Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Ruhala, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-1069: FOUR FREE-VIBRATION LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS USINGTWO LUMPED MASS APPARATUSES WITH RESEARCH CALIBERACCELEROMETERS AND ANALYZERRichard Ruhala, Southern Polytechnic State University Richard Ruhala earned his BSME from Michigan State in 1991 and his PhD in Acoustics from The Pennsylvania State University in 1999. He has 3 years industrial experience at General Motors and 3 years at Lucent Technologies. He was an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Department at the University of Southern Indiana before joining the faculty at Southern Polytechnic State University in 2010 as an Associate Professor, where he also serves as director for their new mechanical engineering program. He has

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shelley, United States Air Force

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Mechanics

AC 2010-832: USING THE DYNAMICS CONCEPTS INVENTORY AS ACONTINUOUS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT METRIC FOR IMPROVINGSTUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMESJ. Shelley, United States Air Force Page 15.1342.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using the Dynamics Concepts Inventory as a Continuous Process Improvement Metric for Improving Student Learning OutcomesAbstract Having objective metrics to assess student assimilation of the concepts on whichthe study of Dynamics is based makes it possible to implement Continuous ProcessImprovement on the teaching of this junior-level dynamics class. Over seven semesters,the Dynamics Concepts Inventory was

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University; Andrew Walters, Mississippi State University; Anthony Vizzini, Western Michigan University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-610: EMPORIUM BASED REDESIGN OF STATICS: AN INNOVATIVEAPPROACH TO ENHANCE LEARNING AND REDUCE COSTSMasoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University Masoud Rais-Rohani is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He teaches courses in aircraft structures, structural mechanics, and design optimization, and his primary research activities are in the area of structural and multidisciplinary design optimization.Andrew Walters, Mississippi State University Andrew Walters is an instructor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. His primary area of teaching is undergraduate engineering mechanics courses such as Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials. Prior to joining

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-1367: DYNAMICS BUZZWORD BINGO:ACTIVE/COLLABORATIVE/INDUCTIVE LEARNING, MODEL ELICITINGACTIVITIES, AND CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDINGBrian Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian Self is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly in 2006, he taught for seven years at the United States Air Force Academy and worked for four years in the Air Force Research Laboratories. Research interests include active learning and engineering education, spatial disorientation, rehabilitation engineering, sports biomechanics, and aerospace physiology. He worked on a team that

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Page 15.1331.3ball [31. A frame-by-frame study of the pictures of bouncing tennis balls obtained using high-speedcameras (2000 frames per second) in our laboratory demonstrated that this process consists of fourseparate and distinct phases: initial contact, deformation of the original shape, restitution andrecovery of the shape of the ball, and separation and takeoff.Phase 1: Contact. Initial contact between the ball and the surface occurs at one point.Phase 2: Deformation. Although the lowest point on the ball has been forced to stop movingduring initial contact, other parts of the ball continue to move downward. Consequently, a periodof continued contact is observed during which the ball is in contact with the surface over an areathat

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Rockaway, University of Louisville; D. Joseph Hagerty, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

engineering student through Engineering Mechanics: Statics and many other derivativecourses. Unfortunately the teaching methods used to convey the information also have beenrelatively fixed. A quick review of available textbooks indicates the same rote presentationsequence (some books are on their 12th edition). In contrast, the QEP mandated overt, intentionalpresentation of critical thinking. Could critical thinking be included overtly in a well established,fundamental, almost archaic engineering course? Yes many ways of requiring critical analysis Page 15.1007.4and evaluation can be adapted to statics with only minor tweaking of the course