Designing and Building Balsa Bridges conducted as Pre-College Engineering Education for Senior High School Students

• MATSUISHI Masakatsu

  金沢工業大学工学部

• TAKEMATA Kazuya

  金沢工業大学工学部

• TANI Masashi

  金沢工業大学工学部

• KITAMURA Toru

  福井県立若狭高等学校

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 高校生に工学の導入教育として実施したバルサブリッジの設計と製作

Abstract

In order to stimulate young students' interest in science and engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) and Wakasa Senior High School (WSHS) started a collaboration project in 2000. KIT gives a two-day pre-college engineering course for students from WSHS. Students are asked to design stronger bridges using as little material as possible. As students have little engineering knowledge, we intend to achieve the objective of the course by three pedagogical concepts: the Plan-Do-Check-Action Cycle, hands-on exercises, and cooperative learning. Besides gaining technical knowledge, this project also helped students in initiating their decision on their majors before entering universities. This paper discusses the experience of the pre-college engineering course and results of student feedback.

Journal

• Journal of JSEE

  Journal of JSEE 52 (1), 55-59, 2004

  Japanese Society for Engineering Education

Keywords

• Introductory Engineering Education
• Exercise at Engineering Department of University
• Senior High School
• Hands-on Exercise

Details

• CRID: 1390282679470590720
• NII Article ID: 10011963498
• NII Book ID: AN10486063
• DOI: 10.4307/jsee.52.55
• ISSN: 18810764
• ISSN: 13412167
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • Crossref
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed