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- Title
Learning-Centered Instruction of Engineering Graphics for Freshman Engineering Students.
- Authors
Pucha, Raghuram V.; Utschig, Tristan T.
- Abstract
Teaching Engineering Graphics to freshman engineering students poses challenges to instructors as well as to students. While the instructors are confronted with a lack of material / text book that covers the broad scope of the subject matter, the students struggle to correlate newly developed skills to real-world engineering design problems because of a lack of documented industry design problems and case studies. Learning / teaching 'Engineering Graphics' through real world problems and case studies in a learner centered instructional paradigm can foster the required integrative thinking for tomorrow's engineers. This paper presents some learning-centered strategies supported by real-world problems and case studies implemented in a freshman 'Engineering Graphics' course. Real-world case studies are also implemented in a senior-level Computer-Aided Design (CAD) course. Some preliminary results are presented on the impact of such strategies on student learning, engagement, and performance.
- Subjects
ENGINEERING graphics education; ENGINEERING education; INDUSTRIAL design; COMPUTER-aided design; LEARNING; ENGINEERING students
- Publication
Journal of STEM Education: Innovations & Research, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 4, p24
- ISSN
1557-5276
- Publication type
Article