Using a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environment (CCLE) to Promote Knowledge-Building Pedagogy in an Undergraduate Strength-of-Materials Course

Borjana Mikic is the Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor of Engineering and the Faculty Director of initiatives in Design Thinking and the Liberal Arts at Smith College. She is former Director of the Picker Engineering Program and of Smith’s Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning, as well as being a 2007 recipient of the Sherrerd Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Her current areas of research are in the application of the learning sciences to engineering education, design thinking and the liberal arts, and faculty development initiatives. Borjana teaches courses in Engineering Design, Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Failure Analysis, and Skeletal Biomechanics.