Conference Session

Innovations in Laboratory Studies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Al-Bahi, King Abdulaziz University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

lab experience? 3. How can an engineering program introduce elements of design of experiment in the curriculum without overwhelming both students and faculty? 4. How can the students’ lab work be assessed to measure the achievement of learning objectives related to lab experience and to outcome 3.b in particular? 5. How can a faculty member assess the write-up he/she prepares and gives to the students for a design of experiment component in a lab course? 6. How can the engineering program evaluate the student’s lab experience in the curriculum and develop an action plan for further improvements?The present work aims at addressing these open-ended questions and proposes some possibleanswers.Experience of

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Drushel, Case Western Reserve University; John Gallagher, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

ideas. Moreover, a physical papernotebook was flexible enough to incorporate printouts of code (already typed for the compiler Page 13.1283.3anyways) and digital photographs (after the lab obtained a digital camera) by taping or staplingthem in, or else keeping the notebook as a 3-ring binder, to allow easy insertion of pages. Somestudents made rough handwritten notes in class and then typed them into a word processor ontheir own computers, especially those who had poor handwriting but were efficient typists.Overall, the immediacy afforded by just writing down observations in real time during classallowed high-quality documentation to be