Title

Arch Building for Kids: What Did They Learn? What Did We Learn?

Author Info

Edmond P. Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis ObispoFollow

Recommended Citation

Presented at ASEE National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 22, 2008.

Abstract

This paper will describe a teaching module that several senior architectural engineering students developed as their senior project. The teaching module targeted 5th or 6th grade students with the goal of creating an engineering outreach program that demonstrated a structural mechanics concept in a fun and interesting manner. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rationale behind the teaching module, and to document the changes we made to the module as we assessed its impact over several trial runs.

Disciplines

Architectural Engineering

Number of Pages

16

Publisher statement

Published by ASEE.