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Reck, Rebecca M. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
For the 2020 spring term, courses needed to switch from traditional in-person formats to an online format in about a week due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents the process and tools used to flip the course content and deliver a dynamic systems and controls course online. Initial feedback was gathered through end of term evaluations and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology
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Knight, David B.; Davis, Kirsten A.; Kinoshita, Timothy J.; Twyman, Catherine; Ogilvie, Andrea M. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2019
Multiple reports suggest that future engineering work will be conducted by globally diverse teams for globally diverse customers. Despite the demonstrated benefits of study abroad opportunities to develop such global competencies, undergraduate engineers participate at low rates. The Rising Sophomore Abroad Program presented in this paper…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Study Abroad, Experiential Learning, Global Approach
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Liang, Dong; Chen, Guanbo; Tian, Hailin; Lu, Qi – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
This article describes how the Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute has embraced new methods and new technologies to ensure high-quality laboratory teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking Mechanical Measurements 1 course as an example, this paper introduces two lab projects that were successfully transferred into online experiments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19
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Bozkurt, Ipek; Helm, James – Advances in Engineering Education, 2013
This paper develops a systems engineering-based framework to assist in the design of an online engineering course. Specifically, the purpose of the framework is to provide a structured methodology for the design, development and delivery of a fully online course, either brand new or modified from an existing face-to-face course. The main strength…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Program Implementation
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Barroso, Luciana R.; Morgan, James R. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2012
This paper describes the creation and evolution of an undergraduate dynamics and vibrations course for civil engineering students. Incorporating vibrations into the course allows students to see and study "real" civil engineering applications of the course content. This connection of academic principles to real life situations is in…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Undergraduate Study, Program Development, Undergraduate Students
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Chaturvedi, Sushil; Prabhakaran, Ramamurthy; Yoon, Jaewan; Abdel-Salam, Tarek – Advances in Engineering Education, 2011
A novel application of web-based virtual laboratories to prepare students for physical experiments is explored in some detail. The pedagogy of supplementing physical laboratory with web-based virtual laboratories is implemented by developing a web-based tool, designated in this work as "eLIVE", an acronym for Engineering Laboratory…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Laboratories, Engineering Education, Technology Uses in Education