Retain Engineering Students with Everyday Examples in Engineering (E³s)
Download and use E³s lesson plans others have created—or get inspired and create your own
Subject-Area E³s Collections
The subject-area E³s links below feature links to lesson plans and solutions; engineering ideas that can be used to illustrate engineering concepts; and demonstrations—including directions for building and using them.
Everyday Example Collections
Send these lesson plans to your colleagues for their use. Tell fellow faculty members which examples worked best for you and your students.
Got stage fright? Watch video demonstrations of E³s
This section includes video demonstrations for Everyday Examples in selected course areas.
Dynamics
Engineering Graphics
Fluids
Mechanics
Physics
Thermodynamics
Do you know other faculty members who'd like help preparing these E³s demonstrations? Share these videos to lend a hand!
Create Your Own Everyday Examples
Interested in creating your own Everyday Examples?
Click here to read more about E³s and to download the E³s toolkit.
You can also read through the resources below to get started:
- Creating Everyday Examples - the short story (2 pages)
- Creating Everyday Examples - the long story with examples and exercises
To figure out which examples will be most relevant to your students, read:
Share "Create Your Own" resources and inspire fellow faculty members to make their own examples.
Read these papers and presentations on E³s to learn more about why you should use them in your classroom
Additional Resources to Share
Below are additional share-able resources you can use to encourage other instructors at your institution to use E³s in their classrooms.
Set up a screening of these videos at your next department meeting to show faculty members and administrators at your school why E³s work!