Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shameel Abdulla, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Yasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Marwan Khraisheh, Texas A&M University, Qatar

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Paper ID #37941Creating and Implementing a Custom Chatbot in Engineering EducationMr. Shameel Abdulla, Texas A&M University, Qatar Shameel Abdulla is currently working as a Technical Laboratory Coordinator in the Mechanical Engineer- ing Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He joined the MEEN program in December 2012. He is responsible for coordinating experiments in the Controls and Measurements labs. Shameel’s professional interests include Product Design, Control System Design, and Mechatronics. He is a former student at Texas A&M University at Qatar.Dr. Yasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 8: Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Isaac Koduah Kumi, Old Dominion University; Stacie I Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University; Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Francisco Cima; Danielle Marie Rhemer, Old Dominion University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #42965Reflections of Undergraduate Engineering Students Completing a Cross-DisciplinaryRobotics Project with Preservice Teachers and Fifth Graders in an ElectromechanicalSystems CourseDr. Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa is an Associate Professor and director of the Collaborative Robotics and Adaptive Machines (CRAM) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Old Dominion University. Dr. Kaipa received his BE (Hons.)Dr. Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University Dr. Jennifer Kidd is a Master Lecturer in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Old

Conference Session

Simulations and Virtual Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J Cecil, Oklahoma State University

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Laboratories,Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Mozilla Foundation.REFERENCES [1] Forcael, E., Glagola, C., and González, V. (2012). ”Incorporation of Computer Simulations into Teaching Linear Scheduling Techniques.” J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract., 138(1), 21–30 [2] Adams, W.K., Reid, S., LeMaster, R., McKagan, S.B., Perkins, K.K., Dubson, M., and Wieman. C.E. (2008a). A study of educational simulations part I—Engagement and learning. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 19(3), 397-419.[3] Adams, W.K., Reid, S., LeMaster, R., McKagan, S.B., Perkins, K.K., Dubson, M., and Wieman, C.E. (2008b). A study of educational simulations part II—Interface design. Journal of Interactive Learning

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew D Goodman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Nicholas Robert Pozza; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; jean-charles stinville, University of Illionis Urbana-Champaign

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Materials Division (MATS)

-Champaign I am currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research team at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work with a group of wonderful and talented people at SCD’s Assessment and Research Laboratory to conduct research that informs and evaluates our practice of teaching and learning human-centered design in formal and informal learning environments. My Research focuses on studying students’ collaborative problem solving processes and the role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in STEM classrooms.Nicholas Robert PozzaDr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lina Wei, Peking University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

practicality,innovation, and problem solving. engineering PhD students typically progress frommastery of basic courses and laboratory skills to deeper involvement in specificprojects or research. This process involves various factors, such as mentoring,laboratory culture, teamwork, and even interaction with industry. Relevant studieshave shown that environmental factors play a significant role in the development ofprofessional identity among doctoral students.[16-18] Compared to other disciplines,engineering Ph.D. students may place more emphasis on practical applications andindustrial collaborations, which may also be part of their professional identity. Theprofessional identity of engineering students is the driving force that keeps themlearning and

Conference Session

Best of Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surupa Shaw, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

educational laboratories. ▪ Personalized Education o A satellite campus is typically unique in providing small-class sizes, a true collaborative learning environment, and an opportunity for personalized education for students. The class and campus environment creates an opportunity for faculty to engage in academic activities that can lead to developing professional relationships with students. The small class sizes allow the faculty to know their students on a more personal basis, which can lead to increasing the motivation of students. Meyer [12] conducted a literature review and survey and discovered that departments offering small class-sizes

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arkasama Bandyopadhyay, Texas A&M University; Phapanin Charoenphol, Texas A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

University. She earned her M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, engineering laboratory, and senior design studio courses. Her research interests include engineering education and targeted drug delivery. In 2022, she was awarded the ASME Best Teacher Award and earned the ACUE Certificate in Effective College Instruction. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Comparative Study on the Role of Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Assignments and Project-based Learning on Student Performance in an Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics CourseAbstractThis paper compares and evaluates the role of two group-based active learning

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Jay Porter; Alok Verma; Mohamed Gharib; Andrew Moore

faculty and courses already in place on the Galveston campus. However, substitutions have proven difficult due to differences in credit hours between similar courses, course laboratory components, and course learning objectives. • Faculty Resources: Without the course substitutions mentioned above, offering the MXET program on the Galveston campus would have required at least five new faculty lines in Galveston. In the face of the rapid growth in enrollment of ETID on the main campus over the past six years, it has not been possible to devote this number of lines to a new remote program.In light of these issues, it has been determined that the MXET – Electro-Marine degree currentlyenvisioned

