A team of student and faculty researchers published their paper, “Using Utility Value Interventions to Explore Student Connections to Engineering Mechanics Topics,” on ASEE PEER. The mechanical engineering Critical Research in Engineering
Three College of Engineering faculty members were published in the Research Journal for Engineering Education. The JEE paper, “Engineering students’ noncognitive and affective factors: Group differences from cluster analysis,” was co-authored by
Mechanical Engineering Department Chair Jim Widmann and Professor Brian Self will present “Inquiry-Based Learning: Hands-On Activities in Mechanics” during an upcoming live webcast presented by the Department of Research. “Inquiry-Based Learning” April 15th,
Brian Self, a Cal Poly mechanical engineering professor who has championed active learning techniques, is one of four faculty members in the California State University system to be presented with the Wang
A gauntlet of three intense classes — physics, statics and dynamics — presents a grueling test for the majority of freshman and sophomore engineering students at Cal Poly. And while most students
An advocate of evidence-based teaching practices whose classic dynamics textbook is used by students nationwide, Brian Self was recently named a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The ASEE,
