Motivating Students In An Introduction To Computing Course By Requiring Animated Solutions
David Myszka · 2020
Technical computations is a vital skill for most engineering positions.Nearly every technical program requires some form of a computing course.Yet, students typically struggle with motivation and enthusiasm for these courses In an attempt to provide extra incentive, students in an first-year technical computing course at the University of Dayton were required to animate their solution.It was observed that the students found great deal of satisfaction with achieving visual output.Students still performed classic introductory engineering calculations, but they were giving significant extra effort so they can watch their solution.This paper documents our strategy, gives examples of the computer programs, and reviews the encouraging results of student satisfaction surveys.