Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

KENNETH WADE JACKSON

embodiment could provide a moreholistic situation and might be useful for better engaging students with physicalreality. Secondly, increasing laboratory work might also be useful. Unfortunately,there seems to be a lower value placed on teaching laboratory courses as evidencedby these courses being frequently assigned to graduate assistants. Havingexperienced both analytical and experimental work, there is no doubt in the author’smind that analytical and deductive engineering courses take less time to teach andare easier to assess than their iterative and inductive counterparts. Those who haveworked in engineering laboratories know well how difficult it can be to get stubbornobservations to cooperate and agree reasonably well with our