scholarly journals An Online Engineering Dynamics Class for College Sophomores: Design, Implementation, and Assessment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anurag Purwar ◽  
Catherine Scott
Keyword(s):  
College Sophomores

Implementation of Paul Revere: Tough as Nails, an Integrated Project-Based Course on Materials Science and History of Technology

2004 ◽  
Vol 827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Stolk ◽  
Robert Martello ◽  
Franklin W. Olin
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
Technical Content ◽  
Hands On ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
High Level ◽  
College Sophomores

AbstractOlin College sophomores participate in integrated course blocks that merge technical content with business, arts, humanities, and social science topics, allowing students to work on engineering projects that have broader implications than the purely technical. In this paper, we present Paul Revere: Tough as Nails, a multidisciplinary course block that combines an introductory materials science course with a history of technology course and a large scale project. In Paul Revere, students explore connections between historical and technological materials science developments through examinations of Paul Revere's metallurgical work and analyses of the relevant social, environmental, political, and economic aspects that contribute to ancient and modern technologies. The explicit linkages among technical, non-technical, and hands-on aspects of the course improve learning of traditional topics, help drive interdisciplinary thinking, and lead to a high level of student satisfaction and motivation throughout the semester.

Effects of Changing Proportions of the Sexes on Ratings of Occupational Prestige

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Parker Hawkins ◽  
Suzanne Pingree
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Ratios ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
High Status ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
College Sophomores

Touhey (1974) has suggested that an influx of women into high-status, male-dominated professions will result in declining prestige and desirability for those professions. The present study attempts both a replication and an extension to examine results of changing sex ratios in low-status and female-dominated occupations. Replication of the previous finding and its predicted extension to high-status women's jobs occurred only with college sophomores; juniors and seniors generally did not respond to sex composition, although they did rate high-status men's jobs as even more prestigious with a larger proportion of women employed in the job. Results for the low-status jobs were less clear, possibly reflecting the distance of college students from such occupations. Unlike Touhey's, these results are not interpreted as predicting future occupational prestige, but only as reflecting current attitudes about women and men.

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