Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juanita Jo Matkins, College of William and Mary; John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates; Eugene Brown, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary; Nancy West, College of William and Mary; Robert Stiegler, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division; Kirk Jenne, Office of Naval Research

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

a professional educational programevaluator who is the second author of this paper.The VDP Steering Committee agreed that the core elements of the program on which itsevaluation would be based were: 1. To generate and sustain the interest and excitement of adolescents in careers in mathematics, physics, engineering and or other sciences; 2. To enhance the effectiveness of science and mathematics instruction; 3. To strengthen family and school support for students’ (particularly females and minority students) achievement and interests in career paths in mathematics, science, technology and engineering; 4. To develop a cadre of Navy scientists and engineers for continuous outreach to educational communities as a

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

the CE program criteria. The momentum of Policy 4652 and efforts to changethe NCEES model law3 had to be considered since they called for a broaderundergraduate education with the technical depth accomplished through a masters degreeor thirty credit hours of post baccalaureate study before sitting for the Professional Exam(P.E.). With an eye on the future and an image of what the East Texas constituencies Page 14.1105.3were asking for, the program outcomes (Table 1) and resulting curriculum weredeveloped (Fig 1). Table 1: UT Tyler CE Program OutcomesGraduates:1. Can apply knowledge of traditional mathematics, science, and

Conference Session

Statics - They can move at constant velocity!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Michael Patrick Hannigan, University of Colorado - Boulder

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Mechanics

 on  the  worksheet.   5  –  Evaluate   Exit  tickets  this  week  will  include:   *Name   *ME-­‐ID   *Feeling  about  upcoming  exam  (1  –  relaxed,  2  –  a  little  nervous,  3  –  ambivalent,  4  –  somewhat   stressed,  5  –  very  stressed)   *Are  you  planning  to  attend  Statics  review  session  this  Sunday?    (Y/N)   *  Would  you  expect  to  see  a  problem  like  the  one  posed  in  this  recitation  on  your  exam?  The worksheets for the Body-Based and Traditional sections for week 6 were identical with the

Conference Session

Engineering as the STEM Glue

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Candace Walkington, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Rachaya Srisurichan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Martha W. Alibali

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

,including provisions for college credit, and commitment to an integrated program acrossacademic and technical education curricula, PLTW is an important exemplar for studying thedegree to which integrated, and conceptually based pre-engineering programs are implementedin public high school classrooms.The Research FocusThe focus of this research is to develop the theoretical and methodological tools for describingthe STEM integration process and articulating the curricular expectation, students’ struggles andteachers’ remedial efforts to foster cohesion. The approach taken here is to examine instructionas it unfolds in the classroom setting. Video (often 2 cameras per session) serves as the primarydata source, which is then systematically coded and

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University; Avneet Hira, Boston College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in engineering education and its adverse realizations. Engineering issocio-technical in nature i.e. there is no engineering that is solely technical, and bydichotomizing or picking a side we break up a complex conceptualization into one that is neitherauthentic nor realistic. By sitting with tension as a guiding metaphorical framework for thisstudy, we attempt to break up the dualism that exposes itself in engineering education.Our discussions in this paper are informed by our ontology or sense of being. Such explorationsin ontology are not traditional to engineering. We bring in this construct from the liberal artsbecause of the lack of such a device in engineering scholarship. We discuss: 1) our conception ofthe soul of engineering

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas Patrick Langhoff, Skyline College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

in science and engineering.Prof. Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University Wenshen Pong received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He joined the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University in 1998. He teaches courses in Civil/Structural Engineering. Dr. Pong is a registered Professional Engineer in California. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineers Association of California. He has published over fifty technical papers in the areas of Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering. Dr. Pong has been the Director of the School of Engineering at SFSU with 20 full-time faculty and over 25 part-time

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Session 2131 A Pilot Investigation of Functional Roles on Engineering Student Teams Ms. Jeannie Brown Leonard, Dr. Janet A. Schmidt, Ms. Paige E. Smith, & Dr. Linda C. Schmidt University of Maryland, College ParkIntroductionThe project team has become a primary learning environment for engineering students.Engineering education accreditation1 has been revised to include the ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams as a required student learning outcome in response to industryidentification of shortcomings in team skills2. Unlike

