Resumen de Fluid mechanics experimental set-up designed and built by graduate student for undergraduates
In the presented study, an experimental set-up for use in an undergraduate fluid mechanics laboratory was designed, built andconstructed by a graduate student. Two basic educational objectives were determined for this study: to give a good education tothe graduate student as both a graduate teaching assistant and as an engineer, and to create a laboratory experiment forundergraduates. Important aspects of experimental studies were introduced to the undergraduate students by using the built set-up,from understanding the basic theory to performing error calculations. The objectives that were fulfilled for the graduate student’seducation were evaluated using Bloom’s taxonomy. The improvement in undergraduate knowledge on the subject was examined bycomparing the scores that the undergraduates attained in oral exams that they took before they conducted the experiments with thescores that they achieved from the reports they prepared after they had conducted the experiments.
