Discipline: Technology and Engineering
Subcategory: Civil/Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering
Malcolm X. Jackson - Prairie View A&M University
Co-Author(s): Diwei Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M University, TX; Chang Duan, Prairie View A&M University, TX; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University, TX
In most of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) classes, the students are mostly kept in a passive role in the learning process. The students learned by following the directions of instructors. It is our hypothesis that allowing students to create the screencasts and share them with their fellow peers will improve students’ CAD learning and help them develop life-long learning skills. In this project, we designated a group of students to utilize the skills learned in class and create descriptive screencasts with audio support to teach their peers the methods of creating the CAD assignment. The students submitted the screencasts into an online electronic repository named Ecourses. Then fellow students watched the screencasts and gave their comments to improve their techniques or approaches to the CAD assignment. This method helps students develop life-long learning skills and instill what they learned in class. A life-long learning survey, an engineering attitude survey, an exit project survey, and a CAD modeling exam were used as the assessment instruments. The results indicated that the students’ CAD modeling skills had been improved. The findings also showed that the project has positive impact on students’ life-long learning skills and engineering attitude. In the future studies, we will include more students as participants and increase the number of screencast assignment given to each students.
Not SubmittedFunder Acknowledgement(s): This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under HBCU-UP Program (Grant Number1435073).
Faculty Advisor: Xiaobo Peng, xipeng@pvamu.edu
Role: I tutored the students in using the CAD program NX and assisted them when making the screencast.