Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis; Gianmarco Sahragard-Monfared, University of California, Davis; Edward Thomas Conley, University of California, Davis

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Materials

pandemic. In March 2020, a “revised syllabus” circulated on theinternet, which provided the following five guiding principles for a term interrupted: 1. Nobody signed up for this 2. The humane option is the best option 3. We cannot just do the same thing online 4. We will foster intellectual nourishment, social connection, and personal accommodation 5. We will remain flexible and adjust to the situation --Brandon L. Bayne, 2020 [2]The authors of this paper adopted these principles as they prepared for teaching in Spring 2020.Remote laboratory courses are challenging to design due to the hands-on activities typicallyutilized for in-person instruction. Furthermore, laboratory courses are vital to

Conference Session

Advances in Materials Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Barry Dupen, Purdue University Fort Wayne

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campus shutdown meant I had to develop online lectures forother courses, so the Failure Analysis course ended shortly after spring break.I taught Lightweight Materials 360 in spring 2020 as an independent study for one student whoneeded a materials course to graduate with his materials minor in May 2020. The student read achapter a week, then met with me to review his questions on the reading. Most of his questionswere about topics not covered in introductory materials classes, such as the Bauschinger effect,skull induction melting, and shock reactive synthesis of powder metals.The Biomedical Materials 320 course in fall 2020 used the format from the Polymers class. Ilectured through mid-November to the end of the textbook, then we had 7 student