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Validating The Critical Engineering Literacy Test (Celt) With Cognitive Interviews, Margot L. Keimig, Senay Purzer
Validating The Critical Engineering Literacy Test (Celt) With Cognitive Interviews, Margot L. Keimig, Senay Purzer
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
The CELT learning assessment focuses on the critical thinking skills of engineering students and allows for the improvement of information literacy, one’s ability identifying and implementing important information. With the pairing of cognitive interviewing, the CELT will allow for the identification of errors and will better determine the reasoning in the decisions made by the students taking the test. The CELT test uses multiple choice and open response questions to evaluate the students and the areas where improvements need to be made. Over the course of the year, the students’ information literacy skills will be expanded and then re-evaluated at …
Visualizing Mechanics: Improving Student Learning Through Video Demonstrations, Blake A. Wetherton, Olumide A. Awofeso, Carolyn E. Creighton, Adam F. Potrzebowski, Charles M. Krousgrill, Jeffrey F. Rhoads
Visualizing Mechanics: Improving Student Learning Through Video Demonstrations, Blake A. Wetherton, Olumide A. Awofeso, Carolyn E. Creighton, Adam F. Potrzebowski, Charles M. Krousgrill, Jeffrey F. Rhoads
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
The Purdue Mechanics Freeform Classroom (PMFC) is a project that seeks to reform engineering mechanics education by integrating content and technology; enhancing communication between students, their peers, and instructors; accommodating a broader range of learning styles; and facilitating greater depths of understanding. In an attempt to increase the PMFC’s efficacy, a series of demonstration videos has been produced. As demonstrated by the popularity and pervasiveness of websites such as YouTube, short videos have the potential to captivate audiences. As such, these videos have incredible promise in educational contexts. In the PMFC series of videos, entitled Visualizing Mechanics, each imitates the …
Development Of Pneumatic Robot For Outreach, Eshamogbo E. Ojuba, John Lumkes
Development Of Pneumatic Robot For Outreach, Eshamogbo E. Ojuba, John Lumkes
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
To encourage the current generation of high school and middle school students to pursue careers in engineering, it is important to have challenging hands-on engineering activities for them. Such activities should be interesting, compelling, and, most importantly, educative. A mini-excavator was built for fluid power outreach, but this tool only demonstrates fluid power, without showing other important aspects of engineering. The tool being developed is able to demonstrate fluid power, as well as other important aspects of engineering, such as controls, electronics, and programming. This tool is an electronically-controlled device that allows the user control a pneumatic circuit, coupled with …