Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven M. Yalisove, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Materials

one third of the classsessions. The course was traditionally taught on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays with arecitation on Thursdays that was run by graduate student instructors. A fixed syllabus has beenused for many years and we kept that strictly in place. The same textbook and the sameassessment tools (two midterms and a final) were used. What was changed was that onWednesdays, no lecture was given. Instead, active learning methodologies were used to coverthe main points that the lecture would have been focussed on. Instead of using the lecture tointroduce material, we had the students read the book and take a short online quiz. We alsoprovided a short, optional, video about the topic to be covered on Wednesdays. These videoswere