A few weeks after we launched the Experience Controls textbook app, we received an email from a student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Curtis Collins, taking his Control Systems course, was looking for some extra resources to...
The crossroads between technology and education can be a difficult one, especially for engineering or other STEM educators. A lot of great research has been done investigating the effectiveness of different educational technologies, however much of what exists pertains to...
Tsinghua University consistently ranks as one of the top engineering schools in the world. But like many educational institutions, Tsinghua faced some challenges motivating students. They knew more than traditional theory-heavy approaches to teaching were needed. Guided by the example...
I first encountered the concept of remote labs, or remotely accessible laboratory hardware, twelve years ago. Since then, the state of the art in telepresence and communications systems has progressed in leaps and bounds, but, somehow, remotely accessible engineering labs...
Before I begin, let me start by saying that if your institution is doing project-based learning (or PBL, as we call it in the 'biz'), then you are already ahead of the pack. Most engineering education is still stuck in...
Modernizing engineering education is hard. A big part of the problem is that engineering is a combination of the exciting and sexy world of self-driving cars and landing rockets, and the reality of years of mathematics and intensive software engineering...
