Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Virginia Tech

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Student

use a group Think-Pair-Share15 to increase student-student interaction(during the Pair) and student-teacher interaction (during the Share). For this type of activity,students first think on a topic by themselves, pair with a partner discussing their thoughts todiscover similarities and differences, and finally, share their findings with the entire class.Incorporating informal collaborative moments such as this into a class can have a great effect interms of increased interaction. More formal implementations could involve a multi-week groupassignment with several teacher-team advising sessions. Such projects could include eitherproblem-based or project-based learning assignments16. These implementations would providefor more student-student

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Sozen, Grand Valley State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Use of Various Software Tools in an Alternative Energy Systems CourseAbstractA course about alternative energy systems and applications was developed and has been taughtfor the past four years at Grand Valley State University. The course, which has been taught as afour credit hour technical elective course in engineering, has been offered in various formats,such as simply a four contact hour course and most recently formalized as a three-lecture three-lab-hours format. Invariably though, the course involved case studies and semester projects.These projects have been mostly about feasibility studies on applications of such energyresources to real world problems. Several software tools have been acquired and

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2013 GSW

Authors

Camille A. Issa

, while the US suffers anincreasingly serious decline in the number of engineering graduates and a lack of well-educatedengineers.While until quite recently U.S. engineering firms dominated in global infrastructure projects andthe development of new design and engineering solutions, they are now becoming minorparticipants and are quite often not even invited to propose and bid for important projects. Earlierlast century the US has built structures such as the Empire State Building in fewer than 18 Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering

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2013 GSW

Authors

Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

Saturday Morning Session 1- Student Development of Advanced Commercial Transport AircraftConfigurations Through the Assessment of Past, Present, and Future Technologies Amit Oza, Gary Coleman, Lex Gonzalez, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Paul Czsyz Hypertech Concepts LLC Abstract NASA’s Subsonic Fixed Wing Project has organized its research portfolio into three areas; N+1represents concepts and

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2013 ERC

Authors

Jason Boehm

-the-art nanofabrication tool set  Provides access to emerging, cutting-edge instrumentation being developed by CNST’s multidisciplinary research staffThe NIST Center for Neutron Research(NCNR) is a national resource forresearchers from industry, university andother government agencies.  Currently 28 experiment stations  Hosts more than 2,000 researchers annuallyManufacturing Extension PartnershipOver 1,400 MEP field staff in everystate and Puerto Rico help small andmid-sized U.S. manufacturers:  create and retain jobs  increase profits  save time and moneyMEP clients reported creating &retaining 72,075 jobs in 2009.MEP Project Initiatives:  Buy American Supplier Scouting  Competitive Award Program  E3: Economy, Energy

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2013 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Martin Schmidt; Theresa Kotanchek

AMP Mission StatementThe Advanced Manufacturing Partnership identifies collaborativeopportunities between industry, academia and government thatwill catalyze development and investment in emergingtechnologies, policies, and partnerships with the potential totransform and reinvigorate advanced manufacturing in the U.S. AMP Outcomes 1. Develop a permanent model for evaluating, prioritizing, and recommending federal investments in advanced manufacturing technologies 2. Recommend a set of ‘partnership projects’, focused on advancing high-impact technologies and creating models for collaboration that

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dileepan Joseph P.Eng., University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, and recently Azemi and Pauley 8, present advantages ofintroducing computer programming to engineers through MATLAB, either alone or inconjunction with C or C++. Azemi and Pauley briefly mention the design of simple games, e.g.,tic-tac-toe, but focus on a robotics project and its challenges. That project required teaching ofboth MATLAB and C/C++ and the authors conclude by recommending against it.This work validates changes made, despite strong differences of opinion, in 1st year engineeringto go from procedural C++ with virtual robots (Karel) to MATLAB with game development Page 23.624.2(Gorillas). Moreover, the new course introduces

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liu Junhua, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Yue Zhang, Singapore University and Technology and Design; Justin Ruths, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Diana Moreno, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

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Educational Research and Methods

