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Developing undergraduate teaching materials in collaboration with pre-university students

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In this project we have involved four high-achieving pre-university summer placement students in the development of undergraduate teaching materials, namely tutorial videos for first year undergraduate Electrical and Electronic Engineering lab, and computer simulations of didactic semiconductor structures for an Electrical Science first year compulsory taught module. Here we describe our approach and preliminary results.

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  1. Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    R. A. Sporea

  2. Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    P. J. B. Jackson

  3. Department of Higher Education, University of Surrey, Guildford, Guildford, UK

    S. Lygo-Baker

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Sporea, R.A., Jackson, P.J.B. & Lygo-Baker, S. Developing undergraduate teaching materials in collaboration with pre-university students. MRS Advances 2, 1713–1719 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2017.333

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