Conference Session

Mechanics, Hands-on Demo - Show & Tell!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward J. Berger, University of Virginia

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Mechanics

Paper ID #7260Initial Development of the Engineering Genome Project–an Engineering On-tology with Multimedia Resources for Teaching and Learning EngineeringMechanicsDr. Edward J. Berger, University of Virginia Ed Berger is currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. He is also Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He teaches mostly sophomore mechanics courses. Page 23.753.1

Conference Session

What's New in the Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Mechanics

factor to early attrition rates in engineering students2.Unfortunately, addressing real world applications in engineering courses is typically left untilupper division, discipline specific classes. Contextual learning is often left out of engineeringcore course such as Statics and Mechanics of Materials, despite both the significance of thematerial taught in these courses to upper division classes and the pedagogical advantages tousing such an approach in engaging multiple types of student learning styles3. Labs and casestudies can help in developing context; this paper presents a project that can easily be adaptedinto any mechanics class, regardless of discipline or lab component, that helps students topersonalize the material.In order to

Conference Session

Simple Classroom Demonstrations for Mechanics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger; Kristine Csavina; Robert O'Neill

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Mechanics

with models used in class.Endeavoring to improve student visualization, and building off of the idea that teaching aconcept will further strengthen ones understanding of the material, the engineering mechanicsfaculty incorporated a student project to create a K’NEX model which demonstrates kinematicprinciples presented in class. Students not only had to design a physical model, but also had toinclude a worksheet with a problem statement, an associated diagram of the model, and acomplete solution page.The original intent of the project was to deepen the students understanding and to reinforce theconcepts of kinematic motions – Translation, Rotation, Rotation About a Fixed Axis, andGeneral Plane Motion. After two semesters of refining the

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez ; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez ; Genock Portela-Gauthier, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Mechanics

the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics, biomechanics, appro- priate technology, engineering ethics, and engineering education. He is PI of two NSF sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. Pa- padopoulos is currently the Program Chair Elect of the ASEE Mechanics Division and serves on numerous committees at UPRM that relate to undergraduate and graduate education.Dr. Aidsa I. Santiago-Rom´an, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez CampusDr. Genock Portela-Gauthier, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Conference Session

Anything New in Dynamics?

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron Newberry, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts

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Mechanics

Investigating Impulse Loading using Model Rocketr yAbstractA project is presented that uses experimentally determined thrust data for a commercial modelrocket engine to investigate impulse loading relations. Certain model rocket engines approachimpulse loading; completely burning in a fraction of a second. Using a fixture instrumented withstrain gages and a high-speed National Instruments data acquisition system, the studentsexperimentally collect the thrust verses time response of several Estes model rocket engines. Thestudents formulate two flight models for a rocket of known mass loaded with the specific enginebeing investigated. The first model uses the measured thrust data directly as input to the governingdifferential equation for the rocket. The

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

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Mechanics

as a full class and in small groups, andproblem- and project-based learning experiences (PBL). When the full class cooperates insolving a problem, all students get exposed to the different possible solution strategies fortackling a problem. Small groups allow students who may be hesitant to ask questions in front ofthe entire class an opportunity to ask questions of their peers or even of the instructor in a moreprivate setting. The use of PBL reinforces the concept that multiple strategies for approaching aproblem are possible. Students are asked to produce a specific outcome, such as the developmentof a reduced order model, but they are not told what method or approach to use for this process.At the end, the students must evaluate the

Conference Session

Bringing a Different Perspective

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Agnes Germaine d'Entremont P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Andrea S. Webb, The University of British Columbia; Sean Maw P.Eng., University of Saskatchewan; Jennifer Kirkey, Douglas College

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Mechanics

problem development.ContextsThe three instructors on this project work in different contexts and covered different content todate. We include mechanics instructors for first-year at a transfer college (Douglas College, Site1B, particle dynamics questions), first-year at a mid-sized public research-intensive university(University of Saskatchewan, Site 2, statics questions), and second-year at a large publicresearch-intensive university (the University of British Columbia, Site 1A, rigid body dynamicsquestions) in two separate regions (1 and 2). The present collaboration began with projects thathad started at each site separately. Site 1A started a project to develop online homework andvideo worked problems for second-year mechanics. Site 1B

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hirohito Kobayashi, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

