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

该项目正在将网络作业交付工具扩展到工程领域。它为三门核心的、为期一学期的二年级工程课程生成一个网络工程问题库：材料静力学和力学、电气工程和电路以及热力学。问题图书馆正在全球范围内免费向公众开放。该项目包括一个研究部分，研究在线工程作业对学生学习的影响。由于免费提供的资源库的电子性质，该项目有可能影响包括少数族裔机构、社区学院和非授予博士学位的机构在内的广泛学校的学生和教职员工。该项目建立在网络工作在数学上的成功基础上，并将其扩展到工程领域。项目组继续将开放源码概念作为扩大项目和传播成果的一种手段，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，向工程界通报有关评估研究、期刊出版物和培训机会的最新情况。除了内部培训外，还为10名外部参与者举办了为期两天的研讨会，并在美国工程教育学会年会上举办了研讨会。该项目的研究和评估具有塑造未来工程教育方向的潜力。

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.