scholarly journals Making Elementary Engineering Work: Partnerships and Practice, Stevens Institute of Technology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth McGrath ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
Augusto Macalalag
Keyword(s):  
Stevens Institute ◽  
Elementary Engineering ◽  
Engineering Work ◽  
Institute Of Technology

An Improved Undergraduate Human Factors Course: Three Results

1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 455-458
Author(s):  
Richard Halstead-Nussloch ◽  
Mark C. Detweiler ◽  
M. Peter Jurkat ◽  
Elissa L.A. Hamilton ◽  
Leon S. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Course Enrollment ◽  
Stevens Institute ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Institute Of Technology

The undergraduate human factors course was improved at the Stevens Institute of Technology. The objectives of the course improvement were twofold: 1) to increase the quality of the course, and 2) to increase enrollment. Computer-based modules were developed and implemented to achieve these objectives. Three primary findings emerged from their use. First, students finished the course with a firm grounding in the empirical and experimental methods of human factors. Second, students generated more design solution alternatives by using the modules. Third, course enrollment increased by seventy-five percent.

On the Integration of Remote and Virtual Experiments Into a Comprehensive Student Laboratory Experience

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
El-Sayed S. Aziz ◽  
Constantin Chassapis ◽  
Sven K. Esche
Keyword(s):  
Experimental System ◽  
Asynchronous Learning ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Laboratory Experience ◽  
Virtual Experiments ◽  
Laboratory Education ◽  
Stevens Institute ◽  
Student Laboratory ◽  
Institute Of Technology

Student laboratories have always played a key role in the engineering education at Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT). Recently, SIT has designed and implemented several innovative Web-based tools for engineering laboratory education and evaluated their learning effectiveness in pilot deployments in various engineering courses. These Web-based tools include both remotely operated experiments based on actual experimental devices as well as virtual experiments representing software simulations. These tools facilitate the development of learning environments, which - possibly in conjunction with traditional hands-on experiments - allow the expansion of the scope of the students' laboratory experience well beyond the confines of what would be feasible in the context of traditional laboratories. This becomes possible because of the scalability of resources that are shared through the Web and the flexibility of software simulations in varying the characteristic parameters of the experimental system under investigation. Further educational benefits of the proposed laboratory approach are that asynchronous learning modes are supported and discovery-based self-learning, of the students is promoted. This paper will present the details of the approach taken at SIT in integrating these Web-based tools into a comprehensive student laboratory experience. As an example for the implementation of such Web-based experiments, an Industrial-Emulator/Servo-Trainer System will be described, which is used at SIT in a junior-level course on mechanisms and machine dynamics.

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