Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

, although the forces themselves are labeled and simply ask them to add the directions. Such problems will provide important practice opportunities that focus students on various aspects of proper free body diagram generation that our recent findings have shown students have difficulty with.3. We will, of course, keep adding to our library of problems in order to cover all topics of the course. This will help us expose our students more and more to the InTEL tools, and hopefully positively impact both their grades in the class and overall satisfaction with engineering.We propose that software allows for the possibility of a risk-free environment forexperimentation and practice. We should do our best to capitalize on this and engage