Conference Session

Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Civil Engineering Division

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; John D Lynch, Washington State University; Ken Lulay P.E., University of Portland; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

ComputationControl (Spring 2021):The instructor for this course has taught it for many years and had used a structured laboratoryreport for the weekly exercises until it was discontinued during the COVID pandemic tostreamline student online submissions of MATLAB-focused weekly activities. The instructor re-implemented the structured lab report format for the control year’s offering. Students were askedto complete the computational exercises and answer questions in an electronic fill-in-the-blankformat. The structure of the “report” requested (1) objectives of the lab, (2) responses tocomputational tasks in complete sentences and with screen captures of student work, (3)conclusions in complete sentences, including responses to “What did you learn in this lab