Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Gurcan Comert; Zulfikar Berk, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis; Balaji Iyangar; Esmail M Abuhdima, Benedict college; Negash Begashaw, Benedict College

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Labs and experiential learning

Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 351623.0 Future DirectionsAs with many REU programs, we found the virtual experience to be a disruption to planned and structuredexperience, and program’s progress. Our intention was to continue the work we had begun in 2018 and2019. Our original agenda for the summer of 2020 was to produce detailed evaluations of activities with adesigned rubric. We had planned to include better design of activities with convergence to the main problemin-mind. We wanted to research the impacts of linear and non-linear activities from the literature and designa careful REU experience. In addition, a longitudinal study was going to summarize our findings from2018-2020