How To Think About Fluids In and Out of Classrooms: Developing Interactive Strategies for Learning Fluid Mechanics Online
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Virtual Conference
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July 26, 2021
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July 26, 2021
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July 19, 2022
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Mechanical Engineering
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18
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--37260
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https://peer.asee.org/37260
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428
Paper Authors
Soheil Fatehiboroujeni
Cornell University
orcid.org/0000-0002-5129-7428
Soheil Fatehiboroujeni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Soheil is working in the Active Learning Initiative to promote student learning and the use of computational tools such as Matlab and ANSYS in the context of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.
Matthew J. Ford
Cornell University
orcid.org/0000-0002-1053-7149
Matthew Ford received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and materials science from the University of California, Berkeley, and went on to complete his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. After completing an internship in quantitative methods for education research with the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), he joined the Cornell Active Learning Initiative as a postdoctoral associate. His teaching interests include solid mechanics, engineering design, and inquiry-guided learning.
Hadas Ritz
Cornell University
orcid.org/0000-0002-5396-2962
Hadas Ritz is a senior lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and a Faculty Teaching Fellow at the James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute (MTEI) at Cornell University, where she received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2008. Since then she has taught required and elective courses covering a wide range of topics in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering curriculum. In her work with MTEI she co-leads teaching workshops for new faculty and assists with other teaching excellence initiatives. Her main teaching interests include solid mechanics and engineering mathematics. Among other teaching awards, she received the 2021 ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award.
Brian J. Kirby Cornell University
Elizabeth Mills Fisher Cornell University
Elizabeth M. Fisher is an Associate Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell. She received her PhD from U.C. Berkeley.
Abstract
In this paper we report on the development of strategies used in an introductory fluid mechanics course that transitioned from a fully in-person mode of delivery to a hybrid setting. We describe two sets of instructional changes we used to support students’ learning in the hybrid context: first, Matlab Livescript documents and second, “scavenger hunt” missions of finding, demonstrating, or building fluid mechanical systems in everyday life. We employ two different instruments to track students’ experiences in this course. First, we compare students' performance in a fluid mechanics concept inventory assessment that they take at the end of each semester. In addition, we also adopt a set of items from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) to measure the impacts of these changes on students' motivations and attitudes. We reflect on the implications of this transition process and provide an outline of the future developments of this work.
Fatehiboroujeni, S., & Ford, M. J., & Ritz, H., & Kirby, B. J., & Fisher, E. M. (2021, July), How To Think About Fluids In and Out of Classrooms: Developing Interactive Strategies for Learning Fluid Mechanics Online Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37260
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