Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shelley, United States Air Force

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

enabled troubleshooting of bimodal grade distributions in classeswith poorly prepared students. Employing the DCI as a CPI tool has created anenvironment in which distractions from the dynamics material, like the broadcastenvironment and textbook selection, can be minimized while effective demonstrationsand class discussions can be developed. This paper discusses the results of employingthe DCI as a CPI tool along with changes made to curriculum delivery. The nextincrement of changes to content delivery is also discussed.Introduction Continuous Process Improvement, CPI, is an established industry practice withthe goals of reducing variability in a product, eliminating non-value added steps fromprocesses, and improving customer

Conference Session

Making Mechanics Courses Fun and More Effective

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Md Rashedul Hasan Sarker, University of Indianapolis; Najmus Saqib, University of Indianapolis; George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis; Megan Hammond, University of Indianapolis; Jared Hilt; James T. Emery II, University of Indianapolis

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Mechanics

-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development. in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. 2012.17. Ricco, G., How Course Size Effects Grades: Sizeness and the Exploration of the Multiple‐ Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development through Hierarchal Linear Models, in American Society for Engineering Education. 2015.18. Dollar, A. and P.S. Steif, An Interactive, Cognitively Informed, Web-Based Statics Course*. IJEE, 2008.19. Valle, C.R., S, et al., NTEL: Presenting Online 3D Exercises in a Statics Class. 2011.20. Lesko, J., et al., Hands-on-Statics Integration into an Engineering Mechanics-Statics Course: Development and Scaling

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghodrat Karami, North Dakota State University; Robert Pieri, North Dakota State University

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Mechanics

AC 2007-1702: ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND ELEMENTARYMULTI-SCALE MECHANICSGhodrat Karami, North Dakota State University Dr. Karami is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at North Dakota State University.Robert Pieri, North Dakota State University Page 12.625.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Engineering Education and Elementary Multiscale MechanicsAbstractClassical Mechanics addresses the foundation of engineering education at conventional scales.To include mechanics at smaller scales and especially nanoscience as part of engineeringeducation

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Rezaei, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Kyu-Jung Kim, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Angela Shih, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Mechanics

students’understanding of the basic concepts in engineering education. By undergoing a rigorous processof validation, engineering concept inventories can provide meaningful primary assessmentthroughout a curriculum or an specific course such as Vector Statics. The effectiveness of thiscourse is measuring by:1. Integrating previously developed and tested Concept Inventory test specifically for Staticsthroughout the course into weekly modules.2. Making the tests available to the students online via Blackboard and having students tocomplete the end-of-weekly-module test after each module has been completed.3. Collecting the student score data from each test scores for each concept and using them toimprove the course.4. Comparing the student test scores on Concept

Conference Session

Dynamics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin, Stout

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

curriculum, for example:instantaneous centers of rotation, damped vibration, or impulsive motion. Each group then builtone stage of what would become a class Rube Goldberg machine under the stipulation that theirstage must demonstrate the assigned topic area. Further, a report was submitted, describing theassigned topic area and how their stage demonstrated that topic area. At the end of the semester,each stage was assembled to build the full Rube Goldberg machine. As such, the student groupshad to communicate with each other to determine how to transition between stages. This aspectwas intended to incorporate an additional layer of communication and collaboration early in theundergraduate engineering curriculum.The use of a Rube Goldberg based

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin - Stout

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

how the integration ofsuch a tool into the course curriculum might affect student performance.For both collection methods, students were asked to produce one original submission on anapproximately per week schedule corresponding with the submission deadlines for their normalhomework assignments. Each original submission was expected to include a photograph or videoand a brief descriptive statement that demonstrated the concepts discussed in that week’s lectures.After the transition to Twitter posts, students were also asked to submit at least two comments onthe posts of their classmates.To facilitate archiving of student Twitter posts related to the class, all posts containing the#mech293 hashtag were collected and analyzed using the Twitter

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William E. Howard, East Carolina University; Odis Hayden Griffin Jr. P.E., East Carolina University; Ihab Ragai, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

throughout the curriculum rather than coverageof the topic in a single course. Brinson et al.3, Zhao4 and Chaphalkar and Blekhman5 report onthe use of FEA in basic (statics and mechanics of materials) mechanics courses. Watkins6presents results from an FEA class that has de-emphasized theory and problem solving with ageneral tool (Excel or MATLAB) and increased usage of a commercial FEA program.Papadopoulos, Papadopoulos, and Prantil7 lay out a strategy for incorporating FEA throughoutthe curriculum, without rigorous coverage of the theory. While there is naturally resistance tointroducing FEA without the theoretical background, Papadopoulos et al. argue that thisresistance needs to be reconsidered: We clearly don’t apply this criterion

