{"id":67891,"date":"2007-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professors-awarded-nsf-grant-to-develop-new-lab-curriculum\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professors-awarded-nsf-grant-to-develop-new-lab-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/uri-professors-awarded-nsf-grant-to-develop-new-lab-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 professors awarded NSF grant to develop new lab curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tFor Further Information:\tMayrai Gindy 401-874-5587<\/p>\n


\nNew approach to engineering education at 溏心vlog免费B站 has students designing their own experiments<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 28, 2007 \u2013 Students enrolled in a new structural engineering laboratory course at the 溏心vlog免费B站 not only have to successfully complete a series of complex scientific experiments, they also have to design the experiments themselves.<\/p>\n


\n\tThis new approach to teaching engineering skills and problem solving is the result of a National Science Foundation grant awarded to two 溏心vlog免费B站 civil engineering professors who recognize that students learn better through self-directed inquiry rather than simple transmission of knowledge.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe lab challenges students to reach a deeper level of understanding by clearly defining an engineering problem, creatively outlining several testing approaches, successfully formulating a convincing argument, and effectively communicating with group members,\u201d said Mayrai Gindy, assistant professor of civil engineering. \u201cThis learner-centered, discovery-based approach to an interdisciplinary topic strengthens students\u2019 technical and practical experiences while intensifying their enthusiasm for learning.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tGindy and Professor George Tsiatas were awarded the $148,462 grant to design a laboratory course in structural engineering instrumentation and measurements. Working in collaboration with an external evaluator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, they are designing learning materials and a series of increasingly complex modules that resemble real-world situations.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn one example, students learn to identify and assess structural damage to steel trusses without being provided with a predefined experimental procedure. Several different approaches to the problem \u2013 each using unrelated measurement devices and technologies — will yield successful results, so it is likely that different students will approach the same problem in a variety ways.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis laboratory introduces engineering students to a completely new way of approaching experiments through discovery-based learning,\u201d Gindy said. \u201cUltimately it should help students learn and retain engineering concepts and principles more effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter designing the learning modules, faculty partners from Rutgers University and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth will test them with their students and evaluate their use before they become a permanent part of the curriculum.<\/p>\n


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For Further Information: Mayrai Gindy 401-874-5587 New approach to engineering education at 溏心vlog免费B站 has students designing their own experiments KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 28, 2007 \u2013 Students enrolled in a new structural engineering laboratory course at the 溏心vlog免费B站 not only have to successfully complete a series of complex scientific experiments, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}