CREATIVE LEARNING IN A MICRODEVICE RESEARCH-INSPIRED ELECTIVE COURSE for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

摘要

It is widely touted that the use of research ideas can create excitement for learning in the classroom. This paper describes the development of a research-inspired Analytical Microdevice Technology (AMT) course for undergraduates and graduate students at Mississippi State University. Mi-croscale research is a challenging area within which to do this because microscopes are required to observe most phenomena in microdevices. The approaches used in this course were designed to overcome the challenges with directly observing fluid and particle dynamics at the microscale, while still demonstrating the powerful nature of this area of engineering.