2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Best Overall Zone Paper: Zone IV - Innovations in Remote Teaching of Engineering Design Teams

Presented at TUESDAY PLENARY & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker

The University of Washington’s Engineering Innovation in Health program is a yearlong engineering design course sequence where senior undergraduate and graduate engineering students across different disciplines work in teams with health professionals to address their unmet needs. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, these team- and project-based courses shifted from an in-person to remote course environment. Here, we share innovative teaching strategies for team-based, remote course environments. We show how this shift affected productivity by comparing survey results from before (in person) and during (remote) the pandemic. Preliminary results show that overall project outcomes and productivity were as high or, in some cases, higher during the pandemic than prior to the pandemic.

These findings suggest that the innovative remote teaching strategies implemented by the teaching team provided effective options in the absence of certain hands-on experiences that are considered critical to engineering capstone design courses.

Authors

Soyoung Kang University of Washington [biography]

Soyoung Kang (she/her) is an assistant teaching professor and Clary Family Foundation early career professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Washington (UW). She is also the executive director of the Engineering Innovation in Health (EIH) program that partners teams of multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate students with health professionals to develop technical solutions to pressing health challenges. Dr. Kang works closely with faculty from across the UW to foster an ecosystem of training and support for students and to develop innovative teaching practices focused on team- and project-based learning.
Dr. Ken Yasuhara http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2703-6623 University of Washington
Dr. Per G. Reinhall University of Washington
Kathleen E Kearney University of Washington
Jonathan T.C. Liu University of Washington
Jonathan D. Posner University of Washington
Erin Blakeney University of Washington
Dr. Eric J. Seibel University of Washington
Shayla Payne

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