Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M. Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University; Clifford Whitcomb, Naval Postgraduate School

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

the Mechanical Engineering Departmentfaculty. The book “An Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” by Wickert and Lewis [27] isused as the course textbook and the typical sequence of topics covered in the class is as follows: • The mechanical engineering profession • Engineering ethics • The mechanical design process • General technical problem-solving approach • Unit systems and conversions • Significant digits • Dimensional consistency • Estimation in engineering • Force vectors • Force resultants • Moment of a force • Static equilibrium • Elementary solid mechanics concepts (such as normal stress and normal strain in uniaxial loading, shear stress in simple connections, and Hooke’s