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

their experiences as described as part of the interview wereassigned to the category. An overview of the categories of description is given in Table 1. Inaddition, the pseudonyms of the students whose experiences comprised that category are given. Table 1. Categories of Description of Students' Experience of Human-Centered Design13Category ofDescription(Human- SummaryCentered Designis...) Design is not human-centered, but technology-centered design. The focusCategory 1: of the design is on the technology and solving the technical problem, not onTechnology- the “others” or humans. The approach lacks both an understanding of theCentered users and an appreciation for the users’ knowledge

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

totransfer new knowledge; to transfer scientific and technical know-how; and, most importantly, totransfer an innovative “can do” attitude into our general society. Undergraduates (juniors andseniors) and graduate students in chemistry, physics, engineering, biology, and business are thetargeted students for this program. Small and developing technology based businesses in the stateof Arkansas are the targeted customers of the improvement process.Throughout the nation small businesses are responsible for our economic growth. One significantarea for small business development is in science and technology. In this area, researchuniversities have played a large role through its students and faculty in establishing start-upcompanies. For example, many

Conference Session

K-12 Teachers: PD, Implementation, and Beyond

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Leigh McFarland Kendall, Tufts University; Kristen Bethke Wendell Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Boston

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Data were collected from three different sources: (1) theteachers’ applications and background surveys from their initial acceptance into theprogram, (2) a focus group session at the conclusion of the program, and (3) an onlinesurvey at the conclusion of the program. The items on the applications and surveys tookon several forms, including multiple-choice questions, questions requiring numericalanswers (such as years teaching or current grade level), and open response questions.The hour-long focus group was moderated by two researchers, who asked teachers toshare their opinions about several different topics relating to the experimental curriculum.For the written and verbal discussions, the results were coded using an open codingmethod first

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

Session 2260 Working Toward the Successful Deployment of Post -graduate Research Students on University-Industry Collaborative R&D Projects T.A. Barnes, I.R. Pashby & A.M. Gibbons. Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, England.1. IntroductionAgainst a background of increasing international competition and rapid technological change,governments are actively encouraging collaboration as a means of improving innovationefficiency and thereby enhancing wealth creation 1, 2 . Collaboration provides companies withthe means by which to advance

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

differently during the different stages of the design process. As such,the rubric divides the design process into three stages (i.e., Requirements/Problem Definition,Concept Generation/Development, and Technology Integration), which can be modifieddepending upon the design project, and a fourth category for the overall design.Each design stage is examined more closely using questions about the incorporation ofstakeholder considerations at that stage, 1. Did the student(s) state an intention to incorporate stakeholder concerns at this phase? 2. Did the student(s) apply a design process at this stage that could include stakeholder concerns? 3. Was the student(s) successful in integrating stakeholder concerns?These

Conference Session

Research, Innovation and Careers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge E Loyo Rosales, Rice University; Armineh Noravian, Arizona State University; Alison Cook-Davis, Arizona State University; Carrie A. Obenland, Rice University; Carolyn Nichol, Rice University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

NEWT’s logicmodel, and they are to (1) provide community college students, especially from underrepresentedminorities in science and engineering (URM), with professional research experience in NEWTlaboratories, (2) improve the program participants' communication skills, specifically posterelaboration and presentation, (3) increase the number of URM students choosing to pursuecareers or graduate studies in NEWT-related STEM fields, and (4) improve the mentorship skillsof NEWT graduate students and postdocs participating as mentors. The NEWT REU program isrun by NEWT staff from Rice and the participants are placed for ten weeks in NEWTlaboratories at ASU, Rice, and UTEP, where they are generally mentored by graduate students.From the inception of

Conference Session

Transfer and Transitions

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park; Shannon Hayes Buenaflor, University of Maryland, College Park; Danielle Melvin Koonce, University of Maryland; Christin Jacquelyne Salley, University of Maryland, College Park; Sharon Fries-Britt, University of Maryland, College Park; Darryll J. Pines, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

preliminary findings from interviews with three Blackstudents who started their academic careers at several community colleges in a Mid-Atlanticstate before transferring to the flagship institution of that same state. Interview transcripts wereanalyzed and coded by different members of the research team to document rich themes. This research is part of a larger-scale, three-year, NSF-funded qualitative study, whichexamines the academic trajectories of two distinct groups of Black engineering majors: 1) Blacksborn and educated in the United States and 2) Those born and educated in other countries. Bylooking at these two communities, we will build upon past literature that disaggregates theexperiences of Black STEM students who represent multiple

