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Using Technology to Support Learning in Mechanics

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Anna K. T. Howard, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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2012 and 2019 [5].This paper will describe the philosophical and practical questions which arose in adoptingDELTA’s gamification module for use in Engineering Statics at NC State. Each of the questionsbelow could be answered in very different ways in different situations with different instructors;Every solution has pros and cons. This paper states the philosophical questions we agonized overand describes the solutions the team adopted for this version of Statics. Any similar project mayhave different answers to these questions but will likely encounter the need to answer them oneway or the other. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Annual

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Using Technology to Support Learning in Mechanics

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Ning Fang, Utah State University

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. Davishahl, L. Singleton, and W. H. Goodridge, “Do they understand your language? Assess their fluency with vector representations,” In Proceedings of 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL, USA, June 16- 19, 2019.[7] P. Barniol and G. Zavala, “Force, velocity, and work: The effects of different contexts on students’ understanding of vector concepts using isomorphic problems,” Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 020115-1-020115-15, 2014.[8] R. D. Knight, “Vector knowledge of beginning physics students,” Physics Teacher, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 74-78, 1995.[9] K. J. Shryock, A. R. Srinivasa, and J. E. Froyd, “Assessing first-year calculus

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MASS: Mastery, Assessment and Success of Students

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Liza Boyle, Humboldt State University; Jason Patrick Marcus Reid, Humboldt State University

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Diversity

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hours that were transformed into study sessions onstudents’ homework and exam grades. At a medium sized (4000-8000 undergraduate students),public, primarily undergraduate, hispanic serving 4-year institution, hour-long study sessions wereheld once per week the evening before homework was due for both a dynamics course and athermodynamics course. The courses and study sessions were led by the same instructor. The studysessions were voluntary and did not directly influence course grades, but attendance records showthat on average 17% of students attended on any given week. Data were collected on study sessionattendance, homework grades, midterm grades on the three midterm exams, gender, ethnicity, andPell grant status, in Fall 2019 (Dynamics and

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Engaging the Online Classroom

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Phillip Cornwell, United States Air Force Academy

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in 2000 and the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustee’s Outstanding Scholar Award in 2001. He was one of the developers of the Rose-Hulman Sophomore Engineering Curriculum, the Dynamics Concept Inventory, and he is a co-author of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, by Beer, Johnston, Cornwell, and Self. In 2019 Dr. Cornwell received the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of ASEE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Interactive Videos and “In-class” Activities in a Flipped, Remote Dynamics ClassAbstractFlipped classes are relatively common in the engineering education

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Hands-On in the Online Classroom

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Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Matthew Parsons Fuentes, Everett Community College

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, Chicago, IL, 2006.[5] J. C. Bruhl, J. L. Klosky and J. P. Hanus, "Let's Break Stuff! A Refit of the Mechanics Sequence of Courses to Inspire Student Inquiry," in Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, OH, 2017.[6] E. Davishahl, R. Pearce, T. R. Haskell and K. J. Clarks, "Statics Modeling Kit: Hands-On Learning in the Flipped Classroom," in 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018.[7] T. L. Nilsson and L. Doyle, "Pushing and Shoving: Improving Student Understanding of Support Reactions with Hands-on Demonstrations," in Proceedings of the 126th Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, Tampa, Florida, 2019.[8] E. Davishahl, T. Haskell and L. Singleton, "Feel the Force

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Building Success in the Online Classroom

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Hayden K. Richards, US Air Force Academy; Phillip Cornwell, United States Air Force Academy

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structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000 and the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustee’s Outstanding Scholar Award in 2001. He was one of the developers of the Rose-Hulman Sophomore Engineering Curriculum, the Dynamics Concept Inventory, and he is a co-author of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, by Beer, Johnston, Cornwell, and Self. In 2019 Dr. Cornwell received the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of ASEE. American c Society for

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MASS: Mastery, Assessment and Success of Students

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Brad Gregory Davis, United States Military Academy; Kevin Francis McMullen, United States Military Academy; J. Adam Pegues, United States Military Academy at West Point

