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Instruction in Experimental Methods: What Should We Be Teaching in Laboratory Courses?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bridges, David H. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | An experimental methods course differs from other courses in an undergraduate aerospace engineering curriculum in that there is no standard syllabus for the experimental methods course. A discussion group within the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee was formed to address this issue. Two invited presentation sessions and an invited paper session were held at AIAA conferences. No standard curriculum was produced by these sessions. However, a theme common to most presentations was that students should be taught to think critically about what they are doing in the lab. The largest divergence in opinion was over the “breadth vs. depth” issue. Other common themes were the importance of uncertainty analysis, signal processing, and communications skills. The results of two informal surveys conducted by some of the authors are summarized, and the laboratory courses of other authors are used as illustrations of various practices in experimental methods instruction. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.2514/6.2010-79 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.cavs.msstate.edu/publications/docs/2010/01/8363IEMpaper_2010-0079.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2010-79 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
