Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Yukio Yoritomo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Maxx Joseph Villotti, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Aric Tate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kelly Searsmith, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Julie L. Zilles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

member’s course or courses. Third, the structure of theWAE program included individualized mentoring for interested faculty (and, in this case, theircourse staff) while they were implementing changes in their courses. The pilot run of WAEoccurred over an academic year, with the weekly meetings occurring in the fall semester and theindividual mentoring in the spring. A detailed description of the WAE program is available inWare et al. [10].This paper presents a case study from WAE that highlights how the cooperative, interdisciplinaryprogram fostered change within a writing-intensive Physics course. The course, entitled NuclearWeapons and Arms Control and hereafter referred to as Phys 280, involves the nontechnicalstudy of the physics of nuclear