Improvement in Laboratory Skills and Knowledge Achieved Through Individual Student Lab Participation

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2009

Department

Engineering & Computing Sciences

Abstract

In a fundamental electrical engineering laboratory course, the performance of students in a solo laboratory team organization was contrasted with the performance of students utilizing a multiple student lab team model. The students' performance on the laboratory final practicum exam provided an indicator of their individually acquired knowledge and skills. The student's participation individually in lab resulted in marked improvement in the their ability to learn rudimentary laboratory skills and knowledge and their ability to apply them in basic circuits analysis applications. Several other factors were investigated that could have contributed to this increase in student performance on the final laboratory practicum exam; however, the only factor that significantly and independently contributed to the students' laboratory skills and knowledge base proved to be student level of participation in the laboratory exercises. The …

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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