Conference Session

Keeping It Real: Real World Examples and Systems Thinking

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley J. Earle, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania; Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Wilkerson, P.E., York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

percentage of students described the design, manufacture, and analysis/testing ofmachinery as the defining elements of mechanical engineering, many also highlighted the goalof engineering to solve problems to improve society in a safe and ethical way. While notexplicit, their descriptions focus on machinery and do not clearly indicate the thermal-fluids orthe electronic elements of mechanical engineering. This general idea that they will use solidmechanics knowledge more than fluid mechanics, thermal sciences, or electronic integration orcontrol is also shown in what sub-discipline they expect to use most and least (Fig. 1B). Almostall our students (88%) anticipate using solid mechanics knowledge more than any otherdiscipline in their future careers

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics: Modes and Methods

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

instrument. The platform now has a bank of about 300 concept questions for Staticsand is very effective to elicit student written responses, drive conversation, and peer more deeplyinto student reasoning (Papadopoulos et al., 2022). However, even though there is a high rate ofstudent response, the corresponding grade weight was no more than 5% of the grade. In thiscontext, I have not yet established firm evidence that experience with concept questionsimproves performance on procedural test questions, although this has been previously argued(Koretsky et al., 2016)During the last decade or so, I have also begun to “contextualize” problems in both homeworkand exam settings to address issues of ethics, social justice and sustainability (Leydens &