Basic Laboratory Class for First-Year Students in Faculty of Science and Engineering

Abstract

Recently, introductory education is becoming important for engineering students. Under such a condition, a basic laboratory class was developed for first-year students at Setsunan University. The class is opened to five departments in Faculty of Science and Engineering. This paper describes the attempt of the class and discusses the effect of the class. The major results obtained are as follows;1) The number of students with confidence in science increased by completion of the class, 2) The report system that requires preparation of the class is considered to be effective for developing the study habits, 3) Most students were able to recognize importance of the team activity by joint hands-on learning to work on various experimental themes by the team.