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Paige, Myela; Schauer, Anastasia; Klesmith, Zoe; Davis, Alexis; Fu, Katherine – Advances in Engineering Education, 2023
In many mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculums, there are topics that are vital to the students' future careers in the manufacturing and design workforce that are not taught in-depth. As one of those topics, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, or GD&T, is vital to companies who develop and manufacture products because it allows…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Experiential Learning, Geometry
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Leung, Jac K. L.; Chu, Samuel K. W. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
The First-Year Cornerstone Engineering Design Project Course (ENGG1100) aims to maintain practicality and excitement of experiential learning by enabling students to create an authentic artifact, despite the unexpected shift to emergency remote teaching due to COVID-19. The main challenge is to teach a course that usually takes place in a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Emergency Programs, Distance Education
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Kisaalita, William S. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2018
Offering first year seminars and experiences is well-established as one of the high-impact educational practices. An inquiry-based freshman seminar in which students conduct poverty simulation term projects has been offered for five years at the University of Georgia. The students have four project options of: dressing the part and panhandling…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, First Year Seminars, Reflection
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Karkoub, Mansour; Yang, Chun-Lin; Karkoub, Wael; Raslan, Moustafa – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
For many years, educators have been developing tools and techniques to improve the learning process in higher education; however, the vast majority of these do not focus directly on deep learning. In this work, an innovative teaching/learning tool is presented which focuses on deep learning of some engineering skills and principles. The tool is…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Learning Processes, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Sullivan, R. Warsi; Rais-Rohani, M. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2009
Research shows that students can significantly improve their understanding and retention of topics presented in an engineering course when discussions of theoretical and mathematical approaches are combined with active-learning exercises involving hands-on physical experiments. In this paper, the design and application of a beam testing system…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Active Learning, Mathematics, Mechanics (Physics)
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Yeary, Mark; Yu, Tian-You; Palmer, Robert; Biggerstaff, Michael; Fink, L. Dee; Ahem, Carolyn; Tarp, Keli Pirtle – Advances in Engineering Education, 2007
This paper describes the details of a National Science Foundation multi-year educational project at the University of Oklahoma (OU). The goal of this comprehensive active-learning and hands-on laboratory program is to develop an interdisciplinary program, in which engineering, geoscience, and meteorology students participate, which forms a…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Active Learning, Laboratories