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Teaching Statics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sue Rosser, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janet Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

AC 2010-2422: INTEL: PRESENTING REALISTIC EXERCISES IN A STATICSCLASSChristine Valle, Georgia Institute of TechnologySue Rosser, Georgia Institute of TechnologyJanet Murray, Georgia Institute of TechnologyWendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of TechnologyLaurence Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology Page 15.786.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 InTEL: Presenting Realistic Exercises in a Statics ClassAbstractStatics, a foundational engineering course, introduces a unique approach to problem solving,which is characterized by model-based reasoning. The major intended course outcome is forstudents to develop the ability to create and utilize

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Teaching Dynamics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sherrill Biggers, Clemson University; Marisa Orr, Clemson University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-845: INTEGRATED DYNAMICS AND STATICS FOR FIRST SEMESTERSOPHOMORES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGSherrill Biggers, Clemson University Sherrill B. Biggers is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. He has over 29 years of experience in teaching engineering mechanics, including statics, dynamics, and strength of materials at two universities. His technical research is in the computational mechanics and optimal design of advanced composite structures. He developed advanced structural mechanics design methods in the aerospace industry for over 10 years. Recently he has also contributed to research being conducted in engineering education. He received teaching awards at

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Teaching Statics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Aidsa Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Mechanics

AC 2010-1868: IMPLEMENTING AN INVERTED CLASSROOM MODEL INENGINEERING STATICS: INITIAL RESULTSChristopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Christopher Papadopoulos is a faculty member in the Department of General Engineerng at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, where he coordinates the Engineering Mechanics Committee. His research interests include nonlinear structural mechanics, biomechanics, engineering education, and engineering ethics, and he serves as secretary of the ASEE Mechanics Division. He holds BS degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University. He was

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shaobo Huang, Utah State University; Ning Fang, Utah State University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-190: REGRESSION MODELS FOR PREDICTING STUDENT ACADEMICPERFORMANCE IN AN ENGINEERING DYNAMICS COURSEShaobo Huang, Utah State University Shaobo Huang is a PhD in Engineering Education student in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education in the College of Engineering at Utah State University (USU). With BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering, her area of interest focuses on the predictive modeling of student academic performance and problem solving skills in engineering courses. She is a recipient of the USU Presidential Fellowship.Ning Fang, Utah State University Ning Fang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education in the

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-1696: ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE LEARNING INA CIVIL ENGINEERING GRADUATE VIBRATIONS COURSELuciana Barroso, Texas A&M University Page 15.120.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Active Learning Strategies to Enhance Learning in a Civil Engineering Graduate Vibrations CourseAbstractThis paper presents a first-semester graduate level course in structural dynamics that utilizesactive learning as a mechanism to address 1) higher expectations of learning, 2) varying levels oracademic background and preparation, and 3) diverse cultural backgrounds. Active learningstrategies used include cooperative learning, both

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Teaching Dynamics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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; Exposition.Hake, R. R. (1998) “Interactive-Engagement Versus Traditional Methods: A Six-Thousand-Student Survey ofMechanics Test Data for Introductory Physics Courses,” American Journal of Physics, 66, pp. 64–74.Novak, G. M, E. T. Patterson, A. Gavrin, and W. Christian (1999). Just-in-Time Teaching: Blending Activelearning with Web Technology. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.Prince, M. (2004) Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research. Journal of Engineering EducationSelf, B., Miller, R., Kean, A., Moore, T, Ogletree, T. and Schreiber, F. (2008), "Important Student Misconceptionsin Mechanics and Thermal Science: Identification Using Model-Eliciting Activities." ASEE/IEEE Frontiers inEducation Conference.Streveler, R, Litzinger, T., Miller

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Teaching Dynamics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Shelley, United States Air Force

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Mechanics

AC 2010-832: USING THE DYNAMICS CONCEPTS INVENTORY AS ACONTINUOUS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT METRIC FOR IMPROVINGSTUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMESJ. Shelley, United States Air Force Page 15.1342.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using the Dynamics Concepts Inventory as a Continuous Process Improvement Metric for Improving Student Learning OutcomesAbstract Having objective metrics to assess student assimilation of the concepts on whichthe study of Dynamics is based makes it possible to implement Continuous ProcessImprovement on the teaching of this junior-level dynamics class. Over seven semesters,the Dynamics Concepts Inventory was

