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Using Automotive Safety in a Service-learning Project for Undergraduate Dynamics

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

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The Design Competition as a Tool for Teaching Statics

Conference Session: Mechanics Concepts II
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

AC 2012-4322: THE DESIGN COMPETITION AS A TOOL FOR TEACH-ING STATICSDr. Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University Page 25.1283.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Design Competition as a Tool for Teaching Statics.1. IntroductionThis paper describes ongoing efforts at Syracuse University to re-engineer the traditionalstatics course. This course forms part of a larger NSF funded project aimed at increasinginnovation and creativity in engineering curricula. The principal aim of the overallproject is to find strategies to foster and reward creativity in engineering students.This study examines a design

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Applying Dynamics to the Bouncing of Game Balls: Experimental Investigation of the Relationship Between the Duration of a Linear Impulse During an Impact and the Energy Dissipated.

Conference Session: Mechanics Classroom Demonstrations
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Josué Njock-Libii, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Applying Dynamics to the bouncing of game balls: experimental investigation of the relationship between the duration of a linear impulse and the energy dissipated during impact.AbstractThis paper discusses experiments done as a class assignment in a Dynamics course in order toinvestigate the relation between the duration of a linear impulse and the energy dissipated duringimpact. After analysis had been presented in lecture on the relation between work and energy andon the connection between linear impulse and linear momentum, a series of distinct but relatedprojects was assigned as hands-on applications of the results of analysis.In project one, it was shown that

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Revamping Delta Design for Introductory Mechanics

Conference Session: Technology in Mechanics Education
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford Univeristy; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

process as it is a technical one, and that compromise is a key part of creating asuccessful design. To play the game, four students, each with a different role, form a design teamand are tasked with developing a structure that meets the different sets of constraints posed byeach role. The four roles are the structural engineer, thermal engineer, project manager, andarchitect. Each team must design a residence in an imaginary world which they build with redand blue triangles on a diamond grid. The red and blue tiles mean different things to each player.For example, the thermal engineer sees the red triangles as heat-producing elements, while theproject manager sees them as a representation of cost. Each player also has different constraintsthat

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Embedding Laboratory Activities in “Applied Mechanics” Course

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

Chrysler Truck Manufacturing Company in Turkey as a project engineer, he received dual M.S. degrees in engineering management and mechanical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T), formerly the University of Missouri, Rolla. He worked for Toyota Motor Corporation as a quality assurance engineer for two years and lived in Toyota City, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MS&T in 1999, while he worked as a quality engi- neer for Lumbee Enterprises in St. Louis, Mo. His first teaching position was at the Architectural and Manufacturing Sciences Department of Western Kentucky University. He was a faculty member at Trine University. He is currently teaching in

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A Physical Model for the Dot Product: Does it Improve Learning of Vector Mechanics?

Conference Session: Mechanics Concepts I
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Luciano Fleischfresser, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná; Mariana Nascimento Casarin, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná; Evandro Eizo Roncaglia Yabushita, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

physical model, the way it was usedto energize learning is presented. We discuss how errors made by students on test day can berelated to gender and to being in class when the model was shown.MethodShames provides the motivation for the physical model14. Its vector algebra chapter presents amature treatment emphasizing 3-D vector representations. Figure 1 is from the originalproblem. It asks one to calculate the projection of the 500 N force along the diagonal from Bto A. As emphasized by Roberts, the two important quantities that students must becomefamiliar with in an introductory statics course are distance (length) and force15. There is nodifficulty in visualizing length as a position or a displacement vector. However, a force vectoris more

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Preliminary Results on Using a Video Game in Teaching Dynamics

Conference Session: Mechanics Classroom Demonstrations
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Brianno D. Coller, Northern Illinois University
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

something we had tentatively calledDynaMonkey. It was similar to a three dimensional version of Pong, very different fromSpumone.Although the control group did not have a video game to use for learning, students were requiredto complete two semi-structured, project-based assignments. The first project was a dynamicanalysis of the Vancouver luge track where a 21 year old Olympic athlete had recently lost hislife. In the second assignment, students had to derive equations of motion for an electric cart(four rigid bodies connected by axle bearings and a chain/sprocket) and integrate the equationswith Matlab. Through intuition-guided iteration, students selected cart parameters they thoughtwould give them the best chances of winning a class-wide

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Excellence in Engineering through a Jeopardy game

Conference Session: Mechanics Classroom Demonstrations
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Genevieve Gagnon Ph.D., University of Saint Thomas
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations during 2004-‐2005 Accreditation Cycle,” Baltimore MD www.abet.org , 2003. 4-‐ National Academy of Engineering, Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE), http://www.nae.edu/NAE, 1999. 5-‐ The Millennium Project, Media Union, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, “High Education in the new Century: Themes, Challenges and Opportunities”, Nagoya, Japan, July 2002. 6-‐ National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), The College Student Report. “The NSSE 2000 Report: National Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice”, 2000. 7-‐ Jeopardy game classroom material in Mechanics of

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Online, Interactive, 3D Finite Element Stress Analysis Using High-performance Computing (HPC) Cluster

Conference Session: Statics and Strength of Materials
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Zachary Vick, University of Oklahoma; Kurt C. Gramoll, University of Oklahoma
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

based machines with enoughcomputational power locally to complete the required calculations. Dhondt and Wittig haveprovided a free online demo of their FEM program CalculiX athttp://www.onlinefeasolver.com/demo.php11. However this is just an online demo of a programthat was written to be locally installed (freely) on a Linux machine. A full version of theWindows equivalent can be purchased under the name bConverged14.II. Operation of the 3D Solids ToolThis 3D solids tool was created using the Flash programming language, ActionScript, because ofits advantages in creating a graphical user interface. The compiled form of a Flash project iseasily embedded into a webpage, ensuring widespread accessibility. Flash also allows access toscripts on a

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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Additional Class Contact Time on Student Performance in Statics

Conference Session: Mechanics Concepts I
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: John Burkhardt Ph.D., U.S. Naval Academy
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

in statics is a strong predictor of success in follow-onengineering courses and retention in the engineering majors. As a student’s introduction to therigors of engineering problem solving, statics creates a number of well-documented difficultiesfor many studentsv (Goldfinch, T., A. Carew, T. McCarthy, (2008)). A variety of strategies and interventions to improve retention of at-risk students andstudents in at-risk classes have been studied with active learning, project based learning, peerteaching and tutoring among them. Many of the techniques considered, however, have beendocumented in the literature as having mixed results. Most notable are conflicting studies thatindicate that traditional tutoring, problem solving sessions and

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Prerequisite Courses and Retentivity as a Challenge

Conference Session: Mechanics Concepts II
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Robert E. Efimba P.E., Howard University; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University
Tagged Divisions: Mechanics

applications and engineering mechanics education.Dr. Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University Tori Rhoulac Smith began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University in 2003. In this position, she served as an academic and research Advisor, instructor for a variety of undergraduate and graduate engineering courses, and researcher on traffic engineering and engineering education projects. Feeling an overwhelming desire to work more directly on identifying and meeting the needs of increased recruitment, retention, and achievement of traditionally-underrepresented minority students in engineering disciplines, she shifted her career focus and now serves as an instructor and undergraduate