Incorporating Learning Styles to Enhance Mechanical Engineering Curriculum by Restructuring Courses
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Senior |
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Mechanical Engineering Teamwork |
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| Description: | Description of curricular innovation (pdf format) titled: "Incorporating Learning Styles to Enhance Mechanical Engineering Curriculum by Restructuring Courses, Increasing Hands-on Activities, and Improving Team Dynamics (PDF)." Abstract: "Beginning in 1997 and continuing to the present, the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) and the Univ. of Texas at Austin (UTA) have collaborated in a project to use learning style theory to enhance Mechanical Engineering curricula. Our primary learning styles indicator has come from the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); although two other learning styles indicators (VARK and 6 Hats) and four models of the learning process (Kolb, Bloom's taxonomy, Scaffolding and Inductive/Deductive) were also incorporated. The project focused initially on our undergraduate design methodology courses. However, the impact of this work has now affected a large number of other courses in our departments. We have endeavored to extend, significantly, what others have done in this area [Bonwell 1998, Dunn 1978, Eder 1994, Felder 1988, 1996, Lumsdaine 1995, McCaulley 1990] to enhance our curriculum." |
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(d) Work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams |
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| Publication Date: | March 2000 |
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Cross Platform |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Governance/Honors/1094.pdf |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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