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Development of a Multimedia Laboratory Supplement for an Introduction to Materials Course: A Computer Graphics Technology Senior Design Project

Jamie Workman, Adam Siurek, and Gregory Smith

Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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The Introduction to Materials course at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), is notorious for its laboratory experiments and report procedures. The course is in the Mechanical Engineering Technology department of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology and identified as MET 141. This is one of the very first courses that entering freshman take, usually in the first semester, and one with generally large enrollments for a laboratory-based course. Much of the effort spent on this course is in the way of repeatedly explaining experimental procedures to several small groups, identifying the various equipment and how it is used, and going over the expectations of the laboratory report format and content.

The previous method of conveying this information to the students was by the instructor and a laboratory manual with procedural instructions. The difficulty with this delivery method is that the students are not familiar with the equipment so the procedures mean very little to them. This often results in more confusion. In an effort to be more efficient and to present the laboratory information in a way that is more beneficial to the students, the idea of enhancing the lab manual was being considered.

A Computer Graphics Technology (CGT) Instructor and a Senior Design student presented the perfect solution to the problem. Why not create a multimedia laboratory supplement that combines audio, video, text, and more that the students can utilize for the course? The next several months involved considerable amounts of effort to compile all the necessary information, produce the video, add the audio and text, and then organize everything into a suitable format. The result of this effort is a CD-ROM and laboratory manual combination that is currently being tested on a limited basis and will be tested in full scale in the fall of 2002.

MET 141

MET 141 is a freshman level, Introduction to Materials course taken by students within the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technology (CIMT) programs. As with many courses within the MET and CIMT programs, “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Smith, G., & Siurek, A., & Workman, J. (2002, June), Development Of A Multimedia Laboratory Supplement For An Introduction To Materials Course: A Computer Graphics Technology Senior Design Project Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10689