Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Las Vegas, Nevada, March 12-15, 2015

Paper A011

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Multidisciplinary Project-Based Learning In STEM: A Case Study

Bowen Brawner


Department of Mathematics
Tarleton State University
Box T-0470
Stephenville, TX 76402

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ABSTRACT

A project-based multidisciplinary course was designed at Tarleton State University in the 2011-2012 academic year. A NASA design-build-fly competition was used to frame the course; however, the main reason was to provide a real multidisciplinary experience across the STEM fields. The objective was to mirror industry's research life cycle from end-to-end. The first offering of the course included 10 students from mathematics, physics, computer science, biology, and engineering. The competition that framed the experience was the 2012 CanSat Competition hosted by the Naval Research Labs (NRL) and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Keyword(s): applications, student research