Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

better labs forthe 2020 lab course.Finally, to more accurately assess whether the lab is fostering mastery of foundational principlesand concepts, a future study could look at student performance in co-requisite and/or follow-oncourses.ConclusionsExperimental lab courses are often expected to meet a diverse set of outcomes, from teaching ex-perimentation principles to developing soft skills in teamwork and communication, to providingtactile examples of concepts in a wide-variety of other courses. At the same time, one hopes the ex-perience is enjoyable for students and that their learning persists well beyond the end of the course.The University of Virginia has adopted a new experimental lab sequence that accomplishes severalgoals. First, it