Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Mikesell, Ohio Northern University; John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University

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Mechanics

, intelligent vehicles, entrepreneur- ship, and education. Page 22.1387.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Teaching Dynamics with a Design ProjectIntroductionFor over a decade, Dynamics students at Ohio Northern University (ONU) have been required tocomplete a design project. This project intentionally incorporates several key principles from thelist of those covered in the course. All students are required to submit a project, which includes aproblem description, sketches of several design concepts with a clear decision process forselecting the optimal design, detailed

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Andrew D. Rosenthal, Rowan University; Patrick C. Leung, Rowan University, Undergraduate Student; Alexander Vincent Redfield, Rowan University

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Mechanics

AC 2011-462: USING AN ORTHOPAEDIC BIOMECHANICS PROJECTTO REINFORCE SOLID MECHANICS PRINCIPLESJennifer Kadlowec, Rowan UniversityAndrew D. Rosenthal, Rowan UniversityPatrick C. Leung, Rowan University, Undergraduate StudentAlexander Vincent Redfield, Rowan University Page 22.1608.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An orthopaedic biomechanics project to reinforce mechanics principlesAbstractA team of junior and senior students investigated the mechanics of an interlocked IM rod andtibial Sawbone construct associated with increasing cortical comminution as part of research

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean Q. Lewis, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Mechanics

AC 2011-1028: INTRODUCTION OF A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE USINGA TEAM PROJECT IN A STRENGTH OF MATERIALS COURSEDean Q. Lewis, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Dean Lewis has been a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College for five years teaching courses in design, mechanics, and mechanical engineering. His research interests include attachment design for plastic parts and engineering education.Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Mary Lynn Brannon, Instructional Support Specialist at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at the Pennsylvania State University, has a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph J. Rencis, University of Arkansas; Hartley T. Grandin Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Mechanics

. Rencis is a fellow of ASME and ASEE. He received a B.S. from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1980, a M.S. from Northwestern University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. V-mail: 479-575-3386; E-mail: jjrencis@uark.edu.Hartley Theodore Grandin, Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professor Emeritus, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Page 22.987.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Just-in-Time Approach to Integrate a Design Project into Mechanics of MaterialsAbstractThis paper presents a just-in-time approach

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Mechanics

regarding drop heights and the inflationpressures of professional basketballs. Finally, the impact of the project on student learning isdiscussed.2. ExperimentsThree sets of experiments are presented: drop-ball experiments, inflation-pressure experimentsand duration-of impact experiments. A drop-ball experiment is one in which a ball is releasedfrom rest from a given height (drop height) above a rigid surface; it is allowed to strike thesurface of the court, and the height to which the ball rebounds is measured. Drop-ballexperiments measure rebound heights and compare them to the corresponding drop heights;inflation-pressure experiments measure the effect of the inflation pressure of a basketball on itsrebound height; and duration-of impact

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

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Mechanics

automatically engage or releaseselected constraints at the instant the students’ equations were satisfied. In the end, achieving Page 22.717.6goals within the game required brains rather than super-human reflexes.Preliminary ResultsIn the Fall of 2010, all 39 students who took the engineering dynamics course at NIU describedthe final game-based project, as “very challenging.” Nonetheless, all but two of the students wereable to successfully complete the challenge and write a report providing sufficient technicaldetail to give me confidence that they understood the necessary dynamics to complete the game’stask.As a more objective measure of student

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Brose, Hamburg University of Technology; Christian H. Kautz, Hamburg University of Technology

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Mechanics

AC 2011-847: IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING STUDENT DIFFICUL-TIES IN ENGINEERING STATICSAndrea Brose, Hamburg University of Technology Andrea Brose earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1999 to 2008 she was in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA where she taught undergraduate math, led and developed the mathematics teaching assistant and faculty training program, and contributed to other aspects of academic administration. Since 2009, she is involved in a project on ”Active Learning in Engineering Education” at Hamburg University of Technology.Christian H. Kautz, Hamburg University of Technology Christian H. Kautz received his doctorate degree from the University of

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cliff J. Lissenden, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Samia A. Suliman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Roxanne Toto, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Mechanics

) are being employedfor the first time in two courses on statics and strength of materials during the Fall 2010semester. This paper will present details of the development of the tools as well as evaluation ofassessments acquired during use and at the end of the semester. Page 22.1356.2IntroductionThe tools developed for this project are an applied extension of recent work at the LeonhardCenter for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. We seek to apply what waslearned about educational research (related to problem solving, transformational representation,prior knowledge, self-explanations, scaffolding, and worked examples

