Le, X., & Roberts, R. L., & Ma, G. G., & Connors, H. (2020, June), A Team Build-Test-Redesign Project in an Engineering Statics Course  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34075

\bibitem{asee_peer_34075}
  Le, X., \& Roberts, R. L., \& Ma, G. G., \& Connors, H. (2020, June), \emph{A Team Build-Test-Redesign Project in an Engineering Statics Course}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--34075

Xiaobin Le P.E., Richard L. Roberts, Gloria Guohua Ma, and Herb Connors.  "A Team Build-Test-Redesign Project in an Engineering Statics Course".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/34075 Internet.  29 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_34075}
  Xiaobin Le P.E., Richard L. Roberts, Gloria Guohua Ma, and Herb Connors.
  "A Team Build-Test-Redesign Project in an Engineering Statics Course".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/34075 Internet.  29 Jun, 2024

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AB  - A team build-test-redesign project in an engineering statics course
 Abstract:
The first core technical course in the mechanical engineering program at Wentworth Institute of Technology is engineering statics.  Typically, engineering statics is a lecture only format without any lab section.  Students passively listen to  lectures and then do their homework assignments.   It is commonly agreed that engineering statics is a difficult and stressful course and we need to motivate students for active learning by different approaches.  We have introduced a team design project in our engineering statics course.  We not only wanted to motivate students to actively learn statics but also help students to get familiar with the process of design projects and to accumulate some hands-on experience in conducting a design project. This project is to build-test-redesign wooden structure project.  In this project, students work in a team, build their first wooden structure and test it.  The maximum compressive force was recorded when the wooden structure fractures or loses stability.  Students were required to observe and describe the failure of their designs, and then to redesign and retest their wooden structures.  In the end, they were required to write a technical report. These activities helped them to get familiar with the process of a design project, gain some hands-on experience for conducting a design project, and motivate them to actively study engineering statics.  This paper will describe this team design project, its implementation, some samples of wooden structures constructed by students and test results.  The paper will also present survey data, data analysis, some discussions and interviews with students.  Based on students’ surveys and direct observations, students gained hands-on experience from the team project and had a better understanding of engineering statics. 
Keywords: Design project, Engineering statics, Tests on the prototype, Failure analysis, Team-workability, Wooden structure

AU  - Xiaobin Le P.E.
AU  - Richard L. Roberts
AU  - Gloria Guohua Ma
AU  - Herb Connors
CY  - Virtual On line 
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - A Team Build-Test-Redesign Project in an Engineering Statics Course
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--34075
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