TY - JOUR
T1 - Problem-based freshman engineering course
AU - Smith, Karl A.
AU - Mahler, Michael
AU - Szafranski, Jon
AU - Werner, Dawn
PY - 1997/12/1
Y1 - 1997/12/1
N2 - Problem-based learning is very suitable for engineering because it helps students develop skills and confidence for formulating problems they've never seen before. The intellectual activity of building mathematical and computer models to solve-problems, which is an explicit activity of constructing or creating the qualitative or quantitative relationships, helps students understand, explain and predict. The process of building models together in face-to-face interpersonal interaction, results in learning that is difficult to achieve in any other way.
AB - Problem-based learning is very suitable for engineering because it helps students develop skills and confidence for formulating problems they've never seen before. The intellectual activity of building mathematical and computer models to solve-problems, which is an explicit activity of constructing or creating the qualitative or quantitative relationships, helps students understand, explain and predict. The process of building models together in face-to-face interpersonal interaction, results in learning that is difficult to achieve in any other way.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0031383338
SN - 0190-1052
JO - ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings
T2 - Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference
Y2 - 15 June 1997 through 18 June 1997
ER -