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- Your daily dose of mechanics exercises,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2002, pp. 2201–2221, doi: 10.18260/1-2--10984.[6] D. Koban, M. Fukuzawa, R. Slocum, M. Fletcher, and J. Pleuss, “Differential effects of incentivized homework on student achievement in undergraduate mathematics,” Primus, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1–19, 2019, doi: 10.1080/10511970.2018.1530703.[7] R. Wieman and F. Arbaugh, “Making homework more meaningful,” Math. Teach. Middle Sch., vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 160–165, 2014.[8] J. R. Grohs, T. Kinoshita, B. J. Novoselich, and D. B. Knight, “Exploring learner engagement and achievement in large undergraduate engineering mechanics courses,” in ASEE Annual Conference

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Mohammad Shafinul Haque, Angelo State University

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are three lectures and one laboratory session per week. The classroom follows a blendedformat where the students have to come prepared for the class by watching pre-recorded videosand taking a quiz due before class. It begins with reviewing the quiz followed by interactiveproblem-solving. The entire class works as a single group while the instructor asks specificquestions and triggers guided discussion leading to problem-solving.Towards the goal of improved comprehension and retention, a zero-credit laboratory session isintroduced to this course in Fall 2019 at Angelo State University. The lab session was a “self-assessment problem solving” session where students are challenged with a random problem onthe concepts covered in the past week to

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The ABCs of FBDs

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Amir H. Danesh-Yazdi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shraddha Sangelkar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Eric Constans, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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. Danesh-Yazdi, “Good Strategies to Avoid Bad FBDs,” in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, (Tampa, Florida), p. 32877, ASEE Conferences, June 2019.[11] A. Danesh-Yazdi, “The Exploded View: A Simple and Intuitive Approach to Teaching the Free-body Diagram,” in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, (Columbus, Ohio), p. 28968, ASEE Conferences, June 2017.

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Engaging the Online Classroom

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Matthew M. Barry, University of Pittsburgh; Samantha E. Wismer; Tony Lee Kerzmann, University of Pittsburgh; Lee Allen Dosse, University of Pittsburgh

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engineering roles. He served as the mechanical coordinator for the RMU Engineering Department for six years, and was the Director of Outreach for the Research and Outreach Center in the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. In 2019, Dr. Kerzmann joined the Me- chanical Engineering and Material Science (MEMS) department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the advising coordinator and associate professor in the MEMS department, where he positively engages with numerous mechanical engineering advisees, teaches courses in mechanical engineering and sustainability, and conducts research in energy systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Kerzmann has advised over eighty student projects, some of which have won

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Bringing a Different Perspective

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Andrew R. Sloboda, Bucknell University

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. Widmann, and G. C. Adam, “Increasing Conceptual Understanding and Student Motivation inUndergraduate Dynamics Using Inquiry-Based Learning Activities”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference,New Orleans, LA, 2016.[18] G. L. Gray, F. Costanzo, and M. E. Plesha, Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics 2nd Ed. New York, NY:McGraw-Hill, 2013.[19] M. Boss, Best of Skydiving 2019. Available at: https://youtu.be/ezUWYwg9438?t=44 (Accessed: 19 August2020).[20] A. Sorensen, The Human Slingshot. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_wkQBDDgvI(Accessed: 19 August 2020).[21] P. Heller and M. Hollabaugh, “Teaching problem solving through cooperative grouping. Part 2: Designingproblems and structuring groups”, American Journal of Physics, Vol. 60, No. 7

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Building Success in the Online Classroom

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Jiehong Liao, Florida Gulf Coast University; Galen I. Papkov, Florida Gulf Coast University; Ashraf Badir P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University

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& Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 24-27, 2018.[6] A. Badir, J. Liao, G. I. Papkov, and R. J. O'Neill, “Exam Wrappers, Reflection and Student Performance in Engineering Mechanics – Part II,” in 126th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL, USA, June 15-19, 2019.[7] R. J. O'Neill, A. Badir, G. I. Papkov, and J. Liao, “Work in Progress: A Study of the Effect of Graded Homework in an Engineering Mechanics Course,” in 127th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual, June 22-26, 2020.[8] M. Lieberman, “Introducing a New(-ish) Learning Mode: Blendflex/Hyflex.” Inside Higher Ed

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Engaging the Online Classroom

