Description Teaching assistantships are a form of work-focused experiential learning, in which graduate students apply their discipline-specific knowledge, and the classroom becomes the workplace. In this SoTL study, we are piloting a peer mentorship program for teaching assistants in the Lassonde School of Engineering. In this mentorship program, teaching assistants will observe each other’s classes […]
Description This project aims to prototype a fundamentally different way to imagine space engineering education in a sustainable way, through a prototype 12-week intensive experience for students from across all undergraduate age groups, with TA support, in Summer 2021. The 12-week prototype will trial different, highly-integrated approaches to material taught, teaching time and methods, learning […]
Description Many freshman engineering students are choosing their program or area of concentration with very little understanding of engineering itself. While traditional lab courses help students better grasp the studied theories, they rarely help to instill the idea that engineering is about “doing” and not just learning “equations, heuristics, and theories”. This project aims at […]
Description The program will be an interdisciplinary experiential learning course that can help promise ventures prepare for investment, and will primarily run over the summer, through LaunchYU summer program. Students will work in their venture teams to prepare their ventures for Business Angel crowd funding investment. Project Lead(s) Andrew Maxwell Faculty Lassonde School of Engineering […]
Description The primary goal of this research is to understand student and instructor perspectives of how flipped classrooms are implemented in the Lassonde School of Engineering. This research will use a mixed-methods approach to understand how flipped classrooms are implemented in the Lassonde School of Engineering. Flipped classrooms are a form of web-enhanced learning that […]
Description The aim is to enhance Petrie 133—a flipped classroom prototype—and create a benchmark of leading-edge education that will effectively enrich the learning experience at all levels, it will remove all accessibility constraints (time, place), and will be adult-friendly by offering flexibility and control over the nature, timing, and direction of the learning process. Project […]