Living WITH the Lab - a freshman curriculum to boost hands-on learning, student confidence and innovation
Living WITH the Lab - a freshman curriculum to boost hands-on learning, student confidence and innovation
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Living With the Lab——旨在促进实践学习、学生信心和创新的新生课程
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2008
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James Nelson
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David Hall;Hisham Hegab;James Nelson
路易斯安那理工大学实施了一项新的大一工程课程，以促进动手学习，学生的信心和创新。新课程被称为“与实验室同住”，通过将实验室设备的所有权和维护从大学转移到学生身上，增加了体验式学习。每个学生购买一个机器人套件，包括可编程控制器、传感器、伺服器和软件，以及一个工具包，为移动实验室和设计平台提供基础。课程的一个基本原则是，学生拥有的实验室激励学生学习，扩大项目和设计主题的范围，从而促进创新。该课程已经试行了5年，在美国国家科学基金会CCLI第二阶段的资助下，我们目前正处于对350多名学生全面实施的第一年。文章介绍了课程目标、新生课程三门课程的具体内容、教师培训活动和考核结果。
A new freshman engineering curriculum has been implemented at Louisiana Tech University to boost hands-on learning, student confidence and innovation. The new curriculum, called living with the Lab, increases experiential learning by moving the ownership and maintenance of laboratory equipment from the university to the students. Each student purchases a robotics kit with a programmable controller, sensors, servos, and software along with a toolkit to provide the basis for a mobile laboratory and design platform. A basic tenet of the curriculum is that student-owned labs motivate student learning and broaden the spectrum of projects and design topics that can be addressed, thus facilitating innovation. The curriculum has been piloted for the past five years, and we are currently in the first year of full implementation to over 350 students thanks to a Phase II NSF CCLI grant. The paper presents the curriculum objectives, details of the three courses that make up the freshman curriculum, faculty training activities, and assessment results.