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

David Satterwhite

their critical thinking skills and ensurethey completed the assignment.In addition to fostering critical thinking, I have been relying more on ship visits and projects toprovide practical hands-on experiences, and real-world applications. Traditionally, EPO-125 hasa laboratory component that requires system P&I (piping and instrumentation) diagrams for vitalsystems aboard our 500-foot training ship. Recently I’ve gone a step further by requiringstudents to visually trace out and research shipboard components outside of class, providepictures documenting their time in the ships engine room and allot time in class to discuss whatthey found and learned. Figure 2 below shows a group of students engaged in experientiallearning while tracing out

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anahita Ayasoufi, Auburn University; Golbou Makki; Amanda Sterling, Auburn University; Kyle D Schulze, Auburn University; ASHU SHARMA, Auburn University; Jeffrey C. Suhling, Auburn University; Daniel Kevin Harris

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

rubric used for assessing student performance in laboratory projects or in capstone design [7], and usage of American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) rubric on Lifelong Learning [8] outside of a course context. These tend to be limited and qualitative, for example [9] splits the learning profile into only 2 sub-outcomes and measures student performance in each outcome in projects using rubrics with qualitative levels of Unsatisfactory, Minimal, Adequate, or Exemplary. The paper [6] offers a rubric that breaks down the learning into three sub- components of identifying the needed knowledge, developing a learning plan, and applying

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard (Rick) Warren Blank, Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals; Stanislaw Tarchalski, The Johns Hopkins University

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Engineering for Professionals Corporate Engagement Lead. In that role he enables connections between corporations/agencies and Johns Hopkins to collaborate on advancing the skills of their employees. He was previously the MEM Program Manager. Mr. Blank was appointed an adjunct instructor at the Whiting School of Engineering in January 2009, after joining the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in October 2006. Until his retirement from APL in September 2021, he held leadership roles as APL’s Deputy Chief Quality Officer, served as the Chief of Strategy for the Force Projection Sector, lead program managers as the Deputy Business Area Executive for Undersea Warfare, and was the Ocean Data Acquisition Program

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph C. Musto; Vincent C. Prantil

sequence. The first courseis a four-credit, quarter-long course entitled Modeling and Numerical Analysis. This is a traditionalnumerical methods course, including topics such as matrix computation, root finding, numericalintegration, and numerical solution of differential equations [1]. This course also includes a laboratorycomponent, where modeling and numerical solution techniques are applied to a variety of mechanicaland thermal systems (such as a draining bottle, a heated and quenched object, and a spring-mass-damper system). Student feedback from this numerical methods course indicates two negative aspectsto this traditional approach to teaching numerical methods: • Despite the presence of a laboratory component, students cite a lack of

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Christos Valiotis

-time microcomputer- based laboratory tools,’’ Am. J. Phys. 58, 858–867 10. Sokoloff, D.R. (2004). Real Time Physics. John Willey and Sons, NY. 11. Hake, R.R. (1992). ‘‘Socratic pedagogy in the introductory physics laboratory,’’ Phys. Teach. 30, 546– 552. 12. Mazur, E. (1997). Peer Instruction:A User’s Manual. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 13. Christian, W. and Belloni, M. (2001). Physlets: Teaching Physics with Interactive Curricular Material. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 14. Van Heuvelen, A. (n.d.). ActivPhysics. Available online at http://wps.aw.com/aw_young_physics_11/ 0,8076,898588-nav_and_content,00.html7 15. Hestenes, D., Wells, M., and Swackhamer, G. (1992). ( "Force

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

importance of receiving guidance and assistance from a more experienced peer. Some graduate students might not be fully aware of what mentorship involves and the benefits that mentorship will provide to their professional development beyond the credit they will receive in the class for participating.Similar challenges were reported by Attarzadeh et al.19 while implementing a mentorshipprogram at the University of Houston where seniors were recruited to mentor students in lower-division laboratory courses. The authors proposed a set of strategies to improve the effectivenessof the program.Proposed StrategiesBelow are some of the strategies that will be implemented in our mentorship program based onour observations and suggestions by

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

of experiments steps andhad introduced some adjustments to their laboratory courses3, 6. As the group moved into thephase of formalizing a definition for these steps, each member shared what they did in their ownclasses. Group members critiqued each other’s laboratory assignments and had lively discussionsabout what really required students to “design” their experiments. Many discussions revolvedaround levels of proficiency for the rubric. For example for the “select the proper range ofindependent variables” step, the group discussed at great length the difference between“reasonable” and “optimal” ranges, giving examples from their own experiences. The resultingrubric was clearer and more generally applicable because of the input of this

