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Thomas J. ImpellusoMechanical Engineering
ME203: Computer Programming Applications
COURSE RE-RE-RE-DESIGN
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ME203Status as of Fall, 2006:
Programming for Mechanical Engineers:loops, logic, arrays, files, functions
The class had been: “programming without purpose.” (Specific Mechanics Algorithms were not presented.)
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ME203Status as of Fall, 2006:
Class met in a lab and enrollment was limited by the thirty workstations.
Three instructors were needed each semester.
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Changes deployed as of Fall ’08 – mid-way
through re-design
• Cognitive Load to introduce mechanics
• Use of Blackboard for organization
• Use of Wimba for delivery
Especially, the Desktop Sharing.Special attention
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Engineering School Server
Student at home Instructor at home
Desktop Sharing
Wimba
Unlimited Students
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Enrollment
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
F '06 S '07 (*) F '07 S '08 F '08 S '09
1. No need to hire three instructors.
2. No need to support 30 workstations
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Final Exam Grade Comparison
Type of Student Fall 2006 Fall 2008
All students 53.25 76.28
Hispanic students 61.25 82.33
Female students 70.00 88.25
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Failing to Finish
Type of Student Fall 2006 Fall 2008
All students 25.9% 13%
Hispanic students 50% 16%
Female students 50% 0%
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Instructor Review
Fall, 2006 2.48 3.14
Fall, 2008 3.396 4.40
Spill over: Graduate classes average now about 4.5 to 5.0
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Theories
• No ‘herd’ mentality.
• Review in privacy of home.
• Cognitive Load Theory
• Scaffolding
• Minerva’s Machine
• Articulation
• Stacking Fear
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That completes the design.
BUT WE WANT MORE
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Re-design: 1/3
Captivating the entire class
Purpose: enables instructor to focus attention on the students in need.
(and now students are volunteering to turn the captivates into CD’s for ‘on-demand-learning)
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Re-re-design: 2/3
Adaptive Releas: In order to download the first five home-works, the students must first pass a short quiz about the syllabus.
Purpose: enables student motivation
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Re-re-re-design: 3/3
Peer Review: Will it replace the need for graders?
Purpose: enables learning communities.
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Personal Experience
Brace yourself and do half.
Prepare time to do the second half while teaching the first half because you see patterns emerge.
I think unbalanced focus on research results in course mis-articulation.
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Redesign
ME310: Machines and Mechanisms
Articulation Matters
ME499: Simulation Science
Was ME205; will become SDSU-grid
IEE: Informal Engineering Education
DaVinci/SDSU Island (With S.A.)
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Beam bending Angular Velocity
Kinematics
Truss AnalysisCentripetal Clutch
AerodynamicsDynamics: Runge-Kutta
Newton-Raphson
Bessel Functions
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Sincere and warm thank you to Suzanne Aurilio,
and to Jon Rizzo, too.