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How To Think About Fluids In and Out of Classrooms: Developing Interactive Strategies for Learning Fluid Mechanics in a Hybrid Setting

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2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference

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Virtual

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April 17, 2021

Start Date

April 17, 2021

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April 17, 2021

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4

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10.18260/1-2--38298

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https://peer.asee.org/38298

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Soheil Fatehiboroujeni Cornell University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-5129-7428

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Soheil Fatehiboroujeni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Soheil is working in the Active Learning Initiative to promote student learning and the use of computational tools such as Matlab and ANSYS in the context of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

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Matthew Jordan Ford University of Washington Tacoma Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-1053-7149

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Matthew Ford received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and materials science from the University of California, Berkeley, and went on to complete his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. After completing a postdoc with the Cornell Active Learning Initiative, he joined the School of Engineering and Technology at UW Tacoma to help start a brand-new mechanical engineering program. His teaching interests include solid mechanics, engineering design, and inquiry-guided learning.

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Hadas Ritz Cornell University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-5396-2962

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Hadas Ritz is a senior lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and a Faculty Teaching Fellow at the James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute (MTEI) at Cornell University, where she received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2008. Since then she has taught required and elective courses covering a wide range of topics in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering curriculum. In her work with MTEI she co-leads teaching workshops for new faculty and assists with other teaching excellence initiatives. Her main teaching interests include solid mechanics and engineering mathematics. Among other teaching awards, she received the 2021 ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award.

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Abstract

This extended abstract presents technology-enabled interventions that aim to enhance students’ engagement and performance with introductory fluid mechanics concepts in an online setting. We describe the development of a set of interventions consisting of (1) homework assignments with Matlab Live Scripts and (2) teamwork missions of building or finding fluid mechanics systems with everyday resources using a scavenger hunt mobile app. We explain how these tools are integrated with both synchronous and asynchronous instructions and assessments and compare that to the previous academic year when the course was taught in person. To evaluate the impact of these experiences on students we employ two different instruments. First, we compare students' performance in a Fluid Mechanics Concept Inventory assessment taken at the end of each semester. Furthermore, to measure the impact of changes introduced on students' learning behavior, thinking habits, and the sense of self-efficacy we use a set of validated items from Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) survey to track attitudinal changes between these two cohorts. Based on the collected data we then discuss the efficacy of our interventions for teaching fluid mechanics in an online setting and identify areas needing further improvement and redesign.

Fatehiboroujeni, S., & Ford, M. J., & Ritz, H. (2021, April), How To Think About Fluids In and Out of Classrooms: Developing Interactive Strategies for Learning Fluid Mechanics in a Hybrid Setting Paper presented at 2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, Virtual. 10.18260/1-2--38298

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