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University

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Mechanics

, and even the measurementscale.2,4 Preliminary work on this project, completed with Yokomoto, examined students’ abilityto assess their performance in Statics and Engineering Ethics.5 In the case of the preliminarystudy, however, students were asked to rate their performance in Statics prior to taking the finalexam and no other factors were considered. This study indicated that there were mild correla-tions between performance and self-assessment (enough to warrant further study).The present study looks to see if comparing students’ self-assessments to performance acrossmultiple problems shows any more correlation than was found in the one question to oneproblem work of Sarin and Headley.1 The analysis is based upon data collected in the

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Arun R. Srinivasa, Texas A&M University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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Mechanics

Institute of Technology, Madras in 1986 and his Ph. D from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a professor in the mechanical engineering department and serves as a curriculum coordinator for the Freshman engineering program at the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityJefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey E. Froyd is the Director of Faculty Climate and Development at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Statics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Dollar, Miami University; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Paul S. Steif, Carnegie Mellon University

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Mechanics

Ulseth, Itasca Community College Ulseth is an engineering instructor at Itasca Community and Iron Range Engineering. He is the co- developer of both programs. For the past 20 years he has taught physics, statics, dynamics, fluid mechan- ics, and thermodynamics. For the past 10 years Ulseth has worked with a diverse group of engineering educators to develop and prototype a 100% project-based BS Engineering curriculum.Paul S. Steif, Carnegie Mellon University Paul S. Steif is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Sc.B. in engineering from Brown University (1979) and M.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees from Harvard University in applied mechanics. He has been active as a

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Statics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sue Rosser, San Francisco State University; Janet H Murray, Georgia Tech; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence J. Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

in a Statics ClassAbstractWhile difficulties in the Statics course arise for several reasons, our project seeks to address theproblem of context. Our hypothesis is that all students generally, and women and minoritiesparticularly, are more likely to do well in statics when the problems are placed in the context ofreal world usefulness. Towards that end, we have been developing InTEL (Interactive Toolkit forEngineering Education), a computer-based manipulable environment that supports teaching andlearning in statics by mapping images from real-world environments to abstract free-bodydiagrams for 2D and 3D equilibrium problems. To the best of our knowledge, there are very fewonline tools students can use to study 3D equilibrium problems. Yet

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim M. Papadopoulos, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Vincent C. Prantil, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

modeling in an engineering design graphicscourse. Cole (1999)3 articulated a similar strategy to include FEA as part of a philosophy ofintegrating CAD into the Mechanical Engineering Technology curriculum. Ural & Yost (2010)4report developing a freshman level project to investigate the behavior of a SMARTBEAM®, inwhich the FEA and experimental measurements are conducted simultaneously and compared. Ineach of these cases, use of FEA as a practical tool is emphasized, and none appeared to requirestudents to learn the underlying FE theory or to know principles of mechanics of materials apriori. Numerous other examples, not cited here, appear to exist in introductory freshman designcourses.In contrast to the situation with freshman courses

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn P Gross, Villanova University; David W Dinehart, Villanova University; Joseph Robert Yost, Villanova University; Aleksandra Radlinska, Villanova University

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Mechanics

., and Hampton, F.P. (2009), “A Methodology for Undergraduate Curriculum Modification,” Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, TX.4. Mills, J.E. and Treagus, D.F. (2003) “Engineering Education, Is Problem-Based or Project-Based Learning the Answer?” Australian Journal of Engineering Education.5. Perrenet, J., Bouhuijs, P., and Smits, J. (2000) “The Suitability of Problem-Based Learning for Engineering Education: Theory and Practice,” Teaching in Higher Education, Vol. 5. No. 3.6. Mays, T., Bower, K., Settle, K., and Mitchell, B. (2007) “Using Concept-Oriented Example Problems to Improve Student Performacne in a Traditional Dynamics Course,” Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C.J. Egelhoff, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; K.L. Burns, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

) concept inventory research to uncover the underlyingcause of learning difficulty with the content,8 (d) development of active learning strategies foruse in the classroom, (e) project-based tasks for students to learn by doing, (f) peerteaching/learning and a (g) development of a more clearly articulated problem-solving approachhas been proposed specifically for Mechanics of Materials to improve student learning9. Among our personal efforts to improve learning of Mechanics of Materials, we observedthat students often miss the global connections of the many topics in the course, that students get“lost” in the midst of problem solutions, and that students have difficulty storing their knowledgein their memories. All too often, we have known