An Inquiry-Based Introduction to Engineering - Softcover

Blum, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030914739 ISBN 13: 9783030914738

Publisher: Springer, 2023

Synopsis

The text introduces engineering to first-year undergraduate students using Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL). It draws on several different inquiry-based instruction types such as confirmation inquiry, structured inquiry, guided inquiry, and open inquiry, and all of their common elements.  Professor Blum’s approach emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process, empowering them in the classroom to explore the material, ask questions, and share ideas, instead of the instructor lecturing to passive learners about what they need to know. Beginning with a preface to IBL, the book is organized into three parts, each consisting of four to ten chapters. Each chapter has a dedicated topic where an initial few paragraphs of introductory or fundamental material are provided. This is followed by a series of focused questions that guide the students’ learning about the concept(s) being taught. Featuring multiple inquiry-based strategies, each most appropriate to the topic, An Inquiry-Based Approach to Introduction to Engineering stands as an easy to use textbook that quickly allows students to actively engage with the content during every class period.

 

 

About this title

About the Author

Dr. ​Michelle M. Blum is Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

and Director, Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in New York.

From the Back Cover

The text introduces engineering to first-year undergraduate students using Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL). It draws on several different inquiry-based instruction types such as confirmation inquiry, structured inquiry, guided inquiry, and open inquiry, and all of their common elements.  Professor Blum’s approach emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process, empowering them in the classroom to explore the material, ask questions, and share ideas, instead of the instructor lecturing to passive learners about what they need to know. Beginning with a preface to IBL, the book is organized into three parts, each consisting of four to ten chapters. Each chapter has a dedicated topic where an initial few paragraphs of introductory or fundamental material are provided. This is followed by a series of focused questions that guide the students’ learning about the concept(s) being taught. Featuring multiple inquiry-based strategies, each most appropriate to the topic, An Inquiry-Based Approach to Introduction to Engineering stands as an easy to use textbook that quickly allows students to actively engage with the content during every class period.

• Moves instructors and students beyond passive, transmission-based learning, using inquiry based learning strategies;
  
• Focuses on technical and life skill content as well as how to maximize outcomes using inquiry-based learning;
  
• Contextualizes inquiry based learning across engineering disciplines.
  

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030914739
• ISBN 13: 9783030914738
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336