Mechanical Engineering Students Discuss Teaching: (2) Classroom Tools, Engagement & Guest Speakers

Students in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin give their opinions on how to best teach mechanical engineering. There are 13 videos covering different topics. This topic is on the use of classroom tools such as projectors, white boards, black boards and colored chalk, long rooms, Carlos Hidrovo, Thomas Kiehne. They also discuss the use of guest speakers in engineering classes, when it works and when it doesn't.

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Students should be learning to use color as a part of their own good pedagogy, by using colors while they are teaching. Also, students can learn to carry more than two color pens if they want to take colored notes. I started out carrying 2 black pens and 2 blue pens. I now also carry 2 green pens and 2 red pens, plus 3 different thicknesses of mechanical pencils. Adapt. No excuses.