Learning Fundamental Concepts and Skills in the Mechanical Engineering Core

This project builds upon two years of pedagogical innovation and educational research undertaken by several dozen faculty in the department of Mechanical Engineering and led by Professor Seering. That work led to important insights into how students approach learning in MechE, and, correspondingly, to an understanding of the pedagogies that facilitate their learning. Over the next three years this new project will focus specifically on identifying both core concepts (called "enduring understanding" in the literature) and the fundamental skill of "engineering reasoning" and devising strategies to teach them more successfully.