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Paper ID #30704Feel the force! An inquiry-based approach to teaching free-bodydiagrams for rigid body analysisEric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College Eric Davishahl holds an MS degree in mechanical engineering and serves as associate professor and engineering program coordinator at Whatcom Community College. His teaching and research interests include developing, implementing and assessing active learning instructional strategies and auto-graded online homework. Eric has been a member of ASEE since 2001. He currently serves as awards chair for the Pacific Northwest Section and was the recipient of the 2008 Section
quite small.In conclusion, the study indicates that Male URM students and Female non-URM studentsperform as well as their peers in courses organized using the SMART method. Further study iswarranted to determine if targeted interventions will counter the negative effect seen amongFemale URM students, which may be impacted by their significant degree of doubleunderrepresentation (2% of course population).References 1. Ronald C. Averill, Sara Roccabianca and Geoffrey Recktenwald. “A Multi-Instructor Study of Assessment Techniques in Engineering Mechanics Courses.” Conference Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. June 16-19, 2019. Tampa (FL). 2. Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel, Make It
-side comparison of the traditional and blended versions of the staticscourse with regard to standard course evaluation questions that are relevant to course format.Both courses were taught by the same instructor; the traditional format had enrollments of 56 and50 (in Spring 2018 and 2019, respectively) and the blended format had an enrollment of 21. Anyeffects of class size are difficult to determine, because the two traditional sections had similarenrollment. To date we have not had the opportunity to teach a traditional course with a smallenrollment, or a blended course with large enrollment. Table 5 shows that the blended formatscored slightly higher than the traditional format with respect to “Were class meetings profitableand worth
homework. Eric has been a member of ASEE since 2001. He currently serves as awards chair for the Pacific Northwest Section and was the recipient of the 2008 Section Outstanding Teaching Award.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich
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own grading code in the server.py file, whichoverrides the built-in grading implementation described above. Figure 5 shows a vector and itscorresponding bounding box. Note the generous length of the box to allow the placing of thevector with either the head at the origin or the base at the origin. We will introduce more featuresof the built-in grader in the results section.Example questions from coursesThe drawing tool described in this paper was integrated into PrairieLearn in Summer 2019, andinstructors from two different courses (Statics and Strength of Materials) used the tool during theFall 2019 semester. Here we show examples from these courses.Find the centroidsIn the example illustrated in Figure 6, students are asked to mark the
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prevalent in Physics, as Force Concept Inventories(FCI), [1]–[4] and in Statics [5]–[8]. Not many concept inventories have been created to focus on thetopic of Dynamics. Expanding on the success of the FCI, Gray et al. [9] have created and are fine tuning aDynamics Concept Inventory (DCI) test. The test examines 11 different concepts over a 29-questionmultiple choice exam and since its inception, has been analyzed to have “adequate” reliability [10]. Inaddition, there has also been some work to investigate a shortened version of the same DCI [11]. In this study, the DCI was implemented at the very beginning (pre-course) of two Fall Dynamiccourses (in 2018 and 2019) at a public university and then again at the very end of the same course(post
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
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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.Dr. Amir Hossein Danesh Yazdi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Danesh-Yazdi is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology.Dr. Aimee Monique Cloutier, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology American
itdifficult to understand the angles and three-dimensional space on the paper. All the studentsresponded that it was not difficult to understand. It was great to see that the students could notunderstand why it would be a problem for anyone. The students found it so intuitive and easythat they just could not believe that this has been a difficult-to-understand concept in the past.While one could argue that the group used for analysis was small, it must be noted that trailerclasses historically perform poorer than regular classes. In the previous Spring semester (2019),the content was presented without the MBE method to a 7 person trailer class. Only 2 studentscould solve the problem correctly. Given this data, it can be seen that the MBE model
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to come by in many courses. Our main conclusion is that in the absence of allaspects of the MSU implementation, the learning outcome gains may not be achievable.AcknowledgementsThis research was conducted under local IRB protocol number 1907008977. Dr. Erika Mudrakfrom Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit provided valuable assistance with the statisticalanalysis.References [1] R. Averill, G. Recktenwald, and S. Roccabianca, “Effect of Assessment Methods on Performance in Mechanics of Materials,” In ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2018. [2] R. Averill, S. Roccabianca, and G. Recktenwald, “A Multi-Instructor Study of Assessment Techniques in Engineering Mechanics Courses,” In ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019. [3] R
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