Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career (Fourth Edition) by Raymond B. Landis

Author:Raymond B. Landis [Landis, Raymond B.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780979348747
Publisher: Discovery Press
Published: 2013-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Even if you are able to make it through engineering study on your own, you will miss out on many of the benefits of collaborative learning and group study.

OVERVIEW OF COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

In a previous section, we discussed teaching modes: large lectures, small lectures, recitations, and tutoring sessions. Now we turn to learning modes. There are really only two:

(1) Solitary

(2) Collaborative

Either you try to learn by yourself or you do it with others.

As I travel the country, I always make an effort to visit Introduction to Engineering classes, where I ask students, “How many of you, when you study, spend some of that time with at least one other student?” Generally, in a class of 30 students, three or four hands will go up. Then I ask, “How many of you spend all of your time studying by yourself?” And the remaining 90 percent of hands go up.

My anecdotal research indicates that about 90 percent of first-year engineering students do virtually 100 percent of their studying alone.

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