Conference Session

FPD 10: Teamwork

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oguz Hanoglu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aladar Horvath, Ivy Tech Community College; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

questionsabout their TA and peer feedback experience. Relevant guiding questions from the studentinterview protocol are provided in Table 1. Two Team A students and three Team B studentscompleted the interview sessions. All sessions were audio-recorded.Table 1Relevant questions asked to students in semi-structured interviews (From the interview protocol) Part 1: Experiences responding to feedback - Can you please describe for me the type of feedback you received from your TA? - How did your team respond to this feedback? Would you have done anything differently if you were responding by yourself? - Did you encounter any challenges in responding to the feedback from

Conference Session

Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Models, Models, & More Models

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paulina Robles, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Gabrielle Rose Favro, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Abby Lentz

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Tables 4A and4D of the NDS Supplement. To address this fundamental concept early in the course, the firstclass session involves a demonstration where the instructor has a bundle of drinking straws andapplies tension, compression, and shear both parallel and perpendicular to grain, Figure 1 showsthe demonstration for compression parallel and perpendicular to grain. Cross-referencing eachtype of stress with design stress values in the NDS helps the class understand the hierarchy ofwood strengths relative to force and wood fiber direction. Students can observe the significantdifference in capacity based on direction of loading, whether parallel or perpendicular to grain.To follow that activity and provide an opportunity for the class to directly

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division: Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

projects. Now in its third year of continued refinement and analysis, theUniversity is offering 5 sections of the 8 credit hour course (Full Cornerstone) and 20 sections ofa version with 2 separate 4 credit hour courses (Split Cornerstone) that run over the fall andspring semester. Each section is populated with approximately 30 first-year students from a totalfirst-year class size exceeding 700 students.With two versions implemented over the past two years, there has been enough redesign towarrant more discussion. The course redesign has been driven by feedback and evidence,fundamentally following the design process we teach in the course. The data used to drive thisredesign has come from four sources: 1) a survey of students in both the

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Disability Experiences & Empathy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henriette D Burns, Washington State University, Vancouver; Kristin Lesseig, Washington State University Vancouver

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

can influence student interest and impact perception.References1. New Generation Science Standards. Retrieved on February 14, 2017 from http://www.nextgenscience.org2. Burns H, Lesseig K, Staus N. Girls Interest in STEM. In: Frontiers in Education Annual Conference, pp. 1-5, 2016.3. Corbett C, Hill C. Solving the Equation. The Variables of Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing. Washington, DC: American Association of University Women, 2015.4. Ma Y. Gender Differences in the Path Leading to a STEM Baccalaureate. Social Science Quarterly, vol.92, no.5, pp.1169-1190, 2011.5. Cunningham BC, Ralph J, Hoyer KM. Stats in Brief: Gender Differences in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Kelley Walczak, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods

competenciesnecessary for the next generation of engineers, suggests that future engineers will need to“possess a working framework upon which high ethical standards and a strong sense ofprofessionalism can be developed,”1 and the Accreditation Board of Engineering andTechnology (ABET) has stressed the importance of colleges and universities providing studentswith effective ethics engineering education2.Despite these calls, ethics education efforts have differing levels of success. In another report,NAE expressed concern that students are not being well-educated to understand the “social andethical implications” of their technical skills3, and empirical evidence suggests that some of thepractices used in engineering ethics education, including case studies and

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David J. Dimas, The University of California, Irvine; Faryar Jabbari, University of California, Irvine; Jia Frydenberg, University of California, Irvine

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Mechanical Engineering

activities. The latter is thekind generally called “hybrid,” and was a better fit to the actual situation studied.Faculty PerspectiveAt most colleges and universities promotions and tenure are a function of research, publications,teaching and service. In a study of tenure and merit pay, Kasten reports that "teaching is secondin importance to research" and that "adequate teaching is a necessary but not sufficient conditionfor tenure."1 Teaching is a key job requirement and indeed many faculty report that thisinteraction with students is one of the reasons they chose an academic career. However, as juniorfaculty often lament - the realities of supporting the many aspects of research and the strongrelationship between success in these areas and success

Conference Session

Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Thomas De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Cornell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

14 individuals, which we regarded assufficient to gain a general picture of how change processes occurred at those institutions. Withinthe limits of what we can disclose for reasons of confidentiality, the general distribution of ourinterview subjects is provided in Table 1, above.Our semi-structured interview protocol (fixed questions with an opportunity to ask follow-onquestions), in its different versions, consisted of between 13-17 open ended questions with pre-scripted follow-on questions for several of the basic questions where the underlying issues werealready known. (The number of basic questions varied because our protocol called forperiodically adapting our questions based on interim data analysis.) The data from this article

