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Teacher's Corner

Designing a First Experiment: A Project for Design of Experiment Courses

Pages 338-342 | Received 01 Jan 1996, Published online: 22 Mar 2012
 

Abstract

A project suitable for use as a first and last assignment given in an introductory experimental design course is outlined, and its implementation discussed. Phase 1 of the project is designed to be given at the beginning of a first course in experimental design and involves designing an experiment within instructor-specified parameters based initially on intuition and common sense. Phase 2, at the conclusion of the course, represents the final assignment of the course and encourages the student to critique their first design, suggest a “new and improved” design based on their newly acquired knowledge, and finally conduct an analysis of computer generated data (here using MINITAB, although choice of package is flexible) from an actual run of their experiment.

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