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The effect of the flipped classroom approach in an engineering course

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Conference

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Location

Las Vegas, Nevada

Publication Date

April 18, 2024

Start Date

April 18, 2024

End Date

April 20, 2024

DOI

10.18260/1-2--46062

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https://peer.asee.org/46062

Paper Authors

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Rebeka Sultana California State University, Long Beach Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-0557-4471

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Dr. Sultana is a Lecturer at the department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management (CECEM) at California State University, Long Beach. Her area of interest is hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, climate change, urban surface water management, and engineering education.
She received her PhD in Civil Engineering from University of California, Irvine and MS in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette. She also works as a Senior Design Specialist at the California Department of Transportation and is a registered professional Engineer in California.

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Abstract

In the Fall of 2013, the "flipped classroom" method was implemented in the Fluid Mechanics class offered primarily to juniors in the Civil and Mechanical Engineering departments. The course has long been considered a bottleneck course in students’ graduation time and therefore the class has been flipped to drive active learning, student engagement, and enhanced overall class performance. In the flipped classroom, students watched video lectures beforehand to obtain the foundational knowledge and gave pre-class quizzes before coming to the class. During the face-to-face sessions in the classroom, students engaged with their peers and the instructor to solve problems. Since the lectures were covered in videos, students had more time to understand the problem statements and interact with the instructor to ask questions/clarify concepts. This study addresses the following three research questions: (1) does the flipped classroom improve students’ overall performance, (2) does the flipped classroom improve the classroom learning environment, and (3) what are the advantage and disadvantage of the flipped classroom method? The research objectives have been assessed by the beginning and end-of-semester surveys, pre-class quizzes, homework, and exam results, classroom observations, and discussion. The exam scores are compared with those of the previous years to evaluate the effectiveness of the flipped classroom method in the class.

Sultana, R. (2024, April), The effect of the flipped classroom approach in an engineering course Paper presented at 2024 ASEE PSW Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. 10.18260/1-2--46062

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