Conference Session

Mechanics Division (MECHS) Technical Session 1B

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne L Chang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mikayla R Hoyle, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Melany Denise Opolz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jean-Christophe Raymond-Bertrand, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Nikhil Chandra Admal, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Thomas Golecki, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Kellie M Halloran, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Shelby Hutchens, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Callan Luetkemeyer, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Brian Mercer, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mariana Kersh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

skills and greater confidence and comfort in working withcomputation tools for solving complex engineering problems. More details on this work can befound in [6].Reform Project 3: Open-access online interactive reference pages and course resourcesThis initiative aimed to develop current course resources into open educational tools that otherhigher education institutions can adapt. This effort not only provided campus students withenhanced learning materials but also extended the benefits to a broader academic community. Theproject collaborated with the local community college to help improve transfer student readiness.This partnership served as a model for ensuring that transfer students are well-prepared foruniversity-level coursework. Resource

Conference Session

Mechanics Division (MECHS) Technical Session 5

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie A Brown, Utah State University; Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

Paper ID #47463WIP: Statics in Space - Developing a Dungeons and Dragons Inspired StaticsCourseLeslie A Brown, Utah State University Leslie Brown is an Engineering Education PhD student at Utah State University. She recently completed a Master’s degree in Engineering Education at Utah State University with thesis focus on training high school STEM teachers to implement engineering curriculum into their classrooms.Dr. Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University - Engineering Education Marissa Tsugawa is an assistant professor at Utah State University who leverages mixed-methods research to explore neurodiversity and identity and

Conference Session

Problem- and Project-based Learning in Engineering Mechanics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Hasz, Carthage College

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

provide a potential use for it.This work-in-progress paper describes the motivation and development process of these labs, aswell as preliminary lab examples and planned assessment.There is substantial discussion in the engineering community about the importance of includingill-structured problems into curriculum within engineering education, as these problems betterrepresent the experiences post-graduation [1]–[7]. However, past work has found that textbookproblems are rarely ill-structured in form and that students may be rarely exposed to ill-structured problems within their engineering curriculum [1], [2], [5]. One area in which ill-structured problems are easier to incorporate are within lab experiences. Student laboratoryexperiences are