Home Experiments: Effective Tools in Engineering Education

小行星9354365 该计划引入了本科教学的创新变化，针对工程教育的广泛部分，提高学生的学习和提高理论和实验室课程的理解。 这是通过创建14个模块来完成的，这些模块描述了14个家庭实验，用于整合到热力学，流体流动，传热和材料力学的理论和实验室课程中。 每个模块都给出了实验的描述，在家里获得的典型结果，以及使用复杂技术获得的实验室结果。 该计划旨在实现（1）增加学生参与，从而提高他们的动机;（2）在简化，近似和建模过程中教育学生;（3）通过开发和提供所有必要的材料，鼓励学生采用和利用建模过程，从而最大限度地减少对教师的要求。这些目标将通过整合学生可以在家里进行的简单实验来实现：（i）理论课程，以更好地理解理论概念和原理，（ii）实验室课程，以欣赏和揭开复杂的实验室测量的神秘面纱，并阐明理论的作用。该计划将分两个阶段进行评估：在CCNY内部和参与学院的外部。 在内部，该计划在四个本科课程的连续两个学期进行监测和评估。 外部评估是基于一个学期内四门课程的课程利用率。 这两项评估将由CCNY教育学院的一名教员进行。项目结果将通过在ASME和ASEE等专业协会的全国会议上的演讲和展览以及在适当的期刊上发表文章来传播。 该计划的两个主要特点是，它可以与现有的计算机集成，并具有成本效益。一旦单元是为特定学科开发的，机构采用它们基本上是免费的。

9354365 Jiji This program introduces innovative changes in undergraduate instruction, targeting a broad segment of engineering education, enhancing students' learning and improving comprehension in both theoretical and laboratory courses. This is done via the creation of 14 modules describing 14 home experiments for integration into theoretical and laboratory courses in thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat transfer and mechanics of materials. Each module gives a description of the experiments, typical results obtained at home, and laboratory results obtrained using sophisticated techniques. The program is designed to achieve (1) an increase in student involvement and thereby their motivation; (2) education of students in the processes of simplification, approximation and modeling; (3) encouragement of students to adopt and utilize modeling processes by developing and providing all necessary material, thus minimizing the demands on instructors. These objectives will be achieved by integrating simple experiments which students can perform at home in: (i) theoretical courses to better understand theoretical concepts and principles, and (ii) laboratory courses to appreciate and demystify complex laboratory measurements and elucidate the role of theory.The program will be evaluated in two stages: internally at CCNY and externally at a participating college. Internally, the program is monitored and evaluated during two consecutive semesters in four undergradute courses. External evaluation is based on program utilization in the four courses during one semester. Both evaluations will be conducted by a faculty member in the CCNY School of Education.The program findings are to be disseminated through presentations and exhibits at national conferences of professional societies such as ASME and ASEE, and though publication of articles in appropriate journals. Two key features of the program are that it can be integrated with existing curriculums, and is cost effective. O nce the modules are developed for a specific discipline, their adoption by institutions is essentially cost free.