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Tiêu đề

Work in progress - Teaching engineering concepts to liberal arts students

Tác giả

Piergiovanni P.R.

Năm xuất bản

2011

Source title

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2011.6142855

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84858182998&doi=10.1109%2fFIE.2011.6142855&partnerID=40&md5=e64d83e40300b7ce1f99affd66ee33ce

Tóm tắt

Lafayette College, with strong programs in engineering and the liberal arts, requires sophomore students to enroll in a "VaST" (Values and Science/Technology) course. These courses incorporate approaches from the engineering viewpoint and ideas from the social sciences and humanities. As a result of taking a VaST course, students should be better able to see and understand engineering and science as a functioning part of their daily social world. However, in practice, the courses are difficult to develop and populate. This paper describes a course that uses experiential learning to involve liberal arts students in all aspects of the course. The liberal arts students learned basic engineering concepts by using hands-on activities, side-by-side with engineering students. © 2011 IEEE.

Từ khóa

engineering; hands-on activities; liberal arts

Tài liệu tham khảo

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