Development of Job-based Problems for Technical Physics

与技术学生在工业环境中开始工作时可能遇到的类似的基于工作的问题，在技术物理课程中并不普遍。因此，学生们经常看不到物理学与他们学习的相关性，当他们在工作中遇到物理学时，他们可能不会认识到物理学的应用。这个项目的目标是为技术物理开发40个基于作业的问题集。这些问题将由物理和技术讲师、大都会制造技术中心的代表和伯明翰地区小型工业的雇员共同开发。讲师将参观各种轻型和重型制造环境，为这些行业的实际工作场所和工作问题提供基础。这些真实的问题将被改编用于基于代数的技术物理课程。照片，视频和比例图纸从工业环境将包括在内。每个问题将被开发，以便多个变量可以解决，使问题适应各种学生的需要。来自运动、力、扭矩和电力领域的问题将来自几个不同的工作场所。这些问题将由至少三所其他学院的教师和学生进行实地测试，然后在国家和地区会议上分发给其他技术物理教师。完成的问题将通过链接到杰斐逊州立大学的网页和光盘格式提供。一位外部评估人员将决定在课程中加入与工作相关的问题是否会影响技术学生对物理的态度，并使他们更好地为劳动力做好准备。

Job-based problems similar to those technology students are likely to encounter when they begin work in industrial settings are not widely available for technical physics courses. Consequently, students frequently fail to see the relevance of physics to their studies and may not recognize physics-based applications when they encounter them on the job. The objective of this project is to develop 40 job-based problem sets for technical physics. These problems will be developed by physics and technology instructors jointly, representatives from the Metropolitan Manufacturing Technology Center and employeesfrom small industries in the Birmingham area. A variety of light and heavy manufacturing settings to be visited by the instructors will provide the foundation for the actual work place, job-based problems from these industries. These authentic problems will be adapted for use in the algebra-based technical physics course. Photographs, videos and scale drawings from the industrial setting will be included. Each problem will be developed so that multiple variables can be solved for to make the problems adaptable to a variety of student needs. Problems from the areas of motion, force, torque, and electricity will be developed from several different work places. The problems will be field-tested by instructors and students from at least three other colleges before being distributed to other technical physics teachers at national and regional meetings. Completed problems will be made available via links to Jefferson State's web page and in a CD ROM format. An outside evaluator will determine whether including job-based problems in the course affects the attitude of technology students toward physics and makes them better prepared for the workforce.