Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia F. Mead, Norfolk State University; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech; Candace A. Cobb, Norfolk State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

of the American Workforce.2. NAE. (2006). Enhancing the Community college Pathway Into Engineering Careers. Washington: National Academies Press.3. Hestenes D, Wells M, Swackhamer G 1992 Force Concept Inventory. The Physics Teacher 30: 141-16.4. NAS. (2000). How People Learn. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.5. Evans, D.L., Gray, G.L., Krause, S., Martin, J., Midkiff, C., Notaros, B. M. Pavelich, M., Rancour, D., Reed- Rhoads, T., Steif, P., Streveler, R., & Wage, K. (2003, November). Progress on concept inventory assessment tools. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, CO

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Baha Jassemnejad, University of Central Oklahoma; Wei Siang Pee, University of Central Oklahoma; Kevin Rada; Montell Jermaine Wright, University of Central Oklahoma, Robotics Research; Kaitlin Rose Foran, University of Central Oklahoma; Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma

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Engineering Physics & Physics

to provide anrobotics research project their first semester at theuniversity. Through a sequence of focused learning avenue for incoming freshman with STEM (Science,modules, each consisting of a lecture presentation Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) majorsfollowed immediately by correlated hands-on activities, to become involved in research early in theirstudents learn essential concepts, and develop basic academic career. The students must apply and belaboratory skills in electrical engineering and accepted into a research group of their choice. Themicrocontroller programming. After establishing the research group targeted by the Summer Bridge classfoundational knowledge

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Ludwigsen, Kettering University; Janet Brelin-Fornari, Kettering University; Joseph Neal, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

helps me understand situations in myeveryday life.” (experts agree). Students’ rate of favorable responses is presented in Figure 2. Page 22.389.7Figure 1: A-D plot as in Ref. 3, including their published data. (Experts are college teachersinvolved in Workshop Physics; USIPOT is one of the US International Physics Olympiad Teams,and UMCP pre are students entering the University of Maryland calculus-based physics course.)DiscussionThe goals of the curriculum development project were ambitious in the context of a two hourweekly lab. By incorporating a recurring theme of crash safety and vehicle testing, the projectaimed to improve the perception of students that introductory physics is relevant to a career inengineering, in an area that