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Teaching Statics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lucas Passmore, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University; Stephen Turns, Pennsylvania State University; Peggy Van Meter, Pennsylvania State University; Carla Firetto, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

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AC 2010-900: SOURCES OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES WITH COUPLES ANDMOMENTS IN STATICSLucas Passmore, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College Lucas Passmore is an Instructor in Engineering at Penn State Altoona. He completed his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics in 2009. He teaches introductory engineering courses and fundamental engineering mechanics courses. His primary research is in the semiconductor device physics field, and he is currently working on the incorporation of a design element to engineering technology strength of materials course.Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University Tom Litzinger is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Anderson, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-749: M-MODEL: AN ONLINE TOOL FOR PROMOTING STUDENTPROBLEM SOLVING UTILIZING MENTAL MODELSEdward Anderson, Texas Tech University Edward Anderson is a Texas Tech University, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor. He has also served as the Ray Butler Distinguished Educator and received the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teacher and the Texas Piper Professor awards. He has written two engineering textbooks and numerous textbook websites. His research focuses on application of technology to learning and how to measure and promote higher-order cognitions using technology. During 2009/10, he served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air force

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Simple Classroom Demonstrations for Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Kiefer, Michigan State University

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Mechanics

engineering concepts through examples from their own livesis a powerful way to help engage students. It helped to deepen student understanding of coursematerial, and got students to start asking questions about other applications of engineeringprinciples rather than just reproducing calculations. It also helped to get students more involvedin lectures and helped turn the lectures into active learning exercises. This experience has led theinstructor to reexamine some of the examples that are used in other classes to see how they couldbetter connect to students.5. Bibliography1. Dean, A., Anthony, B. & Vahala, L. Addressing Student Retention in Engineering and Engineering Technology Through the Use of a Multidisciplinary Freshman Course. A

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ganapathy Narayanan, The University of Toledo

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itseffects on the system is very important and such quantification is done throughthe use of the concepts and methods of probability and statistics. Also, under theconditions of uncertainty, the design and planning of engineering systems involverisks, which in turn involve probability and associated consequences. Theimportance of the quantification of uncertainty on such calculated risks isdocumented by the National Research Council2, US Department of Energy3,NASA4, and NIH5.In the age of computers, and high technology, and Uncertainty RiskQuantification initiatives by major US national agencies, it seems appropriate touse of random values of materials properties, and known random external appliedloads in mechanical analyses. Three examples1 of

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Teaching Statics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University; Andrew Walters, Mississippi State University; Anthony Vizzini, Western Michigan University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-610: EMPORIUM BASED REDESIGN OF STATICS: AN INNOVATIVEAPPROACH TO ENHANCE LEARNING AND REDUCE COSTSMasoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University Masoud Rais-Rohani is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He teaches courses in aircraft structures, structural mechanics, and design optimization, and his primary research activities are in the area of structural and multidisciplinary design optimization.Andrew Walters, Mississippi State University Andrew Walters is an instructor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. His primary area of teaching is undergraduate engineering mechanics courses such as Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials. Prior to joining

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Martin Knecht, South Texas College; Taylor Martin, Univ of Texas at Austin; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Joan Walker, Long Island University; Araceli Ortiz, Tufts University

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for courses inStatics and Dynamics. This effort is a component of a funded College Cost Reduction andAccess Act (CCRAA) grant from the Department of Education, and focuses on student retentionand development of adaptive expertise. Studies have shown that minority science, technology,engineering, and math (STEM) students leave STEM undergraduate fields in part due to lack ofreal world connections to their classroom learning experiences. Furthermore, in STEM fields theconventional approach is to teach for efficiency first and for innovation only in the latter years ofthe curriculum. This focus on efficiency first can actually stifle attempts at innovation in latercourses. Our response to these issues is to change the way we teach. CBI, a form