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Mechanics

created, as part ofthe software termed Virtual Mechanics Laboratory (VML). We have created VML as a unifiedvideo motion and deformation analysis tool that can be used in both dynamics and mechanics ofmaterial course projects. In the project with VML mechanics of material module, first, studentswill capture a digital video image of a plate-shaped elastic object subjected to a plane-stressloading with a high-resolution digital camera that is widely available nowadays. Subsequentlyin the computer laboratory, students will select target region of interest (ROI) to “measure” thepixel displacement and material deformation within the ROI, using the digital motion trackingalgorithm termed “Digital Image Correlation (DIC)” algorithm built in the VML

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University

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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

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Sarah Wodin-Schwartz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Mechanics

with an engineering education that is explicitly socio-technical in nature. As such, inaddition to the work presented here about contextualizing Statics, other ongoing engineeringwork at USD includes introducing social relevance to heat transfer [12], reimagining energy asan interdisciplinary and decolonized concept [13], integrating social justice into engineeringcurricula [14], and teaching social responsibility in circuits and materials science [15], [16],among others [17]. At Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where author SWS works, giving students theopportunity to tackle real world problems began nearly 50 years ago when the curriculum wasrevolutionized to focus on project based learning (PBL) [18]. This curriculum shift

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Constans, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Karl Dyer, Rowan University; Shraddha Sangelkar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

sines and cosines. 2. A vector loop equation is written around the linkage, and then half-angle tangent identities are used to solve for the two unknown angles.Two widely-used mechanical design textbooks use method 2, whose derivation is lengthy andwhose final results permit no simple geometric interpretation. Method 1 has a much simplerderivation but is difficult to implement in software owing to a lack of four-quadrant functions forsine and cosine.With this in mind, we have developed a more efficient method for obtaining the position solutionfor the fourbar linkage that is well-suited to educational settings as well as for designoptimization: the projection method. Because the final formulas have an elegant geometricinterpretation, we

Conference Session

Learning Environments for Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Brian Dittenber, LeTourneau University; Allyson Jo Barlow, Oregon State University

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Mechanics

Education, 2017 Bringing Experiential Learning into the Online Classroom: A Mechanics of Materials Course Case StudyAbstractAn online Mechanics of Materials course offered in the summer of 2016 by LeTourneauUniversity was designed to include several unique components intended to facilitate experientiallearning in a manner more typically found in some traditional classroom-delivery courses. Inaddition to video lecture and example materials, course innovations aimed at achieving theseoutcomes included: a small project involving students' evaluation of mechanics principles intheir surroundings with a peer review, an analysis of a case of historical importance in which afailure related to mechanics of materials occurred

Conference Session

Anything New in Dynamics?

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Charles Birdsong, California Polytechnic State University; Eileen Rossman, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanics

AC 2008-1437: A NEW SPIN ON TEACHING 3D KINEMATICS ANDGYROSCOPIC MOTIONBrian Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian Self has been an Associate Professor at Cal Poly for the last two years. Before that, he taught at the Air Force Academy for seven years. He is the ASEE Campus Rep and the Zone IV Chair-Elect. Besides his pedagogical research, Dr Self is actively involved in aerospace physiology and biomechanics research. He has worked extensively to involve undergraduates in his research, taking students to present at national and international conferences. By involving students in solving ill-defined projects and problems that don’t have a “correct answer”, Dr Self

Conference Session

Dynamics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hirohito Kobayashi, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Mechanics

Laboratory (VML), was developed based on Matlab® Graphic-User-Interface. VML was created as the kinematic information measurement tool to be used ina class project environment. In the project with VML, first, the student will capture a digitalvideo image of an object subjected to the complex motion with a high frame rate digital camerathat is widely available today. As the second step, the student will evaluate the kinematics,position and angle, of the object with digital motion tracking algorithm within VML. Thekinematic information deduced from the motion tracking can be exported as the data inMicrosoft® Excel format. The data can then be used to evaluate other kinematic informationsuch as velocity, acceleration, angular velocity, and angular

Conference Session

Teaching & Learning Statics and Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Raich, Lafayette College

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Mechanics

courses, while stillproviding students with the opportunity to learn the FE modeling and analysis skills needed to besuccessful in subsequent courses and in design project work. The change also increased theexposure students have to computational engineering tools, which is a stated desire of ABET andour departmental external advisory boards.This project studied the effectiveness of the approach taken to integrate FE modeling andanalysis content into four sections of Strength of Materials. The sections had studentenrollments of 20, 22, 30 and 18 and were taught by two different faculty members. The addedcontent was constructed with the following objectives: a) improve the student’s understanding ofspecific stress, strain and deformation topics

