Conference Session

Active Learning & Laboratories in Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Sanders, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

learning for a large introductory mechanics course using mobile phone data capture and peer feedbackAbstractProject-based learning (PBL) has been shown to result in many benefits, including improvedconceptual understanding and enhanced skills in communication, teamwork, and creativity, allwidely acknowledged to be core capabilities for engineers. However, implementations of PBLfrequently rely on large course staffs or small class sizes to be effective. In this paper we present aPBL implementation strategy used in an introductory dynamics course at the University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which scales up to 500 students per term. This large-scale usageof PBL relies on two key implementation