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Nicolas Ali Libre, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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] Fentiman, A., Siverling, E.A., Perez, R.S., Streveler, R.A., Loui, M., & Douglas, K. (2019). Putting Discussion-Based Engineering Education Courses Online. Proceedings of the 2019 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Tampa, Fla., June 15-19[10] Beebe, R., Vonderwell, S. , and Boboc, M. , (2009), Emerging patterns in transferring assessment practices from F2f to online environments, Electron. J. e-Lerning, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1–12.[11] Schmidt, J., Libre, N.A., (2020) Implementation and Evaluation of Active Learning Techniques: Adaptable Activities for A Variety of Engineering Courses, Proceedings of the 127th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Virtual conference, Virtual

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Using Technology to Support Learning in Mechanics

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Yonghee Lee, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Edward J. Berger, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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two start-up entities: Level 6 Engineering LLC and Next Offset Solutions, Inc.Dr. Edward J. Berger, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Edward Berger is a Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue Univer- sity, joining Purdue in August 2014. He has been teaching mechanics for over 20 years, and has worked extensively on the integration and assessment of specific technology interventions in mechanics classes. He was one of the co-leaders in 2013-2014 of the ASEE Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) for me- chanics educators across the country, as well as a former NSF program officer (2019-2020). His current research focuses on student problem-solving processes and use of worked

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The 'Strengths' of Mechanics

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Casey Daniel Kidd, Louisiana Tech University; Ethan Clark Hilton, Louisiana Tech University

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several years at home, raising his two children. Upon returning to the Ruston area, he rejoined Louisiana Tech University as a graduate student to continue his studies and earn a PhD. As a graduate assistant with the College of Engineering and Science, he is using his design background to design new project kits for the freshmen and sophomore level engineering courses.Dr. Ethan Clark Hilton, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Ethan Hilton is an assistant professor at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA, where he has been since September 2019. He received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a focus in Engineering

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The 'Strengths' of Mechanics

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Gaurav Chauda, Michigan State University; Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University

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Mechanics

. American Society for Engineering Education, 2019. [5] S. Rosser, L. Jacobs, J. Murray, W. Newstetter, and C. Valle, “Intel promoting learning and retention in a statics class,” in American Society for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education, 2009. [6] C. Ramming and J. Phillips, “Improving retention of student understanding by use of hands-on experiments in statics,” in 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2014. [7] L. S. Lee, R. K. Hackett, and H. Estrada, “Evaluation of a flipped classroom in mechanics of materials,” 2015. [8] M. D. Caballero, E. F. Greco, E. R. Murray, K. R. Bujak, M. Jackson Marr, R. Catrambone, M. A. Kohlmyer, and M. F. Schatz, “Comparing large lecture mechanics curricula using

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Bringing a Different Perspective

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Agnes Germaine d'Entremont P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Andrea S. Webb, The University of British Columbia; Sean Maw P.Eng., University of Saskatchewan; Jennifer Kirkey, Douglas College

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MASS: Mastery, Assessment and Success of Students

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Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Edward Fritz Hillman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Gerald Luciano Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Isamarie Vega Morales, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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in Industrial Engineering from UPRM and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Dr. Santiago has over 20 years of experience in academia and has been successful in obtaining funding and publishing for various research projects. She’s also the founder and advisor of the first ASEE student chapter in Puerto Rico. Her research interests include investigating students’ understanding of difficult concepts in engineering sciences, especially for underrepresented populations (Hispanic students). She has studied the effective- ness engineering concept inventories (Statics Concept Inventory - CATS and the Thermal and Transport Concept Inventory - TTCI) for diagnostic assessment and cultural differences among

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The ABCs of FBDs

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Matthew Runyon, Texas A&M University; Vimal Viswanathan, San Jose State University; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

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real-time feedback onhand-drawn free body diagrams for students. The system is driven by novel sketch recognitionalgorithms developed for recognizing and comparing trusses, general shapes, and arrows indiagrams. We have discovered students perform as well as paper homework or other onlinehomework systems which only check the final answer through deployment to five universities with450 students completing homework on the system over the 2018 and 2019 school years. Mechanixhas reduced the amount of manual grading required for instructors in those courses while ensuringstudents can correctly draw the free body diagram. Keywords: FBD, sketch, statics, dynamics, engineering education.IntroductionFree body diagrams are an integral part of