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Design and Implementation of a Mechatronics Learning Module in a Large First-Semester Engineering Course
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Castles, R. T.; Zephirin, T.; Lohani, V. K.; Kachroo, P. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
Since 2005, the first-year engineering program at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, has been significantly restructured to include more hands-on learning. A major grant (2004-2009) under the department level reform (DLR) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) facilitated this restructuring. A number of hands-on learning modules were developed…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Learning Modules, Educational Change, Engineering