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Modeling the Movement: A Challenge-Based Learning Course for Engineering Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Using Computation and Modeling, Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 3

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43670

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https://peer.asee.org/43670

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Esmeralda Campos Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-3097-3933

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Dr. Esmeralda Campos is a postdoc researcher at the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey.

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Carlos Eduardo Martinez-Torteya Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

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Carlos Martinez-Torteya is the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs at the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnologico de Monterrey, where he teaches undergraduate Physics ranging from freshmen courses to upper-level electives in Particle Ph

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Genaro Zavala Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Chile Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-5880-1124

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Genaro Zavala is the leader of the Socially Oriented Interdisciplinary STEM Education Research Group of the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey. He collaborates with the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Andres Bello in Chile. He is National Researcher Level 2 in Mexico. His research lines are interdisciplinary STEM education, social oriented education, conceptual understanding, active learning, assessment tools, and faculty development. Dr. Zavala was appointed to the editorial board of the PRPER (2015-18). In the AAPT, he was a vice-presidential candidate, member of the Committee on Research in Physics Education, member and chair of the International Education Committee, and elected member of Leadership Organizing Physics Education Research Council.

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Abstract

Universities face challenges such as integrating a globalized world, the need for new competencies in the job market, new educational models, and technological advances that create societal concerns regarding traditional higher education. During the last few years, our institution, a large private multi-campus Mexican university, has been preparing for these new challenges changing the educational model from a traditional lecture-based to challenge-based learning with an emphasis on competency development. Entering the School of Engineering and Sciences, first-year students take the Modeling the Movement course, with the primary objective of introducing students to Newton’s laws of motion from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines physics, mathematics, and computer science. We surveyed 533 students enrolled in the course. We present the course design, focusing on the challenge-based approach and interdisciplinarity. We report an overview of student satisfaction based on the achievement of competency development, the student’s perception of the importance of physics, mathematics, and computer science in their professional practice, and their perceptions of difficulty and time demands. The overall results of the survey show a high level of student satisfaction. The students perceive that with the course, they developed the disciplinary and transversal competencies declared in the course objectives. They value the relevance of physics, mathematics, and computer science as an interdisciplinary aspect of the course and their professional practice. Their perception of difficulty and time demands is neutral.

Campos, E., & Martinez-Torteya, C. E., & Zavala, G. (2023, June), Modeling the Movement: A Challenge-Based Learning Course for Engineering Students Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43670

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