Genau, A. (2020, June), Teaching Report Writing in Undergraduate Labs  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--35279

\bibitem{asee_peer_35279}
  Genau, A. (2020, June), \emph{Teaching Report Writing in Undergraduate Labs}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--35279

Amber Genau.  "Teaching Report Writing in Undergraduate Labs".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/35279 Internet.  21 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_35279}
  Amber Genau.
  "Teaching Report Writing in Undergraduate Labs".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/35279 Internet.  21 Apr, 2025

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AB  - For undergraduate engineering students in lower level laboratory classes, writing up the results from their lab activities is often far more of a challenge than performing the activity itself or even analyzing the results.  The instructor’s challenge is therefore not just to teach concepts like tensile testing or cooling curve analysis, but also to teach technical communication and the accepted reporting standards and vocabulary of the field.  Over the last decade, the author has repeated taught the Introduction to Engineering Materials course for materials majors, which is typically taken by students in the spring of their sophomore year, and is the first course where students are expected to write full technical lab reports.  The paper will discuss the steps that the author has taken to scaffold the experience of report writing for students, including the creation of a 4-page MSE Technical Writing Guide which is now used throughout the department.  Other steps including assigning students to read and answer questions about a short technical journal article, requiring peer review of classmates’ reports, and multiple graded and ungraded but mandatory submission steps for each report. These activities have resulted in significant improvement in students’ lab report writing ability as observed in subsequent lab courses.
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