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- Understanding the Student Experience in Mechanics Courses
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Rawan Aqel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Samia Tarannum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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professor and a lab taught by a graduateteaching assistant (GTA) each week. Since the transition to one course, instructors, students, andTAs have noticed otherwise talented students are struggling in the new course. Our overallresearch project focuses on the student experience in this course through the grounded theorymethodology. It aims to provide actionable feedback for GTAs and professors teaching the course,data the college can use to apply widely in engineering courses and provide the groundwork forfuture grants to improve the engineering curricula at this university to improve its access mission.For this work-in-progress paper, the goal is to discuss the results through the lens of one case studyusing the question: What supports and
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- Applications and Computational Tools for Mechanics Education
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Andrew R. Sloboda, Bucknell University; Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Wodin-Schwartz P.E., Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Paper ID #41518Impacts of a Free-body Diagram Mobile App on Content Mastery and Women’sSelf-EfficacyDr. Andrew R. Sloboda, Bucknell University Andrew Sloboda is an Assistant Professor at Bucknell University where he teaches a variety of mechanics- based courses. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of nonlinear dynamics and how context impacts student learning.Dr. Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kimberly LeChasseur is a researcher and evaluator with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She holds a dual appointment with the Center for Project-Based Learning and the Morgan Teaching and
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- Digital Methods in Mechanics: Teaching with Digital Tools
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Andrew R. Sloboda, Bucknell University; Sarah Wodin-Schwartz, P.E., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jennifer deWinter, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Introduction to Mechatronics for which she received thDr. Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kimberly LeChasseur is a researcher and evaluator with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She holds a dual appointment with the Center for Project-Based Learning and the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center. She holds a PhD in Educational LeadershipJennifer deWinter, Illinois Institute of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023WIP Toward a Free-Body Diagram MobileApplicationAbstractNo skill is more important for a student of mechanics than the ability to draw a complete andaccurate free-body diagram (FBD). A good FBD facilitates proper accounting of forces whenwriting the
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- Keeping It Real: Real World Examples and Systems Thinking
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Kathryn Mary Rupe, Western Washington University; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Lee Singleton, Whatcom Community College; Rebecca S. Borowski
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Learn Statics ConceptsAbstractThis paper describes the results from an ongoing project where hands-on models and associatedactivities are integrated throughout an undergraduate statics course with the goal of deepeningstudents’ conceptual understanding, scaffolding spatial skills, and therefore developingrepresentational competence with foundational concepts such as vectors, forces, moments, andfree-body diagrams. Representational competence refers to the fluency with which a subjectexpert can move between different representations of a concept (e.g. mathematical, symbolic,graphical, 2D vs. 3D, pictorial) as appropriate for communication, reasoning, and problemsolving.This study sought to identify the characteristics
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- Learning Mechanics through Visual and Tactile Modalities
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Sarira Motaref, University of Connecticut
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problems step by step. Each class is 50 minutes long, and it meetsthree times a week. Class time includes a brief lecture from the instructor about the day's topicand related real-world examples, followed by a session where students solve problems.In the summer of 2020, the Mechanics of Materials course was chosen to undergo a redesign aspart of the "INCLUDE, Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for EngineeringInnovation" research project. This project was supported by the Engineering Education Centersof the National Science Foundation. Its goal was to revolutionize engineering education andfoster an inclusive environment that supports learners with neurodiversity. While universaldesign principles can make courses accessible to everyone
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- Will This Be on the Mechanics Test? Concept Inventories and Understanding Exams
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Jean Carlos Batista Abreu, Elizabethtown College; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Dominic J. Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College; Kurt M. Degoede, Elizabethtown College; Anna K. T. Howard, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Azize Akcayoglu; Hadas Ritz, Cornell University; William A. Kitch, Angelo State University
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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 University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted