Realization of a Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Microfabrication Education Program at Binghamton University

Abstract

Microfabrication is a critical area to many branches of science and engineering. However, to many students accustomed to seeing transistors as things that come in a lab kit, it is an obscure subtopic of their discipline. Beginning in 2009, the authors undertook a broad multidisciplinary approach to bring microfabrication into all aspects of the Binghamton University science and engineering curriculum. This program was coupled with a comprehensive assessment activity to evaluate the program's effectiveness and continuously improve it year by year. This paper reports the details of the implementation process, the techniques that were found to bring a hands-on experience to large classes, and the lessons learned from the assessments of this program to make this topic a mainstream part of engineering and science education.

A flipped course delivery: A practitioner approach with a case study

“…For that, they map the questions asked in the CIE assessment to the course outcomes (CO). Then they compared them year wise (Weili et al, 2015). In Table 5, the statistical analysis is shown for the years 2013 and 2014.…”