Conference Session

Technical Session 3a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Estelle M Eke, California State University, Sacramento

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Pacific Southwest Section

theanimations and researched other programs available to all students in the college of engineering.Civil and mechanical engineering students enrolled in the dynamics course have completed acomputer-aided design course such as autocad or Solidworks. Working Model 2D [1] wasselected as the adequate software as it builds on the students’ CAD skills. The availability ofWorking Model 2D animations complemented the app. The design of the layout was primarilythat of the author with minor suggestions provided by a graduate student assistant [2] in thecollege of computer science. The graduate student selected Visual Basic as an acceptablesoftware and developed the code. The free-body diagrams, kinetic diagrams, and the feedbackthat was to be given to the

Conference Session

Technical Session 2a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Dean Arakaki, Cal Poly State University

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Pacific Southwest Section

will not retain subjects whichhave limited real-world relevance. This is especially true for engineering (applied science)majors.To overcome these retention issues, the author has developed a sequence of lecture videos thatexplains electromagnetics-related math and physics topics using practical examples includingwaves on ropes and Matlab wave animations, standing wave effects (cell phone reception), andmicrowave ovens (water heating by resonance). Through video-captured simulations and in-classdemonstrations, it is hoped that students will link electromagnetics concepts to modern wirelesssystems and thereby retain these concepts in long-term memory.A difficult topic in this course is graphical methods involving Smith Charts. Students