c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Resistance is Futile: A New Collaborative Laboratory Game Based Lab to Teach Basic Circuit Concepts AbstractIn recent years, gamification of education has proven to be an effective paradigm in modernpedagogy. Following the success their previous work "Sector Vector”, the authors now present anew game-based laboratory to highlight the manipulation and calculation of resistors in circuits.In Game of Ohms [1] the lesson of electrical resistance is delivered as an interactive exercisebuilding an intricate circuit. As the game progresses, students are forced to make short and longterm plans to modify an evolving circuit which
techniques that reduce or eliminate lecture and replace it Page 26.150.2with active learning methods.5,6 Often the focus of the active learning strategies has been tomove away from methods that lead to students memorizing facts and mimicking solutions andtoward developing conceptual knowledge.7 Other studies have looked at changing/enhancing theexperimental/laboratory component.6,8Physics education research has also focused on developing quantitative methods that can be usedto assess the effectiveness of the traditional teaching structure as well as the impact of newteaching strategies. Those efforts led to the development of a number of
on the disconnect between lectureand lab, which were taught by different instructors before 2010. To address this issues the sameinstructor started teaching both the lecture and laboratory sections in Spring 2010 and somelaboratory time was allocated to guided inquiry using PhET simulations3 and materials modifiedfrom those developed at the University of Colorado at Boulder4.To address goals 2 and 3, the redeveloped course and laboratory have a materials science focus.The properties of single atoms and collections of atoms are studied with an eye towardunderstanding real-world applications. Labs closely tie in to what is being discussed in lectureand introduce students to computational modeling using MATLAB. We chose this particular high
Paper ID #12261Fishing with Broken Net: Predicament in Teaching Introductory PhysicsDr. Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University Yumin Zhang is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Southeast Missouri State University. His academic career started in China; in 1989 he obtained master’s degree on Physics from Zhejiang University and then was employed as technical staff in the Institute of Semi- conductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After receiving PhD degree on Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2000, he started to work as a faculty member in University of
Paper ID #12634The Introductory Physics Lab as a Consulting FirmDr. Daniel Ludwigsen, Kettering University Dr. Daniel Ludwigsen pursued research in Musical Acoustics while completing the Ph. D. in Physics from Brigham Young University. After joining Kettering University in support of the acoustics specialty within Applied Physics, Dr. Ludwigsen has broadened his professional interests to include physics education research and instructional design. In addition to an overhaul of the introductory physics laboratories, partially supported by NSF CCLI funding, Dr. Ludwigsen has written two courses at the sophomore/junior
. Control: Traditional Lecture-Recitation-Exam (LRE) FormatThe structure of the LRE format included three hours per week of face-to-face lecturesdelivered by faculty and two-hour recitations delivered by teaching assistants. The lectureswere recorded and the videos were available through the course website. In the recitations,students completed a set of special physics problems developed by the faculty instructor thathighlighted key weekly lecture concepts and methods. Weekly homework sets and readingassignments were based on the book, Fundamentals of Physics Extended (10th Edition) (Halliday2013).Students were also required to complete five laboratory experiments. This component accountedfor 5% of their final grade. Recitation participation
disciplines in Spanish, focuseson integrating physics and calculus for first-year engineering students13. The Fis-Mat coursemeets three times a week for a total of 5 blocks of 80 minutes each in three sessions (one blockon Monday and two consecutive blocks on Wednesday and Friday). In terms of teaching load,two blocks correspond to the Physics course, two blocks to the Mathematics course and oneblock corresponds to the Physics Laboratory. Both professors were present and participating atall times. During the actual sessions there was no distinction between the blocks, each professorled the class depending on students’ needs. The course program was structured in a coherent andarticulated way without paying much attention on whose block corresponded
Labs Transforming the Introductory Laboratory,” Eur. J. of Phys., 28 (2007), S83-S94 Page 26.615.6[3] For more information on the institute EPIC Learning initiative, seehttp://wit.edu/epic-learning[4] James G. O’Brien and Greg Sirokman, “Teaching Vectors to Engineering Students throughan Interactive Vector Based Game”, American Society of Engineering Educators ConferenceProceedings, 2014[5] Information on The Marshmallow Challenge can be found athttp://marshmallowchallenge.com Page 26.615.7
governmental) are assessing colleges and universities.As engineering educators we have been assessing student learning and course and programoutcomes for years under the context of ABET evaluation, we are much better positioned thansome of our liberal arts colleagues. Those of us who teach as part of the engineering curriculumhave recognized for many years that if we do not measure what students are learning then wereally do not know what or how to teach. We believe that by measuring student learning, withvalid and robust instruments, we can adjust the curriculum and pedagogy to increase studentlearning. We should be teaching with research based active-learning activities, assessing whatour students know and address their misunderstandings before they
Paper ID #13421Engineering Program Growth with Mesh Network CollaborationDr. Hank D Voss, Taylor University Dr. Hank D. Voss, Taylor University Dr. Hank D. Voss received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois in 1977. He then worked for Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories prior to coming to Taylor University in 1994. He is currently a Professor of Engineering and Physics at Taylor University. Some of the courses that he regularly has taught include Principles of Engineering, Intro to Electronics, Statics, Advanced Electronics, Jr. Engineering Projects, FE Review, Control Systems
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology and an affiliated faculty at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.E. in Information Systems, a M.S. in Technology, both from Tec de Monterrey; and a M.S. in Educational Technology and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research is focused on identifying how model-based cognition in STEM can be better supported by means of expert technological and computing tools such as cyberinfrastructure, cyber-physical systems, and computational modeling and simulation tools.Prof. Lynn A. Bryan, Purdue University Lynn A. Bryan is a Professor and Director of the Center for Advancing the Teaching and
the students’ lack of abstraction,especially when seeking to understand Electromagnetism concepts. Many active learningmethodologies and cases are presented in the Classical Mechanics research, but there are fewreferences for Electromagnetism and Waves. Since 2013, the Physics course in MauaEngineering School has used an innovative method for teaching the concepts ofElectromagnetism and Waves in the Engineering Courses, which allows the student to gain adeeper understanding of Physics Concepts1.Characteristics of the developed projectAll projects were applied to all students in the basic cycle (2nd year of Engineering Course –Basic Physics) of the discipline Physics II (Electromagnetism and Waves) and were aimed atthe following:• using an