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Summary: Session T1F
0-7803-6424-4/00/$10.00 © 2000 IEEE October 18 - 21, 2000 Kansas City, MO
30th
ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
T1F-9
WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT LEARNING PHYSICS, MATH, AND
ENGINEERING
Ann McKenna1
, Flora McMartin and Alice Agogino2
1
Graduate Group in Engineering, Science, and Mathematics Education, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720,
amck@socrates.berkeley.edu
2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
Abstract: Faculty from the mathematics, physics, and
engineering departments at the University of California have
collaborated over the past three years to restructure first
year and lower division courses. Specific courses have been
restructured in order to improve students' integrative
understanding of calculus and the physical sciences, and
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