{"id":17799,"date":"2022-01-06T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intranet2.valpo.edu\/cital\/?post_type=professorial_lecture&p=17799"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:28:24","slug":"active-learning-in-engineering-from-service-learning-to-project-based-learning","status":"publish","type":"professorial_lecture","link":"https:\/\/intra.valpo.edu\/cital\/professorial-lecture\/active-learning-in-engineering-from-service-learning-to-project-based-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Learning in Engineering: From Service Learning to Project Based Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before accepting my appointment at Valparaiso University, I had never been taught <\/em>how to teach engineering. In my interview, I mimicked the excellent professors and educators that I had been exposed to \u2013 my parents, my elementary\/junior high\/senior high school teachers, and my college and graduate school professors. When I attended a teaching workshop the summer after my first year at Valpo, I found my true passion \u2013 studying how to best teach engineering. In this lecture, I will focus on the trials, failures, and successes of innovative teaching strategies that I have attempted and in some cases studied. These include leading senior design teams to Nicaragua, helping the SAE team build a car that reached 713 mpg, guiding students to develop new laboratory equipment, and determining how to best teach sustainability principles. I will also describe a current project with Rob Swanson and Andy Richter and two engineering students on how we will modify a $150 guitar so that it sounds as good as a $5000 guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n