Improving Student Knowledge Through Experiential Learning - A Hands-On Statics Lab at Virginia Tech

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dc.contributor.authorAlcorn, Christopher G.en
dc.contributor.committeechairAuchey, Flynn L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBeliveau, Yvan J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMills, Thomas H.en
dc.contributor.departmentBuilding Constructionen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:57:44Zen
dc.date.adate2003-07-29en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:57:44Zen
dc.date.issued2003-05-28en
dc.date.rdate2003-07-29en
dc.date.sdate2003-07-01en
dc.description.abstractImproving Student Knowledge through Experiential Learning รข A Hands-On Statics Lab at Virginia Tech By: Christopher G. Alcorn It has been well documented that humans learn better through a combination of hearing, seeing, and hands-on experience than through hearing and seeing alone. Despite these findings, the majority of college instruction is through lecture. This research seeks to improve the quality of structural education for students in Building Construction, Architecture, and Engineering by allowing them to test theoretical structural concepts in a hands-on, lab environment that parallels their statics lecture class. The paper provides a background on the experiential learning approach, presents examples of others engaged in similar research, discusses the details of developing the experience-based lab class, describes the labs and their structure, and summarizes the outcome of this model class. Lessons learned, including which type of student might benefit most from the experiential learning format and shortcomings of applying the experiential learning model are discussed along with recommendations for future work. An appendix at the end of the paper displays the workbook developed to teach the class as well as pictures of the labs in action and costs of lab equipment. This project is a part of a multi-college initiative at Virginia Tech to develop a three-lab sequence to parallel Statics, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, and Mechanical Behavior.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-07012003-215241en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07012003-215241/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/37134en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartETD-AlcornReport-072803.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectIntegrationen
dc.subjectSUCCEEDen
dc.subjectFrameen
dc.subjectTaxonomyen
dc.subjectEquilibriumen
dc.subjectStructureen
dc.subjectBloomen
dc.subjectShearen
dc.subjectExercisesen
dc.subjectBendingen
dc.subjectKolben
dc.subjectPhysicalen
dc.subjectActiveen
dc.subjectMomenten
dc.titleImproving Student Knowledge Through Experiential Learning - A Hands-On Statics Lab at Virginia Techen
dc.typeMaster's projecten
thesis.degree.disciplineBuilding Constructionen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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