OPES (Open-source Problems in Engineering Studies): Making the WeB WorK

该项目正在将WebWork作业交付工具扩展到工程领域。它为三个核心的、长达一个学期的、学院级的工程课程生成了一个WebWork工程问题库：材料静力学和力学、电气工程和电路以及热力学。该问题库正在向全世界提供，供公众免费使用。该项目包括一个研究部分，以研究在线工程作业对学生学习的影响，由于免费提供的知识库的电子性质，该项目有可能影响来自广泛的学校，包括少数民族机构，社区学院和非博士授予机构的学生和教师。该项目建立在WebWorkK在数学方面的成功基础上，并将其扩展到工程领域。项目小组继续采用开放源码概念，作为扩大项目和传播成果的手段，从而加强工程教育的基础设施。正在创建和维护一个项目网站，向工程界提供有关评估研究、期刊出版物和培训机会的最新信息。除了内部培训外，还为10名外部参与者举办了一个为期两天的讲习班，并在美国工程教育学会年会上举办了一个讲习班。该项目的研究和评估有可能塑造工程教育的未来方向。

The project is expanding the WeBWork homework delivery tool into engineering. It generates a repository of WeBWorK engineering problems for three core, semester-long, sophomore-level engineering courses: Statics and Mechanics of Materials, Electrical Engineering and Circuits, and Thermodynamics. The problem library is being made available worldwide for free public utilization. The project includes a research component to study the effect of online engineering homework on student learning.Due to the electronic nature of the freely available repository, this project has the potential to impact students and faculty from a broad range of schools, including minority institutions, community colleges and non-PhD-granting institutions. The project builds on the success of WeBWorK in mathematics and expands it to engineering. The project team continues to embrace the open-source concept as a means to expand the project and disseminate results, thereby enhancing infrastructure in engineering education. A project website is being created and maintained, which updates the engineering community about assessment studies, journal publications, and training opportunities. In addition to in-house training, a two-day workshop is being hosted for ten external participants, and a workshop is being offered at an American Society for Engineering Education annual meeting. The research and assessment from this project has the potential to shape future directions in engineering education.