Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jaehoon Seong, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Peter A. Dashner, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Angela C. Shih, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

strong mathematical background, a basic understanding of industrialapplications, and effective problem-solving skills. At California State Polytechnic University,Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), Vector Dynamics is a bottleneck course due to a high number offailures and repeats, hindering many students from advancing in their engineering curricula andresulting in a high attrition rate.Based on past teaching experience, students often have difficulty visualizing the abstractconcepts discussed in Vector Dynamics. Students also struggle with relating those abstractconcepts to familiar situations, leading to failure in understanding the underlying physicalprinciples taught in the subject. Compounding these issues is the ambitious syllabus for VectorDynamics

Conference Session

New Teaching Pedagogies: Methods and Assessments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan B. Swithenbank, US Coast Guard Academy; Thomas William DeNucci, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics

Lon- don, CT. He holds a PhD in Ship Design from the Technical Univeristy of Delft, Delft, the Netherlands. He is an active duty member of the U.S. Coast Guard and has previously served aboard a USCG HEALY (Polar Icebreaker) and has also served as port engineer for USCG suface assets in the Pacific Northwest. He holds a tenured military faculty position at the Coast Guard Academy and teaches courses in Ship Design, Marine Engineering, Dynamics and Statics. Page 24.1319.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Flipping a Newtonian Dynamics Classroom