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Strategies for Designing Engineering Courses *
Author(s) -
Hagler Marion O.,
Marcy William M.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1999.tb00403.x
Subject(s) - class (philosophy) , mathematics education , engineering education , realization (probability) , focus (optics) , work (physics) , engineering ethics , active learning (machine learning) , engineering , computer science , pedagogy , engineering management , psychology , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , mathematics , statistics , physics , optics
Some principles that have guided the development of engineering courses in the past are identified and applied to the development of strategies for contemporary circumstances. Implications of current changes in constraints are explored for class meetings and for student work outside of class. The realization that two‐thirds of a typical university academic course, and most of the learning, occurs outside the class meeting times compels careful focus by faculty on the design of interactive learning experiences to help students learn proficiently outside the class room. Designing courses of study in which the learning activities outside, as well as inside, the class room form a coherent and effective whole can improve courses dramatically.