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

very limited applied examples. The course suffered from low engagementand enthusiasm on the part of both students and instructors. Students routinely reported thatIntroductory Dynamics was their least-favorite course in the curriculum, and the department faceda constant struggle to persuade faculty to teach the course. Instructors reported that the coursewas a higher-than-normal teaching workload.The instructional reforms undertaken in Introductory Dynamics involved the following keychanges: (1) an active learning discussion section format, including group work activities and afocus on “real-world” applications of the course material; (2) active learning in lectures usingclassroom response systems (using the i>clicker system); (3) online

Conference Session

Teaching Statics: What and How?

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amir H. Danesh-Yazdi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Aimee Monique Cloutier, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000 and the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustee’s Outstanding Scholar Award in 2001. He was one of the developers of the Rose-Hulman Sophomore Engineering Curriculum, the Dynamics Concept Inventory, and he is a co-author of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, by Beer, Johnston, Cornwell, and Self. In 2019 Dr. Cornwell received the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of ASEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020

Conference Session

Internet Delivery of Mechanics Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Gramoll, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

A Web-based Electronic Book (eBook) for Solid MechanicsAbstractThe use of electronic media has been widely recognized as an effective and efficient tool indelivering course materials. Through electronic media, interactive and visual appealing mediasuch as texts, animations, graphics, simulations and sounds can be incorporated in theillustrations of engineering theories and concepts. The motivation of developing such media isto promote students’ interest in engineering education and perhaps have a positive impact on thequality of education. This paper presents an eBook in solid mechanics that is delivered via theweb (www.ecourses.ou.edu). The online eBook is intended to cover materials for a typicalintroductory solid mechanics (i.e

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

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

helped to develop and teach the six course engineering design sequence which represents the spine of the curriculum for the Department of Engineering. The research and teaching interests of Dr. Nagel tend to revolve around engineering design and engineering design education, and in particular, the design conceptualization phase of the design process. He has performed research with the US Army Chemical Corps, General Motors Research and Development Center, and the US Air Force Academy, and he has received grants from the NSF, the EPA, and General Motors Corporation.Dr. Robert J Prins, James Madison University Robert Prins received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2005; he is currently an

Conference Session

Enhancing Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary L. Gray, Pennsylvania State University; Francesco Costanzo, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

. D. M C V EY, and J. M C M ASTERS (1999) “Industry Expectations of New Engineers: A Survey to Assist Curriculum Designers,” Journal of Engineering Education, 88(1), pp. 43–51.4 W ILSON , J. M. (1995) “National Issues in Engineering Education,” in Workshop on Re-Engineering Engineering Education (R. T. Lahey, ed.), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, August 21–22, pp. 5–10.5 G RAY, G. L., F. C OSTANZO, D. E VANS, P. C ORNWELL, B. S ELF, and J. L. L ANE (2005) “The Dynamics Concept Inventory Assessment Test: A Progress Report and Some Results,” in Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper presented in Session No. 3268 of the 2005 American Society

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan, The University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

4initially for a new learner to appreciate the difficult random concepts, but whenthe student comes in touch with randomness in other aspects of life, the studentwould be prepared well to deal with the randomness issue in solving theengineering problem rather than brush it aside, due to ignorance, by not dealingwith randomness in any quantity or with any random analysis.For completeness, an attempt is made to discuss briefly the subject materials thatwould be appropriate as an extension to the Probability and Statistics taught in theundergraduate curriculum. Of course, the author tries to be coherent in thepresentation. More details of these random topics in this paper can be found inmany references2,6-8.This paper discusses first the basic

Conference Session

The 'Strengths' of Mechanics

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gaurav Chauda, Michigan State University; Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

concept. In the engineering curriculum, courses are sequenced intoprerequisite chains of three to five courses per subfield — a design aimed at developing andreinforcing core concepts over time. Knowledge retention of these prerequisite concepts isimportant for the next course. In this project, concept review quizzes were used to identify thegaps and deficiencies in students’ prerequisite knowledge and measure improvement after aconcept review intervention. Two quizzes (pre-intervention and post-intervention) drewinspiration from the standard concept inventories for fundamental concepts and include conceptssuch as Free Body Diagrams, Contact and Reaction Forces, Equilibrium Equations, andCalculation of the Moment. Concept inventories are

