A Dual-Level, Inquiry-Based Experimental Structural Dynamics Course in a "Roving" Laboratory

工科本科生和研究生很少被要求设计、设置、实施和解释他们自己的实验。虽然预先安排的实验室实验非常有效地用于强化理论概念，但它们遵循固定的格式，并没有给学生一个发展自己的实验计划技能的机会。这个项目的总体目标是让学生更好地控制学习过程。在校内实验室进行的实验或到校外地点进行的测试旅行，即“巡回”实验室，将创造一个互动的、学生驱动的学习环境，教师充当学习教练。分析和实验结构动力学课程材料将改编自一套经过验证的课程笔记，以满足这种环境的需要。作为第三方评估者，在咨询委员会中服务的工业合作伙伴将捐赠结构标本或数据，用于实验性的学生项目。该项目将在流动实验室中更好地教育学生实验结构动力学，鼓励终身自学，在大学教室和工业之间建立教育联系，促进和支持有必要采用这种方法的课程创新，并为其他教育工作者和工业赞助商提供在其他地方实施这种方法所需的信息。

Engineering - Mechanical (56)Engineering undergraduate and graduate students are rarely asked to design, set up, carry out, and interpret their own experiments. Although prearranged laboratory experiments are used very effectively to reinforce theoretical concepts, they follow a fixed format and do not give students an opportunity to develop their own experimental planning skills.The overall objective of this project is to give students more control of the learning process. Experiments in an on-campus laboratory or test-trips to an off-campus site, i.e. the "roving" laboratory, are going to create an interactive, student-driven learning environment where instructors serve as learning coaches. Analytical and experimental structural dynamic course materials are going to be adapted from a proven set of course notes to meet the needs of this environment. Industrial partners, who serve on an advisory committee as third-party evaluators, are going to donate structural specimens or data to be used in experimental student projects.The project is going to better educate students in experimental structural dynamics within the roving laboratory, encourage lifelong self-learning, establish an educational link between university classrooms and industry, promote and support curriculum innovation where this approach is warranted, and provide other educators and industrial sponsors with information needed to implement this approach elsewhere.