Assessing the Learning Gains of Manufacturing Students in an Integrated Hands-on Curriculum

An Integrated Four-year Hands-on Design Curriculum: A Case Study

“…Hands-on learning experiences may promote learning at higher Bloom's Taxonomy levels [4]. Many institutions have found that the incorporation of hands-on components in courses have improved student learning [4]- [12]. Desai and Stefanek [13] performed a broad literature review of methods to improve retention of engineering students.…”

“…Although hands-on design experiences in courses are commonly found in engineering curricula, there are few integrated hands-on sequences found in institutions across all four years of the curriculum. Even fewer integrated hands-on sequences are found to be documented and assessed in the literature such as the sequences described in Ssemakula et al [12].…”