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ray A. Luechtefeld; Steve E. Watkins

surprise that we find fraternity files for examinations, term paper writing services, and plagiarism. Such activities constitute a personally rational response to a reward system which pays off for grades rather than knowledge.”The use of extrinsic motivators, particularly grades, is ubiquitous throughout universities,even though their negative effects on student learning and interest have been documentedthrough hundreds of studies. One of the main findings, confirming Kerr’s comment on“displacement” via Cognitive Evaluation Theory 17 – 22 , is that extrinsic motivators likegrades tend to reduce interest and enjoyment by shifting perceptions of control towardexternal, rather than internal forces.While the laboratory and experimental

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Abu Asaduzzaman; Farshad Mashhadi; Manira Rani

organization (hardware) andhow to program it (software). Particular attention is given to the following areas: handlinginterrupts and interfacing analog/digital input/output devices. Laboratory work should givestudents hands-on experience. Pre-requisites include Introduction to Computer Architecture andProgramming in Assembly/C Languages. Examples of topics/activities include microprocessororganization, interrupt service routine (ISR), interfacing input/output signals, programmingADC, DAC/PWM, Sensors, etc. Development board (such as NXP DEMOEM board), softwarepackage (such as NXP CodeWarrior), and peripherals (such as LED, light sensor, temperaturesensors, motor, LCD display, etc.) are used to design and develop microprocessor basedembedded

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

will be impacted earlier and with a greater intensity that is otherwisepossible.Since its inception, the Pre-College Center has sought to become a driving force in providing increasingaccess to scientific and technological fields to all students. Through its careful and thorough planning thePre-College Center has been remarkably successful in reaching those populations that are traditionallyunderrepresented. The Center’s models for success bring academic opportunities to children who needthem most in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas, as well asdevelopment and dissemination of resource materials, standards-based classroom lessons and practices,laboratory experiments and demonstrations to teachers to integrate

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fangyang Shen; Bing Qi; Hong Li; Arvid Friberg

“An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Sequence inElectrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Assessment Results” IEEETRANSACTIONS IN EDUCATION, VOL 43, 2 MAY 2000.[5] L. Barry, J. Ekstrom, S.Gorka, G. Hislop, R. Kimali, E. Lawson, et al., “CurriculumGuidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Technology”, Association forComputing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society, Information Technology, 2008.[6] www.acm.org.[7] Shiao-Li Tsao, “A Practical Implementation Course of Operating Systems: Curriculum Designand Teaching Experiences,” Shiao-Li Tsao, 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel andDistributed Systems, 2008.[8] J. Rugelj, J. Marzo, S. Knockaert, R. Van, J Salonen, K Bjorn, K Vaz de Carvalho

Conference Session

WIP: Classroom Innovations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of Texas at Austin

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

definition of stakeholders simplifies the contextual information,as some populations could be more affected by a spill. Looking for a deeper understanding ofthe problem and construction of a more accurate model of the design context, the instructorsscaffolded the team to think more in-depth about the design context. By the last deliverable,the team specifically characterized the impacted communities as "including the communitiesof Sandia National Laboratories, the Albuquerque International Sunport, and those in nearbyneighborhoods."Regarding the requirements, the team identified legal, technical, social, and environmentalrequirements of the design problem. Table 3 summarizes the requirements the team definedin their first and last deliverables. The

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

F.T. Fisher; R.S. Besser; K. Sheppard; C.H. Choi; E.H. Yang

§ Photonics properties ofcomponents of this aspect of the course take place in themulti-user Micro Device Laboratory (MDL), a class 100 clean Nanophotonics nanomaterialsroom facility available to nanotechnology researchers, which § Optical tweezerscontains a complete suite of micro/nanofabrication and § Photonic crystals: a band gapcharacterization equipment. for photons § Introduction: how biologyThe second thread of the course entails characterization and “feels” at the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Rutwik Dehade, Texas A&M University; Glen Miller

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University. Dr. Johnson received his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on production economics, engineering education, and design tools. Dr. Johnson has over 100 peer reviewed publications and several patents. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and industry.Prof. Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University Dr. Banerjee is a Professor in the William Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Grant Crawford; Elizabeth Bristow