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

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Mechanics

AC 2010-2131: USING FILL-IN WORKSHEETS IN MECHANICS CLASSESRungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Dr. Rungun Nathan is an assistant professor in the division of engineering at Penn State Berks from the fall of 2007. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics. His research interests are in the areas of ornithopters, mechatronics, robotics, mems, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology. He has active research in the area of lift in Porous medium with Dr. Qianhong Wu (Villanova

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Teaching Dynamics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Ruhala, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-1069: FOUR FREE-VIBRATION LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS USINGTWO LUMPED MASS APPARATUSES WITH RESEARCH CALIBERACCELEROMETERS AND ANALYZERRichard Ruhala, Southern Polytechnic State University Richard Ruhala earned his BSME from Michigan State in 1991 and his PhD in Acoustics from The Pennsylvania State University in 1999. He has 3 years industrial experience at General Motors and 3 years at Lucent Technologies. He was an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Department at the University of Southern Indiana before joining the faculty at Southern Polytechnic State University in 2010 as an Associate Professor, where he also serves as director for their new mechanical engineering program. He has

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Teaching Statics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

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Mechanics

USING A DIGITAL DASHBOARD FOR LEARNING TO BLEND INTERACTIVE, WEB-BASED COURSEWARE INTO AN INSTRUCTOR-LED STATICS COURSE1. BACKGROUND1.1 Need for Improving Assessment-Feedback LoopsIn response to an increasing appreciation that instruction should be learner-centered [1], variouslearner-centered instructional approaches have been pursued. These have included bothleveraging computer technology in effective ways and establishing more interactive classrooms.Still, many engineering subjects continue to be taught in a traditional, top-down fashion, withone-way communication from the lecturer, and textbook homework problems that are solvedoutside of class, on which delayed and minimal useful feedback, if any, is

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Teaching Dynamics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benson Tongue, University of California, Berkeley; Daniel Kawano, University of California, Berkeley

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Mechanics

thechanging nature of our technological world. Cars that are computer controlled are not ones thatlend themselves to “tinkering.” Likewise, the microelectronics that runs through most all moderntechnological artifacts present our nascent engineers with little of the opportunity for hands-onlearning that so typified the pre-college experience of their counterparts in years past.On the other hand, students are very comfortable with videos and, hopefully, reasonably welloriented toward simulation/animation software. Their inclinations can be used [1], in a properlydesigned course, to enhance learning [2], [3], [4].What the authors have tried to do is add a new component to what have traditionally been pureanalysis courses as a way of addressing this

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ing-Chang Jong, University of Arkansas

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Mechanics

AC 2010-88: ENRICHING STUDENTS’ STUDY OF BEAM REACTIONS ANDDEFLECTIONS: FROM SINGULARITY FUNCTIONS TO METHOD OF MODELFORMULASIng-Chang Jong, University of Arkansas Ing-Chang Jong serves as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He received a BSCE in 1961 from the National Taiwan University, an MSCE in 1963 from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1965 from Northwestern University. He and Dr. Bruce G. Rogers coauthored the textbook Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics, Oxford University Press (1991). Professor Jong was Chair of the Mechanics Division, ASEE, 1996-97, and received the Archie Higdon

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Mechanics Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Somnath Chattopadhyay; Rajesh Kitey

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Mechanics

numerical methods werecompared with the corresponding closed form solutions.INTRODUCTIONThis study constitutes a laboratory component of the strength of materials courses taught to bothengineering and engineering technology students. It is important that engineering students learnthe detrimental effects of stress raisers such as notches, holes, and sharp corners in machinemembers. Such discontinuities can cause a large rise in stress above the nominal value. Thistopic is introduced in the strength of materials course in the design of a stepped shaft withkeyways subjected to bending, torsion, as well as axial loads. The nominal axial stress, thebending stress, and the shear stress due to torsion in the shaft are each multiplied by thecorresponding

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Teaching Dynamics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Mechanics

consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and been awarded two UNESCO Fellowships. He has taught mechanics and related subjects at many institutions of higher learning: The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Eastern Michigan University, Western Wyoming College, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique, Yaoundé, Cameroon, and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He has been investigating the strategies that engineering students use to learn engineering subjects for many years. He is an active member of two research groups in his current department: The Undergraduate Projects Lab and the Energy Systems Lab. This paper came out of work done with his