Innovations in Software Engineering Education: An Experimental Study of Integrating Active Learning and Design-based LearningABSTRACTSignificant advancements have been made in engineering education in recent years. An importantoutcome of these advancements is the integration and extension of fundamental pedagogies as part ofengineering curricula, as well as the need for continued research into the effectiveness of thesepedagogies on students’ learning within engineering knowledge domains. In this paper, we focus on anengineering educational research study in the domain of software engineering. This study considers theimportant research question of the efficacy of traditional lecture-homework-project teaching approachescompared to peer-to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

meanings thatengineers have and developing a model of core engineering concepts requires collectingdata through more long-term and thorough research methods. A graduate student willspend one year working as an intern for a civil engineering design firm to conductethnographic research on engineers’ shared and situated knowledge of fundamental civilengineering concepts. Education Aim: Develop and implement research-based curricular materialssituated in engineering practice. This project will utilize results from specific aims 1and 2 to develop curricular materials, including assessment instruments, for conceptualunderstanding present in engineering practice, aimed at guiding students to thedevelopment of conceptual understandings that are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

research, conducted as part of a NSF CCLI Phase 1 project, determined that studentstypically come into a thermodynamics course with a high expectation of being exposed to realworld content. With a traditional textbook and course format these expectations were not met.However, using early versions of the Engaged in Thermodynamics material the student Page 23.484.2expectations were better met. Initial research also indicated that there was a significant relationbetween final grade and the level of student engagement. The focus of the current work is to 1)expand the material content, 2) promote use of the material at other institutions, and 3) assess

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghulam H. Bham, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Dan Cernusca, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Example web-based screen showing the embedded video for query building.Therefore, the instructor decided to move the GIS laboratory toward the end of the semester bylinking it to the highway design project, the major hands-on activity in the course. This newstructure of the instructional activities was implemented during the last two semesters of theperiod analyzed in this study (Fall 2010 and Spring 2011).Structure and Complexity of Instructional TasksThe structure and complexity of the instructional tasks changed over the implementation cycles.Four major task structure factors that defined the complexity of the instructional tasks throughoutthis study are presented in the following part of this section

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering curriculum, a foundationwill be formed upon which a system for improved communication skill in engineering can bebuilt.Initial InvestigationsThere has been for a long time a concerted effort by a number of practitioners across the countryto develop programs that will help students understand the need to communicate in a manner thatwill benefit careers outside of the English world. The Writing Across the Curriculum movementhas done much to support the need to make faculty and students more conscious of theimportance of communication in life and in the workplace. The Northwest Inland Writing Projectat the University of Idaho, the National Writing Project, and the Red Mountain Writing ProjectScholarly Writing Retreat for University Faculty

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #5684Ancient Structural Failures and Modern Incarnations:Dr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Dr. Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technol- ogy, where she regularly teaches courses in rhetoric, business/technical writing, and ethics. She is also a part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She has been active in ASEE for more than 25 years, serving as a regular conference presenter and moderator. She was OIT’s campus representative for seventeen years and served in various section leadership

Conference Session

Novel Methods of Construction Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca N Macdonald, East Carolina University; Erich Connell, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

competencies. The instructors; an architectand an engineer, purposefully provided minimal direction in order to prevent the projection oftheir professional bias on the students and to gain further insight of students through a lessintimidating approach.IntroductionThe perception within the Department of Construction Management at East Carolina Universityis that students in the undergraduate degree program arrive with preconceived notions andexperiences about the construction industry. However, base competencies are quite often notproperly understood and frequently misunderstood as only labor and technical based by thestudents entering the study of Construction Management discipline.2 This can lead topredetermined notions that are difficult to identify

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Miller, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems; Timothy Boyd, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman

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Continuing Professional Development

analysis and on-orbit sensor characterization but has also managed technical teams as a technical team lead and a deputy Integrated Project Team lead within the SEIT (Systems Engineering Integration and Test) organi- zation. Boyd has presented his work at both academic and industry conferences. Furthermore, to address his passion for leadership development and community building, he kickstarted a chapter of Connect1NG; a professionally recognized yet non-traditional development program focused on engaging and assimilat- ing new employees to the workplace through leadership development activities and networking. He is currently one of two Western Region liaisons for the program. Boyd was also selected to be a part of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University; Richard A. Hall Jr., Cochise College; Phil Blake McBride, Eastern Arizona College; John H Bailey, Eastern Arizona College; Rakesh Pangasa, Arizona State University; Clark Vangilder, Central Arizona College; Russell Cox

