experiment within a 50-minute period.  The labs are written to explore analog circuits, digital circuits, and programming embedded microcontrollers. Completing these experiments in 50 minutes is made possible by making just a few adjustments to the lab exercises and by providing a few key supporting structures for students. 

These one-period labs were taught for the first time last academic year, and they are currently being used for a second time with a few small revisions. Assessment results are presented that demonstrate these labs are beneficial to students’ achievement of course learning objectives.

AU  - Jennifer Felder Marley
AU  - Doug Tougaw
CY  - Glassboro, New Jersey
DA  - 2018/07/24
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Completing a Lab in 50 Minutes: Optimizing Student Attention Span
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--31390
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