Conference Session

Simulation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei, Kettering University; Richard A. Scott, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

" is studied. The response of a linearsingle degree of freedom spring-mass system to a pulse can be made identically zero for all timesgreater than a certain one by the application of a second pulse with a suitable phase difference.Some effects of spring non-linearities on the linear model predictions are given. Assessment wasachieved by noting students better and fuller understanding of the basics.IntroductionOther articles on the use of simulation in engineering education exist. See for example, the workof Fraser et al. 1 on simulation in fluid mechanics. Questions from the Fluid Mechanics ConceptsInventory 2 (FMCI) identified some student conceptual difficulties. A simulation involving theseconcepts was developed and its efficacy was

Conference Session

Faculty Tools

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher P. Pung, Grand Valley State University; John Farris, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

students to modify theirbehavior to improve their effectiveness on teams. This paper describes an attempt to measureprogress towards the goal of leveraging peer and self-evaluations to change student behavior.The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME)1 was developedusing extensive university research. A web-based survey at www.catme.org makes it possible tocollect data on team-member effectiveness in five areas that research has shown to be important. 1. Contributing to the team’s work 2. Interacting with teammates 3. Keeping the team on track 4. Expecting quality work 5. Having relevant knowledge, skills and abilitiesThis tool was implemented in a junior level product design class. The

Conference Session

Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue-min Zhao, China University of Mining and Technology

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International

ability.Key Words: engineering practice; educational reform; mineral processing engineering Page 22.377.2                                                          Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 516 83995505 Email address: ymzhao@cumt.edu.cn (Y. Zhao), llaoduan@126.com ( C. Duan)    1. Introduction Education on mineral processing engineering has been given a high priority in China.More than 30 universities set up the major of mineral processing engineering. Theseuniversities cultivate lots of mineral processing engineering professions which meet thedemand of

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

Session 2225 Integrating Creative Problem Solving and Engineering Design Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University J. William Shelnutt, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc.Abstract“Engineering design is the communication of a set of rational decisions obtained with creativeproblem solving for accomplishing certain stated objectives within prescribed constraints.” Howcan engineering design be taught within the framework of this definition—what are the goals andbuilding blocks? An innovative textbook demonstrates an integrated

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter J., III Gomes; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

Session 1320 Teaching Real-World DSP Using MATLAB and the TMS320C31 DSK Cameron H. G. Wright Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Air Force Academy, CO Thad B. Welch, Michael G. Morrow Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MD Walter J. Gomes III Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Johm W. Duggan; Francis J. Hopcroft

discipline; 2. understand issues pertinent to their profession’s ethics and standards and be able to incorporate these values into the engineering design process; 3. be prepared to seek professional registration; 4. be able to communicate their thinking and ideas effectively to members of the technical community as well as the general public; 5. have the desire to develop their skills and knowledge continuously through professional development, advanced graduate education and other appropriate creative activities; 6. understand and be able to solve for the needs of their clients and society at large; and, 7. have developed a sense of the marketplace in which their professional

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Werner

Session 1647 Using the Internet in a Computer Science Senior Projects Course Michael Werner Department of Computer Science, Electronics and Mechanical Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115Abstract:Project courses in Computer Science require a student to discover a feasible software project, doindependent research to see how his/her project fits in with similar and related projects doneelsewhere, acquire the necessary knowledge and tools to build

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

Sample Image from Safety. Page 4.593.2The New ProjectThe general goal of this project is to produce a series of VR-based laboratory accidents that willallow students to experience first-hand the importance and potential consequences of laboratorysafety. A preliminary set of safety rules has been selected as shown in Table 1, based uponcriteria of relevance to a wide range of lab situations, potential consequences, and adaptability toa VR environment. For each of these rules it is intended to develop two versions of an accidentsimulation Ð One in which the user disobeys the rule and suffers the consequences, and one inwhich the user obeys the rule

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Wieslaw M. Szydlowski

Session 1566 Adjustment Calculus - an Interesting Part of Kinematics Wieslaw M. Szydlowski University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstractLittle known method is explained for finding velocity and acceleration from positions of a pointwhich are equidistant in time. The adjustment calculus can be a powerful tool to reduce theeffect of measurements errors on the estimations of the velocity and the acceleration. In-classexercises in kinematics may brings fun to all participants.1 IntroductionThe general purpose of a mechanism