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

) and (2) they have enthusiasticallyembraced our vision to reach out to students to attract them to exciting engineering careers. TheMETS project goals were to develops a supply-chain of high quality engineering students by 1)supporting the CCs’ HS student outreach activities, 2) supporting the CC engineering courses byproviding materials, tutoring, local engineering speakers, and tuition scholarships, 3) conducting Page 23.903.4“Be an Engineer” events on the CC campuses to CC students and local HS students and theirparents, 4) following up with classes/workshops/seminars - exploiting time-tested techniques,assignments, as well as one-on-one and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven W Villachica, Boise State University; Anthony Wayne Marker, Boise State University; Donald Plumlee, Boise State University; Linda Huglin; Amy Chegash, Boise State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

members of the engineering facultyattended the first meeting of the Sounding Board. One member from the engineering facultyattended the subsequent meeting. Subsequent informal conversations provided anecdotal dataindicating that faculty have other more pressing demands on their time—even when theresearchers buy the first round of appetizers at a local restaurant. The Sounding Board conceptproved inherently unsustainable.After the Sounding Board folded, the researchers continued with the redesign of a senior-levelThermal and Fluids Systems Design (ME 424) course that provides an application-orientedapproach to thermal and fluid science concepts using a systems design format. Evidence-basedredesign efforts included:  A focus on project- and

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley M. Forman, Northeastern University; Susan F Freeman, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

. Theyconcluded that soft skills can be taught, albeit not through traditional lecture means and a degreeof mentoring is recommended in the workplace, if possible. They tended to see the skillsenhanced through experiential project work. Similarly, Parker and Anderson10 at the Universityof Wisconsin deleted specific lectures on time management and teamwork skills in favor ofhaving students do appropriate project work to learn these same skills in a trial introduction tocivil and environmental engineering course. Vasko, et al11 concluded that once a projectexperience was concluded, soft skills such as life-long learning could be adequately assessed bystudent survey techniques. Tallon and Budny12 took a different approach in adding specificpublic speaking

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth (elisha) Mh Garcia, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Deanna L Bergondo, United States Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

energy for the course. This included showing the books available through thelibrary, and emphasizing the suggested, but not required, text by Boyle, Renewable Energy:Power for a Sustainable Future4. Then the website for Ocean Energy Systems5, an InternationalEnergy Agency technology initiative, was projected and some material was highlighted.2. Marine Energy Sources was presented by the science faculty co-instructor of the course.The presentation was a slight modification from the one used in 2009, so the content was thesame as noted in Table 2. The different types of energy that are found in the ocean werepresented, broken down into the categories of thermal (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, orOTEC), mechanical, including both potential

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin R Campbell, Robert Morris University; A. Clayton Pozzi

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

be taught at any undergraduate school with a rudimentaryelectronics laboratory using commercially available game technology.5 In this project, undergraduate students analyzed the game “The Force TM Trainer” fromStar Wars TM Science which contains a biosensor device for measuring neural activity andfunctions as a basic electroencephalogram (EEG).6 This game was developed by the game Page 23.1376.2company Uncle Milton in conjunction with NeuroSky Inc., which pioneered the low costbiosensor that allows forms of neural activity to be monitored and used for game play andresearch endeavors.7,8 By specifically examining “The Force TM Trainer

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Russell Feldhausen; Scott Bell; Daniel A. Andresen

uti-lized by meteorologists. We included the ability for the user to manipulate both the resolution ofthe model (number of points to calculate per inch on the map) and also the number of threads thesystem would employ to calculate these points.Students worked in pairs and were assigned a set of tests to run (yes, we parallelized the testing toimprove efficiency due to our limited time budget!). Results were entered into a grid on the boardand then graphed to compare the elapsed time vs resolution for a given number of threads.Technical AccomplishmentsAs a result of this project, we have developed a simple, easy to follow application that can demon-strate the benefits and limitations of using multiple threads to compute simulation data 4 . We

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Zahorian, Binghamton University; Mike Elmore, Binghamton University; Kyle J. Temkin, Binghamton University

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First-Year Programs

rate of engineering majors between freshmen and sophomore years is related to thestudent-disconnect between the difficult and theoretical math and science intensive curriculumwhich is common in most engineering programs and the engineering hands -on design-orientedtypes of things intended engineering majors are most interested in. Salient characteristics ofWTSN 111 and 112 include several lectures and labs on engineering design topics spanningseveral areas (such as basics of digital circuit design, an A rduino system design), small designprojects (such a simple mechanical design using Solid Edge), a larger design project (essentially Page

Conference Session

Manufacturing Partnerships

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Michael C. Ennis, Harris Corporation

