Conference Session

Explorations in Mechanics Pedagogy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology; Luciana R. Barroso, Texas A&M University; David G. Pollock P.E., George Fox University; Jennifer Light, Lewis & Clark College; Adam Lenz, Oregon State University

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Diversity

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Mechanics

MaterialsIntroductionThe work reported in this paper begins with the end of a previous research project. Our earlierwork investigated student understanding of mechanics of materials1–3. After describing howstudents understand this topic, we wanted to move on to developing course materials to helpbuild on students’ existing understanding and address misconceptions. This is not an unusualprogression, and, indeed, our initial research in this area showed us that most course materialsthat are developed from research never achieve broad adoption4. Many engineering educatorsdevelop their own materials, duplicating researchers’ efforts and potentially denying students thebenefit of research-based materials with proven effectiveness. The lack of adoption is a

Conference Session

Dynamics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Michael Wild, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Robert J. Prins, James Madison University

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Mechanics

combined course and a design course (Engineering Design 2). Statics &Dynamics introduces applied mechanics from an engineering standpoint and is the first of fiverequired "engineering science" courses in the curriculum. The statics and dynamics course hasthree class meetings each week and one lab meeting each week. Course labs have been designedto pair with course classroom content and involve activities such as learning to take forcemeasurements with load cells. Engineering Design 2 is the second design course in a two coursesequence (Engineering Design 1 and Engineering Design 2) and introduces students to process-based design in preparation for their capstone sequence.6-10 For the past five years and for theforeseeable future, Engineering