Conference Session

Internet Delivery of Mechanics Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Carroll; Hong Sheng, University of Missouri

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Mechanics

student learning and understanding. It should be better than a traditional lecture. 2. The new technology should be easy to use. Learning to use the technology should not create excessive work for the faculty member. Class preparation should take approximately the same amount of time as for a traditional lecture. 3. The new technology should be reliable and convenient. The author is currently using a technological method for teaching engineering mechanicscourses that meets the criteria listed above. A key component to the method is that the facultymember projects complex figures on the board and then uses chalk (or markers or a smart boardor a tablet) to modify the figures. This teaching method blends the traditional lecture

Conference Session

Mechanics Classroom Demonstrations

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josué Njock-Libii, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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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

Conference Session

Curriculum and Instruction in Engineering Mechanics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javad Baqersad P.E., Kettering University; Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Arnaldo Mazzei, Kettering University; Azadeh Sheidaei, Iowa State University; Basem Alzahabi, Alghurair University

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Mechanics

Aerospace Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and MSc and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University. Before joining Iowa State University, she was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University in Michigan. Sheidaei’s main research area is ”multiscale characterization and computational modeling of advanced material systems such as polymer reinforced composites”. During her graduate study at MSU (2007-2015), she worked at Composite Vehicle Research Center (CVRC) where she worked on numerous research and industrial projects. Those span over the areas of structural integrity of composites, develop- ment of constitutive models and computational tools to

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Hildebrand, Lake Superior State University; Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University; Steve Bryan, Continental Automotive Systems

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Mechanics

energyproduction, incorportating energy-related examples throughout fundamental MechanicalEngineering courses, to complement those in the focused technical electives. The idea ofimplementing a pedagogical concept throughout the curriculum, what is referred to asduration here, is documented elsewhere as well; for instance, Mokhtar et.al 3 describe thisprinciple in terms of open-ended student projects, which are implemented right from first-year courses all the way through to graduation. Yim et.al.4, in designing a new program,emphasize exposure to engineering as early as the freshman year, when students areotherwise typically in math and science courses, as a tool to retain students in engineering.The concept of making common use of electives between

Conference Session

Measuring Learning in Statics & Dynamics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger G. Hadgraft, University of Technology Sydney; David Lowe, The University of Sydney; Justine Lawson

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Mechanics

Paper ID #15694Enhancing Mechanics Education through Shared Assessment DesignProf. Roger G. Hadgraft, University of Technology Sydney Roger Hadgraft BE(Hons), MEngSc, DipCompSc, PhD, FIEAust is Professor of Engineering and IT Pro- fessional Practice in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney. He is a civil engineer with 25 years involvement in leading change in engineering education, with a particular focus on problem/project-based learning (PBL), at RMIT, Monash, Melbourne and Central Queensland Universities. Roger is an ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) Discipline Scholar in

Conference Session

Statics & Strength of Materials - A nice couple

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa Ivette Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Genock Portela-Gauthier, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Arturo Ponce, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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Mechanics

projects. The average gradeson the projects are less varied by discipline, possibly due to the fact that the projects werecompleted in groups of 3-4 in which disciplines were mixed. However, a number of importanttrends were observed, including:  many students (at least 50%) resisted using the spreadsheet and used in minimally; we were surprised by the number of students who chose to do a number of “side calculations” manually and then enter these numbers into the spreadsheet, rather than performing them directly in the spreadsheet; students who did this were at a general disadvantage to answer some of the more conceptual questions that required a variation in parameters to illustrate trends in behavior.  a

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Priya Goeser, Armstrong Atlantic State University

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Mechanics

. Themain objective of the Computational Modeling course is to study the fundamentals of numericalmethods and to develop computer programs for solving engineering problems using MATLAB.Examples of numerical methods include solving roots of equations, linear algebraic equations,integration and differentiation. Assessment of this effort was accomplished with supplementarycourse evaluation questions given at the end of the semester. This paper will discuss the resultsof the student projects and evaluations, and the authors’ experiences with this intradisciplinaryteaching effort.IntroductionThis paper presents efforts over two semesters to integrate course materials between twosophomore level engineering courses. The two courses, Statics (ENGR 2001

