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Jupyter notebooks enable engineering students to jump into design work and experience engineering.

Current Knowledge

  • "Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself." - John Dewey
  • "the point of engineering programs is not to produce mathematicians; rather, it is to produce individuals that understand the scope and limitations of mathematical models so that students can practically and creatively apply such models scientifically to different problems and situations" (Wilkinson,
  • 11-out-of-26 engineering majors tinkered with projects as children. Kruz and
  • 10-out-of-26 engineering majors want a job. Kruz and
  • The most important ABET outcomes ranked by practicing engineers, employers, and recent graduates are 1-problem solving and 2-communication\cite{passow2017,evans1993}.
  • Both PBL and PjBL have shown to be effective in higher education\cite{carlile1998,morrison2004}. Students search, solve, create, and share approaches\cite{awang2008} using math models and measurements.
  • PjBL can have a positive effect on students' attitudes towards the course\cite{bell2010}.
  • Separating body from mind-and recognition from meaning-is a failure on the part of education (J. Dewey D&E p179)
  • Jupyter noteb

Gap in Knowledge

  • A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof. (J. Dewey Democracy and Education)

  • The goal is to build a community that leverages tinkerers as problem-solving mentors to help the job-seekers answer a call to adventure

Importance of Gap

  • Learning without experience is an illusion.
  • In order to fully understand and apply engineering knowledge, students need to struggle, experiment, and grow

Long term Goal

  • Long term the goal is to build interactive educational resources to foster community in education, because education is built upon experience and community

Overall objective

  • The overall objective of this talk is to demonstrate how Jupyter notebooks can
  • be used to build genuine design experience

Central Hypothesis

  • My central hypothesis is that learning is achieved in a social experience through trial-and-error

Rationale

I have been teaching for over four years and used Jupyter in a number of formats: as slides to present information and topics, as lab notebooks for engineering labs, as homework problems and examples, and as fully interactive course material.

Specific Aims

  • I aim to build Jupyter-based resources for engineering students

  • The notebooks provide a space to experiment and tinker

  • I aim to create community around these notebooks

■ If you are proposing hypothesis-driven research, write a bullet here that summarizes the working hypothesis for the first aim. If you are proposing research that is purely need driven, write a bullet that summarizes the main approaches/methods that will be employed to complete the stated task.

■ Continue by writing the two bullets described, above, for each of your aims.

■ Delete preceding Workbook text.

Creativity, Originality and/or Transformative Potential. The purpose of this component is to call attention to why/how the proposed research differs from what is being done elsewhere. Be sure that any claim of "transformative potential" that you make is not overreaching on your part.

■ Write your bullet(s) here and then delete preceding Workbook text..

Expected Outcomes. The purpose of Expected Outcomes is to tell reviewers what each of your aims is expected to produce and how those products collectively attain the overall objective of the grant application.

■ Write a bullet here for the expected outcome of each aim.

■ Write a bullet that tells reviewers that the expected outcomes collectively attain your overall objective for the project.

■ Delete the preceding Workbook text.

Generality Regarding Positive Impact. The purpose of this final bullet is to point out generally that the expected outcomes will positively impact your field. Collectively, by attaining the overall objective of the application they will advance the field vertically. Write the bullet at a general level. Make sure that it creates a seamless segue into the next, Expected Significance section.

■ Write your bullet here and then delete the preceding Workbook text.

As a suggestion, once you have completed the outline, leave it alone for a day or so. Our experience is that, if you do so, invariably you will be able to improve it. When you have reached the point of diminishing returns, show it to Co-PIs who are on the application with you. Consider having students/postdocs who will be involved in the project take a shot at it. That kind of collective effort will pay big dividends because, if the outline has been optimized, expanding its bullets into sentences will create a compelling first draft of your Overview & Objectives section that will need little refinement.