Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Mowry, University of St. Thomas-St. Paul

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

lecture format fails todevelop applied E&M skills. Since the mission of the UST School of Engineering (SOE) is to“… provide an applied … learning experience …” and since there were no labs associated withthe original approach, this presented an ‘applied’ problem. In addition to this, a majority of theUST engineering and physics graduates begin their professional job careers immediately aftergraduating. Of the remaining graduates that do pursue an advanced degree, few continue withtheir study of E&M. Since a substantial amount of time is dedicated to E&M and sinceundergraduate credit hours are precious, the challenge was to develop an E&M pedagogy thatimparted an applied E&M learning experience without significantly increasing