However, a diminishing interest of young people to pursue STEM subjects increasingly becomes a serious concern for many nations such that the issue is sometimes called the STEM crisis or national crisis 17 for example, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Japan, UK and the US. It is widely acknowledged that academic performance in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) subjects plays a pivotal role in sustaining economic growth and advancing technological innovations. The education of engineers is generally targeted to (a) prepare students for research, (b) prepare graduates for employment in the engineering industry, (c) prepare engineering/science/numerically literate citizens for society and (d) provide an intellectually stimulating education. It improved (a) students' engagement in teaching complex theoretical concepts, (b) students satisfaction of the course and (c) students performance in working with the industry-standard package over the second half of the semester. It was shown that the Ipython environment is a very useful tool which provides learning-by-doing practices allowing students to have a coherent integrated lecture, tutorial, and assignment material in a highly interactive way. The remaining 60% of the mark was based on a final project from the materials taught on using an industry-standard CFD package in solving complex CFD problems during the second half of the semester. The materials produced were used on the first part of the course which contributed 40% towards the course's final mark and delivered the fundamental concepts of CFD over the first half of the semester. The tool allows the implementation of backward curriculum design and a learn-by-doing approach in redesigning the course.
#Inotebook parts series#
IPython Notebook is used to design a series of integrated lecture slides and tutorial tasks, and also one of the assignments for the blended-learning-based, semester-run, CFD course. We investigate the use of backward design and a novel tool called IPython (Jupyter) Notebook to redesign a postgraduate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) course. The present research proposes an approach based upon the combination of Jupyter Notebook and an industry-standard package to teach an applied, computationally related course.
The teaching of such subjects can be improved by the use of advanced open-source web applications. However, it is always a challenge to teach theoretical/fundamental concepts in the computational-related courses.
#Inotebook parts professional#
To improve the competency of students in using such professional packages, it is important that students develop a good understanding of theoretical/fundamental concepts used on the packages. It is common that industry-standard packages are used in teaching professional engineering courses in final-year undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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