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  Session: Experimental Design at All Levels
  Paper Type: Contributed
  Title: Goal-Focused Design in an Introductory Lab Course
  Meeting: 2018 Summer Meeting: Washington, DC
  Location: N/A
  Date:
  Time: 1:40PM
  Author: Nathan D. Powers,, Brigham Young University,
8014225393, ndp5@byu.edu
  Co-Author(s): None
  Abstract: An important part of design is maintaining an understanding of and focus on the goals of a project. This comes more naturally when students set and seek to accomplish their own goals. I have adapted an introductory lab course to include significantly more student design, including a culminating student-designed project for which both the goals and design are chosen by the student. Each week students attend a workshop which allows them to separate design and implementation. In the workshops, students can compartmentalize pieces of the overall design, set incremental goals, and design around those goals in a collaborative environment.
  Footnotes: None
  Presentation: sm2018_PowersN.pdf

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