Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Pedagogy of Lab-Oriented Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natacha Depaola, Illinois Institute of Technology; Roberto Cammino, Illinois Institute of Technology; Bonnie Haferkamp, Illinois Institute of Technology; Paul R. Anderson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamshid Mohammadi, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fouad Teymour, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

a small scale, prepares students for future, larger research projects. At afundamental level, students have the opportunity to explore research in their field of interest anddeveloped a general sense of whether they would like to pursue research further in their career.With a focus in many universities on providing more research experience for students, providinga structured yet creative research methods experience expands the availability of researchexperience to a greater number of students. Here, we detail the development and initial findingsof an inquiry-based, engineering-wide undergraduate research course.MethodsThe Course We developed the course content and syllabus by obtaining input from a number of researchfaculty in our