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Learning Mechanics Through Experimentation

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Ethan Hilton, Louisiana Tech University

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Mechanics

Paper ID #31168Work in Progress: Developing Mechanics of Materials Skills through anIntegrated Prototyping ProjectDr. Ethan Hilton, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Ethan Hilton is an assistant professor at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA, where he has been since September 2019. He received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a focus in Engineering Design Methodology and Engineering Education. As a member of the Integrated STEM Education Research Center (ISERC) at LaTech, Ethan’s primary research area

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Making Mechanics Courses Fun and More Effective

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Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Todd Haskell, Western Washington University; Lee W. Singleton, Whatcom Community College

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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

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Grading and Feedback Models in Mechanics

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Petros Sideris, Texas A&M University; Maria Koliou, Texas A&M University

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Paper ID #29366The Role of Timely Actionable Student Feedback in Improving Instructionand Student Learning in Engineering CoursesDr. Petros Sideris, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University Dr. Sideris is an Assistant Professor at the Zachry Department of Civil and Environment Engineering at Texas A&M University, since 2017. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Dr. Sideris was an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also served as the Director of the Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory. He received his Master’s (2008) and Ph.D. (2012) in Civil

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Assessment Strategies in Mechanics

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Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; Tamara Bush, Michigan State University; Ron Averill, Michigan State University

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. The rubric, exam schedule, appeals process, and exam structure all remainedunchanged.It should be mentioned that the current course structure for dynamics at MSU necessitated thatexams be given during class periods. This means that exams are 50-minutes long. In thisversion of the course a total of 10 class periods out of 40 were reserved for examinations. Thismeans that in-class instruction is reduced by 20% over a traditional course. To achieve this, thelecture material was modified to be more efficient and worked example problems were providedto students outside of class. Additionally, a strong focus was given to the development of freebody diagrams. Thus, free body diagrams were considered an integral component to obtaining aconceptual

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Concept Inventories in Mechanics

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Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Google scholar, has been referenced about 50 times, and the update in2005 [3] has been referenced about 107 times. From the engineering education literature, mostreferences to the DCI can be put in four main categories: 1. Assessment of curriculum modifications or innovations 2. Assessing the efficacy of course modifications. The modifications were usually introduced into a course to improve conceptual understanding. 3. Pointing out the limitations of the DCI or in the context of developing an abbreviated dynamics concept inventory. 4. Referenced in the paper but not discussed or used. These papers usually reference the DCI as one of many concept inventories.An example of a paper that used the DCI to assess a curriculum

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Assessment Strategies in Mechanics

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Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; Michele J. Grimm, Michigan State University; Ron Averill, Michigan State University; Sara Roccabianca, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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pedagogy for problem based courses. He created and co-teaches a multi-year integrated system design (ISD) project for mechanical engineering students. He is a mentor to mechanical engineering graduate teaching fellows and actively champions the adoption and use of teaching technologies.Dr. Michele J. Grimm, Michigan State University Michele J. Grimm is the Wielenga Creative Engineering Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In addition to her scientific research, Dr. Grimm has spent a large part of her career focused on curriculum development and enhancement of student learning in engineering. She served on the faculty of Wayne State University for 25 years, where she developed and implemented both undergraduate

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Teaching Statics: What and How?

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David Allen Evenhouse, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Charles Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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offered as a part of this initiative was Statics. Statics (called ME270:Basic Mechanics I at PUWL) is a core requirement of the ME program and is a prerequisite for anumber of later course offerings related to engineering mechanics. It is often taken during the firstsemester of students’ Sophomore year, making it one of the first formal ME courses taken aftercompleting the integrated First Year Engineering (FYE) curriculum offered to all PUWLFreshmen engineering students. In order to offer Statics as a study abroad option during May of2019, the instructional team for the course needed to quickly redesign the existing Staticscurriculum to fit an accelerated schedule within an international context. More specifically, thecourse schedule was limited

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Learning Mechanics Through Experimentation

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Kathleen Bieryla, University of Portland; Nikolene A. Schulz P.E., University of Portland; Rebecca D. Levison, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland

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University of Portland.References1. Newberry, B. Experimentally determining mass moment properties. 2008 Annual Conference& Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania2. Raviv, D., & Barb, D. R. A visual, intuitive, and engaging approach to explaining the center ofgravity concept in statics. 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida3. Kaul, S., & Sitaram, P. Curriculum design of statics and dynamics: An integrated scaffoldingand hands-on approach. 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia4. Brake, N. A., & Adam, F. A. Integrating a 3-D printer and a truss optimization project instatics. 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana5. Mayar, K. Re-design of engineering mechanics

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Making Mechanics Courses Fun and More Effective

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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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-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

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Teaching Statics: What and How?

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

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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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Hybrid and Online Teaching of Mechanics

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

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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