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Effective PocketLab Sensor Use in an Engineering Dynamics Course

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual On line

Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

Learning Mechanics Through Experimentation

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Mechanics

Page Count

12

DOI

10.18260/1-2--34500

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https://peer.asee.org/34500

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508

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Timothy Aaron Wood The Citadel Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-3926-7314

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Timothy A Wood is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel. He acquired a Bachelor's in Engineering Physics Summa Cum Laude with Honors followed by Civil Engineering Master's and Doctoral degrees from Texas Tech University. His technical research focuses on the intersection of soil-structure interaction and structural/geotechnical data. He encourages students pushing them toward self-directed learning through reading, and inspiring enthusiasm for the fields of structural and geotechnical engineering. Dr. Wood aims to recover the benefits of classical-model, literature-based learning in civil engineering education.

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Abstract

PocketLab sensors effectively contribute to the engineering dynamics classroom by illustrating fundamental kinematic relationships, allowing students to measure kinematic properties, confirming theoretical predictions, and calculating reactions. Though developed for K-12 education, PocketLab sensors are small, relatively inexpensive devices that allow users to record acceleration, range, and angular velocity through a Bluetooth connection to a smart phone, tablet, or laptop. The real-time presentation of data illustrates the relationship between acceleration, velocity, and position while also allowing students to calculate related reactions and forces driving motion. A collection of example problems and demos involving the PocketLab sensor illustrate various dynamics concepts. Student survey results indicate the usefulness of in-class demonstrations with the PocketLabs for reinforcing dynamics concepts.

Wood, T. A. (2020, June), Effective PocketLab Sensor Use in an Engineering Dynamics Course Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34500

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