Combined application of CFD and flipped classroom practices in improving knowledge acqusition for an undergraduate water resources engineering related course

Ronald R. Gutierrez (), Jose H. Cabrera (), Frank Escusa () and Richard Pehovaz ()
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Ronald R. Gutierrez: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Jose H. Cabrera: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Frank Escusa: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Richard Pehovaz: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru

No 5808139, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Water resources management plays an important role in achieving sustainable development and economic growth. The physical aspect of water management is associated to water resources engineering, which is mainly founded in fluid mechanics. We coupled computer fluid dynamics (CFD) and flipped classroom practices to improve the learning and teaching processes of an undergraduate course focused on the experimental aspect of fluid mechanics in Peru, an upper-middle-income economy. Under the light of our results, we believe that such combined application also results on a viable alternative for universities that may face limitations on implementing a physical fluid mechanics laboratory, and encourages the formation of cooperative clusters of academic institutions around high-performing ones, to create common-pool fluid mechanics sources of educational information.

Keywords: Water resources and development; engineering teaching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 O13 Y80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2017-10
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 33rd International Academic Conference, Vienna, Oct 2017, pages 119-126

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