Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Engineering Division: Best Paper Technical Session

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; James A. Coller, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

mental models with others’, noticing differences and explicitly spelling outassumptions [16, 17, 18].In understanding previous work, the goal of the instructors was to bring previously documentedsuccessful pedagogies to use in teaching hydrodynamics concepts to first year engineeringstudents with the intention of improving students’ ability to grasp the high level concepts over thecourse of one lecture before moving on to a laboratory environment to experiment and reinforcethe concept knowledge.MethodsThe collaborative lectures are taught with students working in small groups. We use a flexibleclassroom that has movable tables and chairs, and we have the students help us rearrange thefurniture (if needed) according to the diagram in Fig. 1. This