Conference Session

Classroom Methodologies

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Susan C. Brooks, Western Illinois University - Quad Cities

Tagged Topics

Classroom methodologies

to continuously develop and apply knowledgeof mathematics while in school and throughout professional practice.IntroductionEngineering analysis depends on mathematical models of the physical world; however, inengineering practice, the models are often already developed, the solutions derived, and acomputer program written to carry out the calculations. Practicing engineers are engaged inapplying the answers; the model development and computer programming required to generatethose answers is purchased and usually ignored. Practicing engineers, doing work for hire, can’tafford to reinvent published solutions. With this in mind, some might conclude that engineeringanalysis is simply an I/O process where engineers match the task to a known

Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Gurcan Comert; Zulfikar Berk, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis; Balaji Iyangar; Esmail M Abuhdima, Benedict college; Negash Begashaw, Benedict College

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Labs and experiential learning

Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 351623.0 Future DirectionsAs with many REU programs, we found the virtual experience to be a disruption to planned and structuredexperience, and program’s progress. Our intention was to continue the work we had begun in 2018 and2019. Our original agenda for the summer of 2020 was to produce detailed evaluations of activities with adesigned rubric. We had planned to include better design of activities with convergence to the main problemin-mind. We wanted to research the impacts of linear and non-linear activities from the literature and designa careful REU experience. In addition, a longitudinal study was going to summarize our findings from2018-2020