Asynchronous Engineering Instruction and Teaching Using MATLAB and Simulink

This presentation provides educators with tools and processes to better prepare students for integration into industry, while simultaneously increasing teaching impact and enabling knowledge sharing across a global population. Many academic engineering and math programs are now taught in an asynchronous fashion, also known as a “flipped classroom.” This format has demonstrated significant benefits such as increased student engagement, greater flexibility in learning, and broadened impact and reach, but simultaneously creates additional instructor overhead and effort. This discussion highlights how MATLAB^® and Simulink^® facilitate the teaching of various engineering topics such as controls, flight mechanics, and simulation, and their application to solving industry problems. Presenters will also discuss how to encapsulate information and use social media platforms such as YouTube to build an online teaching presence that can be leveraged by students both inside and outside your home university. Various methodologies, challenges, and lessons learned related to teaching an engineering curriculum asynchronously will also be discussed.