[8]. Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference, April 29-30, 2011, Farmingdale State College, SUNYProgress was slowed only a few years later by the rise to power of the Taliban in 1995. Talibanleaders closed girls’ schools in areas they controlled [8]. In these areas and elsewhere, basic andhigher education continued to decline as the country was torn by insurgency and ethnic fighting[7].At present, Afghanistan is missing many of its former lead academics, who were killed or fledduring the turmoil [7]. In many fields and at many universities, higher education curriculum wasfrozen in the 1970s and the curricula, textbooks, and laboratory techniques are now decades old.Technical and

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas J. Impelluso

algorithms to multiply matrices. Mechanical engineering coding exampleswere not integrated into the course; they were presented without instructional design forethought.2.2 Course delivery Prior to Fall 2006 the class met physically and the exclusive method of content deliverywas through face to face lecture. Instruction was provided in a workstation laboratory. Thislaboratory was a dedicated computational resource cluster of 30 UltraSPARC models 170 and170E workstations using the Sun Grid Engine software from Sun Microsystems. Each stationin the cluster had 128MB of physical memory, and contained one 167MHz US-I CPU. Theworkstations were interconnected using high-speed network infrastructure from Myricom. The instructor taught at

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

student’s points of view. Areas of future research will also be discussed.Review of Literature Most engineering schools use team based projects, or laboratory assignments to helpstudents develop skills necessary for their professional careers. Teamwork skills havetraditionally been developed by assigning students to teams. To some extent, this approach doesproduce results, but a better approach was undertaken at the University of Dayton[4] wherestudent teams were instructed on teambuilding and leadership. One of their suggestions was notonly to instruct, but to give students opportunities to work on teams where students refine theirskills as they mature though the engineering program. Many researchers have struggled with thedifficult task of

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

DingXin Cheng; Joel Arthur; Albert M. Johnson

modules have been developed for a variety of undergraduate CivilEngineering courses, including the following areas: • Introduction to Civil Engineering Design • Mechanics of Materials and Materials Testing Laboratory • Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering • Contracts and Specifications • Environmental Engineering • Solid Waste Management • Reinforced Concrete Design • Transportation Engineering and Pavement Materials Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 412The following sections describe the objectives, scope, and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

teamworking with the US Air Force developed Matlab models for thermal analysis of small satellitesunder high heat loads. The team presented their project at the 2010 Small Satellite Conference in(Do we know where this happened?). The team funded by Boeing worked at the Land Air andthe Space Robotics (LASR) laboratory. They developed calibration models for the Phasespacecamera and designed and manufactured hardware for testing Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)prototypes.The Multidisciplinary Experiences for Undergraduates (MEU) was established in fall 2010 withfocus to expand the SEI and offer undergraduates multidisciplinary team project experiences thatcover a wide range of engineering applications. Currently, two MEU projects have been offeredto students

Conference Session

Technological Literacy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Lauren Aprill; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, and designsystems. The goal of the class is to help students who are not from engineering background tounderstand how everyday things work. This includes engines, electricity, magnetism,communication, manufacturing, energy systems, and other technological items such as phones,the internet, and other related topics of interest to the students. This class does include hands-ondemonstrations and laboratory exercises.Implementation of Concept MapsIn the Survey of How Things Work, the students carry out an exercise to determine the principleof operation of a technical system and then apply this knowledge to analyze a different butrelated situation. The exercise involves a ring thrower apparatus based on Lenz’s law. Studentsoperate the device and

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan L. Hart, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering

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Civil Engineering

AC 2011-540: AN INNOVATIVE MECHANISM TO ESTABLISH POSI-TIVE ASSOCIATION WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF CIVIL ENGINEER-ING CURRICULUMMegan L. Hart, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Hart is an assistant professor in the department of Civil Engineering at Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO. Dr. Hart worked professionally as an environmental engineer in the areas of stormwater, wastewater and drinking water prior to joining St. Louis University. Her area of applied laboratory expertise is stormwater, geotechnics, membrane design, shallow groundwater and structural interactions including remediation, and structures with unsaturated soil interactions. Her pedagogical pursuits include the first year experience

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

ofimpacts and collisions [6].The impact process between a ball and a hard surface involves a change, albeit temporary, in theshape of the ball [1]. A frame-by-frame study of the pictures of bouncing tennis balls obtainedusing high-speed cameras (2000 frames per second) in our laboratory demonstrated that thisprocess consists of four separate and distinct phases: initial contact, deformation of the originalshape, restitution and recovery of the shape of the ball, and separation and takeoff [6]. Page 22.218.2In general, impulses that act on the ball during the deformation phase are different in magnitudeand direction from those that arise during