Papadopoulos, C., & Santiago-Román, A. I., & Portela-Gauthier, G., & Ramírez, R. M., & Roldan, P. P. (2012, June), Leveraging Simulation Tools to Deliver Ill-structured Problems in Statics and Mechanics of Materials   Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21657

\bibitem{asee_peer_21657}
  Papadopoulos, C., \& Santiago-Román, A. I., \& Portela-Gauthier, G., \& Ramírez, R. M., \& Roldan, P. P. (2012, June), \emph{Leveraging Simulation Tools to Deliver Ill-structured Problems in Statics and Mechanics of Materials }
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21657

Christopher Papadopoulos, Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, Genock Portela-Gauthier, Rosaurelis Marín Ramírez, and Paola Pacheco Roldan.  "Leveraging Simulation Tools to Deliver Ill-structured Problems in Statics and Mechanics of Materials ".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21657 Internet.  07 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21657}
  Christopher Papadopoulos, Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, Genock Portela-Gauthier, Rosaurelis Marín Ramírez, and Paola Pacheco Roldan.
  "Leveraging Simulation Tools to Deliver Ill-structured Problems in Statics and Mechanics of Materials ".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21657 Internet.  07 May, 2024

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AB  -                                   NSF Poster:         Leveraging Simulation Tools to Deliver Ill-Structured Problems                     in Statics and Mechanics of MaterialsThis poster will represent the philosophy, strategy, and goals of a recently funded NSF TUESproject Leveraging Simulation Tools to Deliver Ill-Structured Problems: Enhancing Student Problem-Solving Ability in Statics and Mechanics of Materials.This project will foster student problem-solving ability in Statics and Mechanics of Materials bycreating and delivering a new set of ill-structured problems – that is, problems that are open-ended, have multiple solutions, and require students to formulate assumptions. Such problemswill engage students in design or design-like activities and will accelerate the development oftheir engineering expertise. The problems will be delivered as modules in a two semestersequence of Statics and Introductory Mechanics of Materials. The modules will use modernsimulation tools to create a problem-solving environment that will engage students in matureinvestigation of problems and their underlying concepts and applications. However, thesimulation activities will be complemented by usual hand-calculation analysis problems. Thisinterplay between hand calculation and simulation will provide students with examples that insome cases will confirm the traditional mechanics formulae and in other cases will expose theirlimitations. Through this process, students will also learn the basics of validation andverification of simulation results.The modules will be developed in consultation with a panel of experts that will participate in aDelphi process. In the Delphi process, both the content/topics and the style of delivery of themodules will be determined through a structured sequence of brainstorming andranking/selection activities. For the purposes of this project, the topics will be selected in a waythat favors preparation for the subsequent Civil Engineering courses Advanced Mechanics ofMaterials and Structural Analysis.The pedagogical efficacy of the modules created in this project, including the development ofdeclarative, procedural, and conceptual knowledge, will be measured over the duration of a“curricular strand” consisting of the four course sequence Statics, Introductory Mechanics ofMaterials, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, and Structural Analysis. An experimental cohort ofstudents will be selected to complete these four courses sequentially; they will receive instructionwith the new modules in the first two courses, and receive regular instruction in the remainingtwo. The performance of these students on a variety of instruments – including standardizedconcept inventories, course exercises, and attitude surveys – will be measured. Results will becompared with a control group of students who take the same four courses, but who do notreceive direct instruction with the new modules.Results of this project will be disseminated through specialized workshops that will be developedto train other colleagues to use the modules. The workshops will begin locally at theinvestigators’ home institution and will be subsequently offered at national conferences such asASEE or FIE. The project will be undertaken at a Hispanic-serving institution that also has ahigh female enrollment. The methods and results of this project will therefore address a diverseaudience.
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