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Mechanics

regarding drop heights and the inflationpressures of professional basketballs. Finally, the impact of the project on student learning isdiscussed.2. ExperimentsThree sets of experiments are presented: drop-ball experiments, inflation-pressure experimentsand duration-of impact experiments. A drop-ball experiment is one in which a ball is releasedfrom rest from a given height (drop height) above a rigid surface; it is allowed to strike thesurface of the court, and the height to which the ball rebounds is measured. Drop-ballexperiments measure rebound heights and compare them to the corresponding drop heights;inflation-pressure experiments measure the effect of the inflation pressure of a basketball on itsrebound height; and duration-of impact

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanics

principlesby analyzing a catapult for a medieval exhibit at a British Museum. These projects areintroduced before the material is covered, serving as a form of inductive learning and hopefullymotivating the material. Finally, we have included conceptual questions during each class periodto help the students think more deeply about the material (rather than just plugging numbers intoequations). Assessment will be presented using three metrics: final exam averages, scores on theDynamics Concept Inventory, and student attitudinal surveys.IntroductionLandmark publications such as How People Learn and Educating the Engineer of 2020 (alongwith numerous other publications) have suggested that we need to change the traditional way ofeducating engineering

Conference Session

Assessment & Grading in Mechanics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania; Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanics

senior design, while serving as advisor to many undergraduate research projects. For the last six years, Scott has been at York College of Pennsylvania where his concentration is on undergraduate education in mechanical engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Frequency of Exams and Student Performance in a Solid Mechanics CourseThis study compares several methods of examinations given in both an introductory solidmechanics course and a follow-up machine component design course. To help determine the bestfrequency of evaluating student performance, several examination schedules are compared foreach course. For the introductory solid

Conference Session

Building Success in the Online Classroom

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hayden K. Richards, US Air Force Academy; Phillip Cornwell, United States Air Force Academy

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Mechanics

many papers written on team formation. Some of these papers focuson team formation for senior design [2, 3], while others focus on comparing different teamformation strategies, such as comparing self-selected teams versus instructor-selected teams [2-5]. In Ref. [2], the teams were half self-selected and the other half were assigned by theinstructor using the Jung Typology Test, which is based on Carl Jung and Isabel Myers-Briggs’typological approach to personality. Ref. [3] considered different approaches for assigningteams in a capstone design course. One approach had faculty forming teams based on studentsurveys of project interests, skills, time availability, and team preferences. The alternativemethod enabled students to form their own

Conference Session

Addressing the Human Dimension in Teaching Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Reese P.E., LeTourneau University

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Mechanics

grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for athree year project to enhance education by introducing elements of wheelchair research intovarious undergraduate courses. The goal was to utilize research instrumentation anddemonstrations to not only teach technical aspects of a course, but to increase student motivationto learn those aspects. Toward that end, the demonstrations were directly related to the humanneed of mobility, thus enhancing motivation with an empathetic aspect. By showing how theorypresented in mechanics courses could be used to develop better wheelchairs to help people, itwas hoped that students would be more motivated to learn. Therefore, the primary intent was notto determine if the students learned a technical point, but if the

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in Mechanics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Amie Baisley, University of Florida

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Mechanics

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Novel Approach to Mastery-Based Assessment in Sophomore-Level Mechanics CoursesAbstractThe Mechanics Project is a reimagination of the foundational mechanics courses that engineeringstudents generally take in their sophomore year. The courses associated with the project (statics,dynamics, and deformable solids) were converted to a student-centered engaged learningenvironment with students spending most of their class time in a flipped recitation environment.The pedagogical transformation was complemented with the implementation of a novelassessment system based upon redundant demonstration of mastery of the course objectives. Theassessment system

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

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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

Conference Session

Applications of Technology in Mechanics Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Simon Jones, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Takashi Kawano, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

then compare their findings to analyticalresults. The lab has a final project involving an experimental modal test and the creation of afinite element model of a structure of the students’ choosing. Students are required to proposeexplanations for the differences in the results from the test and the finite element model.Assessment results show that students have developed a much more sophisticated understandingof analysis and testing as a result of these experiences, and by the end of the course, they useappropriate technical terminology when discussing the differences between test and analyticalresults.BackgroundAccording to the National Research Council report How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience,and School [1], one aspect of effective