Baltimore , Maryland
June 25, 2023
June 25, 2023
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Jacob Bishop holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Utah State University pursuing his research on the flipped classroom. His research interests are multidisciplinary. In educational research, his interests include model-eliciting activities, open online education, educational data mining, and the flipped classroom. In quantitative methodology and psychometrics, his interests focus on the use of latent variable models to analyze variability and change over time.
This work details two dimensions involved in designing the educational experience in an undergraduate engineering mechanics laboratory course, centered around the course goals. The two main goals in the course were: 1) to provide students with hands-on learning experiences in materials testing to enable them to connect these experiences with theoretical concepts taught in the related lecture course, and 2) to teach undergraduate engineering students how to prepare a formal engineering laboratory report. Custom equipment for materials testing was designed and constructed in order to meet the first goal in an economically reasonable manner. Writing-intensive pedagogy was used to meet the second goal, with weekly individual writing assignments and one-on-one feedback meetings with every student to promote learning and writing skills improvement. This publication provides some details regarding how the development of custom materials testing laboratory equipment and workbenches shaped the laboratory experience, and also outlines the writing-intensive course structure used to support the development of students' writing skills.
Bishop, J. (2023, June), Designing the Laboratory Experience from the Ground Up: Custom Laboratory Equipment and Writing-Intensive Pedagogy Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43001
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