Field Experiences for Undergraduate Engineers

场方法是工程学的一个重要组成部分，在本科课程中经常被忽视。 罗文大学工程学院正在将实地方法，包括取样和测量，纳入其工程课程。 在选择课程和模块的实验室组成部分预先计划的实地演练用于新生和大二工程诊所，并开放式实地演练作为初级和高级工程诊所的一部分。 这些努力通过调整和统一新泽西理工学院化学工程系（传统的，特定的实验室实验）和科罗拉多州立大学化学工程系（学科特定的工程设计项目）的实验室方法，扩展了罗文目前的工程诊所。 跨学科的互动是改编自正在进行的工作在克拉克森大学的土木和环境工程系。该项目是支持购买现场设备，用于获取水，空气和沉积物样品，测量基本土壤，水和大气参数在外地，并调查/地图现场。 在预先计划的活动中，学生完成类似于传统实验室练习的特定任务，但活动是在户外使用现场设备进行的。 在开放式活动中，学生们决定他们需要收集什么样的媒体，以及他们需要进行什么样的现场测量来解决开放式问题。

Field methods are an important part of engineering often ignored in the undergraduate curriculum. The College of Engineering at Rowan University is incorporating field methods, both sampling and measurement, across its engineering curriculum. Preplanned field exercises in laboratory components of select courses and modules are used in Freshman and Sophomore Engineering Clinics, and open ended field exercises are used as part of Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics. These efforts extend current engineering clinics at Rowan by adapting and unifying the laboratory approaches at the Chemical Engineering Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology (traditional, specific laboratory experiments) and at the Chemical Engineering Department at Colorado State University (discipline specific engineering design projects). The cross-disciplinary interactions are adapted from work going on at Clarkson University's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.This project is supporting the purchase of field equipment which is used to obtain water, air, and sediment samples, measure fundamental soil, water and atmospheric parameters in the field, and survey/map field sites. In preplanned activities, students complete specific tasks similar to traditional laboratory exercises, except the activities are conducted outside using field equipment. In open-ended activities, students determine what media they need to collect and what field measurements they need to make to solve open-ended problems.