2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Let’s face it- no one wants to watch an instructor talk for hours on an engineering topic, especially with so many distractions readily available to students on the computer that are simply one click away. Even video content that includes well-edited animations and graphics can still be boring when presented by the voice of an unseen orator. Students want teacher immediacy.

The following video documents the adventures of one civil engineering instructor who has sought to provide amusing and informative classroom experiences and online educational videos. The video will describe planning the content, delivering the content (including how to develop scripts and costumes), using real-world examples in the content when possible, and implementing the lessons.

As online video content continues to remain popular with college students, this video “paper” challenges the norm that academic documentation must appear in written form in either journals or conference proceedings. However, for anyone who is not used to watching online videos to learn new topics, a short, written paper will accompany the video.

Author Notes: The author is excited to present this content in-person in a fun and engaging manner at the conference. It seems that the Mini-Class Demo session would possibly be a nice fit, although the author would also be fine in a regular session and will of course deliver an engaging presentation. Either way, the author envisions the “paper” to mainly be recorded in an online video and that the actual written paper will be brief.

In line with the theme of the paper, the author thought it was appropriate that the Abstract be submitted as a video as well: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f-rXONWNILGzQwGgH5UUriuKoYj-Zcv5?usp=share_link