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Manufacturing

2000. From KSC, Ennis moved to Washington DC for a position as Project Manager for Total Resource Management implementing Maximo Enterprise Computerized Main- tenance Management Software. Ennis moved back to Florida in 2004, where he went to work for Harris. Page 23.608.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Florida's Model for Industry-Technical Education PartnershipsAbstractThere is no question that industry and technical education programs have always understood thevalue that each can bring to the table with respect to the preparation of a skilled technicianworkforce

Conference Session

Computers and Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

8% 3-5 years 23% More than 5 years 67% Weekly hours you spend using the internet Less than 5 hours/week 10% 5-10 hours/week 22% 10-20 hours/week 30% Over 20 hours/week 38% Main purpose of internet use Research/Projects 88% Entertainment/games, music

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

will discuss its assigned case for tenminutes, with reporting out to the larger group before moving on to another case. Keyissues will be highlighted by the leader as the groups report.Online ResourcesThe online resources described below are taken from Bates et al., 201215 and include the EthicsCORE (Collaborative Online Resource Environment), the National Academy of Engineering’sOnline Ethics Center, the E3 project, and a list of other sites with ethics information.The Ethics CORE (Collaborative Online Resource Environment) project is an Internet portalsupporting ethics education in science, social science, engineering and math. It is beingdeveloped by National Center for Professional and Research Ethics at the University of Illinois-Urbana

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Tyler J Hertenstein, Ohio Northern University; Morgan Sperry; Debra Kay Gallagher, Ohio Northern University; Stacy McClelland

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

development of workshops tointroduce engineering, math and science into classrooms in the Dominican Republic.A team from ONU visited a series of three schools affiliated with Solid Rock International in theDominican to introduce hands-on math concepts to teachers from classrooms with 3 year oldsthrough high school. Over 100 teachers who teach over 2,200 students attended the program andwere introduced to the engineering design process and activities available on the IEEEtryengineering.org web site. These activities are typically part of the IEEE Teacher In ServiceProgram (TISP), which is designed to train engineers to hold in-service workshops for teacherswho then take hands-on engineering projects into their classroom. Teachers are provided

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne W. Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Michael G. Schrlau, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Patricia Iglesias, National Technical Institute for the Deaf; Kate N. Leipold, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Timothy Aaron Nichols, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

, in engineering courses, case studies have not been fully utilized. Thehypothesis of this project is that case studies will engage the interest of students, improve theirperformance in these courses, and ultimately improve their retention. Here, we report thedevelopment of a case study activity for Mechanics of Materials, a core engineering course in theMechanical Engineering undergraduate curriculum, to help engage and interest students,especially deaf and hard of hearing (HoH) students. Using a universal design approach, theactivity focused on the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse in 1981 and requires students toperform related design calculations and discuss the impact of the events that led up to theaccident. Initial assessment of a recent

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

Management and Human Resources. He sits on many university and community boards and advisory committees. Dr. Springer is internationally recognized, has authored numerous books and articles, and lectured on software development methodologies, management prac- tices and program management. Dr. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Exec- utive Development from Ball State University. He is certified as both a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).Dr. Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West LafayetteMr. Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Conference Session

Dynamics - Wow! They accelerate

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

project for that group of students. Other-wise the course is a standard lecture-based course with homework, midterms, projects, a finalexam, a limited number of think-pair-share exercises, and weekly Warm Up (WU) exercises forthe first eight weeks of the quarter.20 The WU exercises are all based upon CATS questions, sothey help to maintain an emphasis on conceptual issues in addition to problem solving technique.A total of 96 students registered for these two sections, but four did not attend the first day ofclass, so the study is based upon 92 responses to the questions shown in Figure 1 and subsequentwork done by those students. Each response to both questions was scored with a 1 or 0 for bothtranslation and rotation to indicate whether the

Conference Session

Statics - They can move at constant velocity!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

concept model is well suited for engineering education. In fact, there is a growingbody of knowledge and literature related to the exploration of threshold concepts in a variety ofengineering disciplines, including chemical, civil, electrical, and environmental2. In mechanicalengineering, and more specifically statics education, the current available literature focuses on Page 23.407.2the use of an online tutorial to engage students in exploring threshold concepts2.Threshold concepts have been found to share seven characteristics. Here, I provide someexplanation of each characteristic and how each relates to this project.  Integrative