Pedagogical Techniques Employed in an Engineering Drawing Course

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A variety of teaching and learning tools were employed to introduce the first year Civil Engineering majors at The Citadel to engineering drawing. These techniques engaged and motivated students to learn the fundamentals of engineering drawing. The effectiveness of various teaching and learning tools was assessed directly by measuring student learning through questions on the final exam and indirectly by examining student responses on a self-perception survey at the end of the course. More than 75% of students rated team project, class-wide tutoring, hands-on activities on Auto-CAD, employing models, and summarizing and correcting misconceptions very highly. The direct assessment of the learning objectives also showed statistically significant gains in learning engineering drawing concepts. The paper will discuss the teaching and learning tools employed, as well as the direct and indirect assessment of course learning objectives.

Author(s):

Simon Ghanat    
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Citadel
United States

Kweku Brown    
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Citadel
United States