JSM 2004 - Toronto

Abstract #300608

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Activity Number: 120
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 9, 2004 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #300608
Title: Group Learning, Contextual Projects, Simulation Models, and Student Presentations for Enticing Engineering Statistics Students
Author(s): Jorge L. Romeu*+
Companies: Syracuse University
Address: Dpt. Mech., Aeronaut. & Manufac. Eng., Syracuse, NY, 13244-1240,
Keywords: statistics education ; modeling ; data analysis ; industrial applications
Abstract:

Most engineering students take few, if any, statistics courses in their curriculum. And these are often theoretically oriented and packed with material, which does not help raise student interest in the subject. ECS526, "Engineering Statistics" is the main statistics course in our Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management MS curricula. ECS526 provides the statistics methods and practice that serve as a basis for all other engineering program courses that use statistics. We discuss our teaching approach using learning groups, contextual projects, discrete event simulation models of real systems, and modern technology, to help bring out student motivation. We discuss the use of student group projects and simulation models to generate, model, and analyze data, within practical engineering applications. We discuss how class topics are divided and assigned to student groups for study, resolution, and presentation to their peers. We discuss course objectives and classroom strategies, testing, grading schemes, software tools used, and results obtained. Finally, we present several examples of student final projects.

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