Conference Session

Innovations in Solid Mechanics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

enhancedlearning and teaching strategies in engineering technology education. More than ever, theeducational advance is leaning towards meeting the demands of industrial world. EngineeringTechnology curricula needs to adjust to novel technologies by enabling students to acquiremeaningful and relevant practices. Laboratory activities should be incorporated into dry-lecturedcourses, being vital to ET programs, since they are ultimately enhancing the understandingprocess, leading towards developing experience-led engineering technology degree. Laboratoryactivities are the main promoters of creativity and critical thinking, a place where studentsdevelop, practice and improve the required skills, and a place where theory meets the real-likescenarios.One way to

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, p.343.9 Steif P. and Dollár, A. 2003. A New Approach to Teaching and Learning Statics. Proceedingsof the American Society for Engineering Education 2003 Annual Conference and Exposition,June 2003, Nashville TN.10 Williams, R. and Howard, W. 2007. A Versatile and Economical Apparatus for Experiments inStatics. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2007 Annual Conferenceand Exposition, June 2007. Honolulu, HI.11 O’Neill, R., Geiger, R. C., Csavina, K. and Ondroff, C. 2007. Making Statics Dynamic:Combining lecture and laboratory into an interdisciplinary, problem-based, active learningenvironment. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2007 AnnualConference and

Conference Session

Evaluation of Teaching Methods for Mechanics Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

AC 2012-3221: INVESTIGATION OF PROPORTIONAL AND NON-PROPORTIONALLOADINGS USING MOHR’S CIRCLEProf. Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University Somnath Chattopadhyay is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga. He teaches mechanics, design, and materials, and his current research emphasis is on fatigue crack intiation in metallic materials. He has authored a text on pressure vessel design and serves as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology Page 25.859.1 c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn P. Gross, Villanova University; David W. Dinehart, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

effort in recent years focused on implementing newtechniques to the teaching of engineering mechanics. This work has included combiningtraditional statics topics in a heavily design oriented backdrop (Russell 7, Condoor 8, Klosky etal. 9), focusing on application to real artifacts (Seif and Dollar 10), and combining statics conceptswith those from mechanics of solids and machine design (Chaphalkar 11). Recent effortsdocument successes with utilizing an inverted classroom (Papadopoulos et al.12) and otherinnovative pedagogies. The goal of improving educational outcomes via a highly interactiveclassroom has been shown to be successful in formats where lectures and laboratories arecombined and problem-based active learning techniques are

Conference Session

Innovations in Solid Mechanics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Birdsong, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Professor at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in the Department of Mechanical Engineering teaching dynamics, vibrations and con- trols. He is involved in several undergraduate and master’s level multidisciplinary projects and interested in engineering education research. Page 25.1419.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 USING AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY IN A SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECT FOR UNDERGRADUATE DYNAMICSAbstractAutomotive safety was used as a service-learning, overarching term-long theme in anundergraduate Engineering Dynamics course. The service