Technology Enabled Content In Engineering Science Curriculum

Abstract

Engineering technology technical courses often have both lecture and accompanying laboratory sessions. The laboratory assignments reinforce the understanding of the topics studied during the lecture sessions. A planning grant was awarded from the National Science Foundation through their Bridges for Engineering Education Program to develop technology-enabled content in engineering science courses. Content was developed to appeal to a variety of learning styles and to support student-centered learning. This paper will describe the content development and delivery and discuss the impact it had on engineering technology education. Course / Content DevelopmentContent was developed to support a course in Flexible Automation offered in the College of Applied Science. The content was developed collaboratively among educational technology experts in the College of Engineering, faculty from the College of Applied Science, and experts in instructional design in the College of Education. The project sought to develop content that would appeal to a variety of student learning styles and thus better engage the students in the learning process 1 . The various modes of instruction developed during the project were categorized as: