PIs: Joe Tront, Butch Nunnally, Dong Ha, Professors, Electrical Engineering

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: "Students were failing the course, and it is a gateway course that is used for CPE, CS, and EE’s, so there is considerable volume going through and there are I guess are lots of potential problems with differences in the way the course is taught and it’s kind of the doorway or the gatekeeper course, the first one that students encounter in the EE curriculum typically, the CP curriculum."
Project Grants and Expenditures: $18,000 (year 8), graduate assistants



 


The project involved gathering a team to "implement some modifications to courses, develop technology-based delivery mechanisms... technology presentations that would be common amongst all the people who teach it."

Project staff developed shared notes to build consistency in teaching, and they have been working toward this goal: to place "600 questions on the Web and make them interactive so as the student goes through and tests themselves on the questions, tries the questions, they will get some interaction and say well that is not the way you should have done it, this is the way you should have done it."