Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE

Amount

$399,695.00

Award Date

7/07/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Instructors of undergraduate engineering courses have long been perplexed by the fact that students often struggle to solve problems that differ only superficially from ones they have already solved. For example, rotating the diagram for a statics problem