Conference Session

Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sridhar Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Lawrence Boyer, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

. • A lack of physical feel due to emphasis on structural problems. This can be attributed to a strong civil engineering influence in the texts.These fundamental disconnects manifest themselves as lower-than-expected abilities in thestudents when applying the concepts to design/analyze real systems in subsequent courses. Theresulting disappointment in engineering educators is well documented and common1,2.II. Literature ReviewMost recent efforts revamp the statics/mechanics curriculum by incorporating advances incomputer/video/web technologies, affording a physical feel for the concepts, and fostering activelearning. Kuznetsov3 developed a software-based teaching aid which reinforces concepts throughan iterative learning process. It was

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Mikesell, Ohio Northern University; John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

project. Unfortunately these students have little engineeringbackground to apply to the solutions. At the other end of their college program, all ONU seniorswill complete an intensive design process as part of their year-long capstone course. Butbuilding skill and experience in the design process, item “c” of the ABET list of criticalengineering program outcomes,6 is best achieved when continually reinforced throughout thecurriculum. Thus the design project in Dynamics, a course currently taken by all engineeringstudents, provides an important bridge of continuity in the heart of the four year curriculum(typically the sophomore year) to keep the design process fresh.Project DescriptionThe Dynamics design project has taken many forms over the

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Teaching of Mechanics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carmen M. Muller-Karger, Florida International University ; Lili Steiner, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Paper ID #29082Dynamics Online Course: A Challenge content delivered with best teachingpractices keeps students engagedDr. Carmen M Muller-Karger, Florida International University Instructor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Florida International University since 2016. With a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, an MSc in Mechanical Engineering in the area of Roto- dynamics from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science in the area of Biomechan- ics from the Central University of Venezuela. Main interest in Simulation on Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanics, Motion Analysis

Conference Session

Statics - They can move at constant velocity!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Michael Patrick Hannigan, University of Colorado - Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

including Dynamics, Mechanics of Solids, Fluids, Thermodynamics, etc.Typically taken in the first semester of the 2nd year of a standard 4-year engineeringundergraduate curriculum, success in Statics is critical for continued success along the pathwayto an engineering degree. As the first technical engineering class students encounter, Statics hasthe potential to make novice students excited and enamored with the engineering problem-solving and analytical process, or conversely students’ experience in Statics can cause them toswitch disciplines or feel discouraged about pursuing engineering. It is a focal class in the Page 23.856.2trajectory of

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials and General Mechanics Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Christiansen, Brigham Young University; Steven Benzley, Brigham Young University; Spencer Guthrie, Brigham Young Univeristy; Gaurab Paudel, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

integral portion of lower division engineering curricula for Civil, Mechanical, andManufacturing Engineering. These courses are crucial in the engineering education process forthese disciplines because they introduce students to the engineering approach in problem solving,provide basic principles that are used in following courses, and let lower division studentsrecognize if they are equipped for an engineering curricula. In addition, many questions for theFundamentals of Engineering exam have their roots in these courses.Providing the proper teaching environment for these courses is a challenge for faculty anddepartment administrations because a) there are numerous students that must be accommodated,b) the students deserve a quality experience to

Conference Session

Potpouri - A Mix

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Paper ID #7494Project-Based Learning: Teaching Engineering Design Not TinkeringDr. Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania Scott Kiefer has spent the past eleven years teaching mechanical engineering at four different institu- tions. As an exemplary teaching specialist in mechanical engineering at Michigan State University, Scott received the Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence, given to one faculty member in the College in En- gineering for outstanding instructional performance. Scott specializes in machine design, vibrations and controls, and mechatronics. He started his career at the University of Puerto

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Amir H Danesh-Yazdi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

, W. L. (1995). Engineering Mechanics: Statics. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.13. Sheppard, S. D., & Tongue, B. H. (2007). Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Equilibrium. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.14. Meriam, J. L., & Kraige, L. G. (2012). Engineering Mechanics (7th ed). New York: J. Wiley.15. Costanzo, F., Plesha, M. E., & Gray, G. L. (2013). Engineering Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics (2nd ed). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.16. Riley, W. F., Sturges, L. D., & Morris, D. H.(2002). Statics and Mechanics of Materials: An Integrated Approach (2nd ed). New York: J. Wiley.17. Pytel, A., Kiusalaas, J. (2015). Engineering Mechanics: Statics (4th edition). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.18. Giancoli