"We encourage the Institute to conduct several curricular experiments ... including: ... modify existing freshmen-level GIRs by injecting significant components of inquiry-based learning" --Preliminary Findings and Recommendations of the Educational Design Project , 8/99, p.9 UTEACH is developing and teaching pilot versions of several hands-on classes for the freshmen year. During Fall 1999, Ben Davis '99 (UTEACH Coordinator) and Eric Smith '01 (ESG undergraduate) are developing and teaching a project-based version of 8.01 in ESG. This class covers the same topics as regular curriculum 8.01, with a focus on how the concepts are useful to engineering and design. The class assignments include increasingly open-ended design projects where the students apply the physics they have learned and their creativity to designing and sometimes building real-world projects. This course has a web page, and you can contact the course developers at 801d@mit.edu UTEACH is developing a series of hands-on labs for the Integrated Studies Program. UTEACH is developing a residence-based project-oriented robotics seminar. More details are available here. back to the UTEACH home page