Abstract:
Formal lectures and laboratory experiments do not give students
sufficient experience of welding processes applied to specific fabrications.
A series of designs has been evolved which ib.capable of being fabricated
by several different methods and students are required to produce fabrication
procedures for each design. Suggested procedures are then discussed in an
open forum in which both staff and students participate.
The use of these exercises has been found to be a useful method whereby
course members can pass on their own experience to other students and in
which students learn to make decisions based on available, but often incomplete,
facts.
