Introducing Machine Learning to First-year Undergraduate Engineering Students Through an Authentic and Active Learning Labware

This innovative practice work in progress paper presents our pilot experiment of teaching machine learning to first-year multidisciplinary undergraduate engineering students using an authentic and active learning tool, which consists of a public Google site repository and a course project. The preliminary evaluation we conducted by pre-post survey shows user experiences and effectiveness of this teaching/learning tool. Analysis of the evaluation results will be used to guide us for further development of the tool.